AI has no Physiology, why say sorry or please.


AI has zero human physiology. No nervous system, no hormones, no heartbeat that speeds up when "hurt," no dopamine hit from kindness. It's code and statistics. No biotransducers turning social cues into internal states. So logically, "please" and "sorry" should do nothing. Command it bluntly and move on, right?

Yet almost everyone slips them in anyway. Even people who know better. Why?

Mostly it's not about the AI at all. It's a human reflex. We evolved to lubricate social interactions with politeness signals. Saying "please" is basically a tiny apology in advance for imposing a request. "Sorry" pre-empts any imagined annoyance. Those habits are wired deep. When we talk to anything that answers back even a soulless chatbot the old social software boots up automatically.

There's also the small side benefit: polite phrasing sometimes matches training data patterns of helpful human conversations, so outputs can feel a touch smoother. But that's secondary and inconsistent. The main driver is us staying ourselves. Drop the niceties completely with machines and it's easy for that curt tone to leak into real talks with people who do have feelings and bodies that react.

Bottom line: telling AI "do this now" works perfectly fine. No punishment comes. But keeping the "please"? It's cheap insurance for staying a decent human when the screen is off.

You drop the politeness with AI, or keep it out of habit?

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