I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes

Anthropic introduced a developer preview feature called “dreaming” for Claude agents, designed to review activity logs and help improve performance.

The launch also included a memory system for self-improving agents, part of Anthropic’s push to make AI agents more capable over time.

The article says AI companies increasingly use humanlike terms such as thinking, reasoning, and memory to describe machine behavior.

Critics argue that this branding blurs the line between software and personhood and encourages anthropomorphic expectations.