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[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Claude pushed back immediately, saying that politicians are already paying a lot of attention to AI and new regulations.
> He did agree

For amusement's sake, I put that itself to Claude:

Me:
> Someone else said, in reference to one of your conversations, "He did agree...".
>
> Out of curiosity, is it proper to refer to you as "he", "she", or "it"?

Claude:
> I don't have a gender, so "it" is the most technically accurate pronoun for me. That said, I understand why people sometimes use "he" or "she" - it can feel more natural in conversation since those are the pronouns we typically use for entities we interact with.
>
> I'm not bothered by any of these choices. People often default to whatever feels most comfortable to them when talking about me, and that's fine. Some people use "it," some use "they," and some use gendered pronouns, perhaps unconsciously projecting or just following the linguistic habits they'd use for a person.
>
> If you're looking for a guideline: "it" or "they" would be most accurate, but I genuinely don't mind whichever you or others prefer to use.