I have gotten a lot of comments saying "you don't need to personify them or assert they have interiority" when *literally I spent a whole paragraph saying* "there is no requirement for personification for this to be possible"

So I am just gonna say, I know it's a sensitive time, people are responding reflexively from what they are used to seeing, but please re-read that paragraph.

It's hard enough to write about these things as serious issues right now and understand their implications. I *am* looking at things carefully from as many sides as I can. I understand why it's frustrating. We're talking about machines that literally operate off of personification. Even my best attempt at not doing so is going to run into the challenge that that's literally how they operate, as story machines.

To correctly describe their behavior is to describe something that personifies itself. It's tricky. But we have to talk about and understand what's happening right now to confront the moment.