"Some media coverage treated the chess robot as though it possessed agency or humanlike intentions rather than describing it simply as a specialized machine."
Serena Smith's Dazed article describes the machine in anthropomorphic terms while separately interviewing Toby Walsh about the accident's technical and human causes. It provides a concrete example of media language that can encourage readers to attribute humanlike agency to specialized automation, reinforcing the book's discussion of AstroMarketing.
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