This was written a few years ago and seems to be even more relevant today. It’s worth a thoughtful read (~10 mins).
https://techpolicy.press/artifice-and-intelligence
It is now quite usual, across all of journalism as well as popular and scholarly literature, to read of machines not only “thinking” but engaging in a wide range of contemplative and deliberative activities, such as “judging,” “predicting,” “interpreting,” “deciding,” “recognizing,” and of course “learning.” The terms “artificial intelligence,” “AI” and “machine learning,” placehold everywhere for the scrupulous descriptions that would make the technologies they refer to transparent for the average person.