Sally Kohn: What sort of claims are being made by proponents about the so-called intelligence of AI? linguist Emily Bender has argued a link that there's this huge misunderstanding at work, she says. Kohn: Is there some sort of slight of hand here going on in terms of humans feeling this very human tendency to impute human intentionality and agency to phenomena we find meaningful? She asks if these AI systems are even possible to build in the first place; two, like what would we want them to be used for if we can and do want to pursue their creation?