Here's another snippet of the Brain-Computer Metaphor essay I'm working on. I'm finding it a little difficult to strike the right tone on this one. Nonetheless, below is the working intro, which I've edited down considerably from my previous version: Last year, OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-3, was tested as a viable healthcare chatbot, and promptly suggested that a fake patient should commit suicide because they “felt bad” (Daws, 2020) . While in this instance GPT-3 did not perform as hoped, large language models in general are fluent enough to give a false impression of language understanding and mental modeling (Bender et al., 2021) , thus epitomizing the concept of artificial intelligence, or AI. Cases like the above, however, call into question whether the intelligence and brain-based terminology used to market AI technology poses risks upon whom the technology is used. At the core of this terminology is perhaps the most debated metaphor in all of science, the...