In 1976, MIT AI Lab computer scientist Drew McDermott published his infamous paper, Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity1.It aired his concerns about the field of AI at the time. He critiqued the field’s cavalier use of language to ascribe human properties to computer programs, creating deeply flawed understanding and expectations of AI. Among his criticisms was the fact that designing programs like local network search made reckless use of mnemonics that again, attributed human cognitive faculties, goals, intentions, and desires to these programs, creating delusions even inside the field about the elementary nature of computer programs.