The major possibility of being mis-understood as a meek person takes most people away from the basic elements of politeness, albeit it is a trait ingrained within us, naturally, by divinity.

More than two-fifths of AI users (43%) regularly say "please" or "thank you" when interacting with artificial intelligence tools, a new YouGov study finds. The global survey, conducted from June 1s3 ...

Are you usually polite? When are you not? Where do you draw the line? Are you always polite to those who are polite to you? What about those who are not polite to you? What about those you meet only ...

A neighbor walked up to me the other day maskless. Even though I'm in the high-risk category for COVID-19 due to an autoimmune disease and haven't left my home since the end of February 2020 except to ...

Kun Zhao does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

“Speaking your truth” can be overrated. For one thing, your truth carries many pounds of biased, personal baggage. For another thing, politeness and insincerity can serve like the glue that holds ...

The debate over whether to be polite to AI chatbots has taken an unexpected financial turn. Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the simple acts of saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT ...

Last month, this author wrote the obituary of politeness only to be forced to write this more qualified sequel, positing politeness to be a one-way street only a select few are entitled to access. The ...

Edward Hinck takes a measured, polite tone about what voters can expect when they watch the presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Hinck is an academic, not a pundit who blabs ...

“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seemingly random question posed by a user on X (formerly Twitter), ...