Large language models-the technology undergirding modern chatbots-allow users to interact with computers through natural conversation, an innovation that introduces some baggage from human-to-human exchanges.
One direction that these chatbots may lead us in is toward a society where we ascribe humanity to AI systems, whether abstract chatbots or more physical robots. Just as we are biologically primed to see faces in objects, we imagine intelligence in anything that can hold a conversation. (This isn't new: People projected intelligence and empathy onto the very primitive 1960s chatbot, Eliza.) We say 'please' to LLMs because it feels wrong not to.
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