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Most discussion I've seen about "ai" centers around what the programs are "trying" to do, or what they "know" or "hallucinate". That's a lot of agency being given to advanced word predictors.
That's also anthropomorphizing.
Like, when describing the path of least resistance in electronics or with water, we'd say it "wants" to go towards the path of least resistance, but that doesn't mean we think it has a mind or is conscious. It's just a lot simpler than describing all the mechanisms behind how it behaves every single time.
Both my digital electronics and my geography teachers said stuff like that when I was in highschool, and I'm fairly certain neither of them believe water molecules or electrons have agency.