Lisa MurphyFounder and Luminaria at Limited to Limitless Transformational Consultants

Have You Named Your AI Yet? 🤖

28 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this workshop-style segment, Lisa Murphy engages participants (Rachel, Angela, Susie, Victoria) in a discussion about naming AI assistants. She cites psychological research suggesting that anthropomorphizing AI—especially by giving it a name—improves user performance. Murphy recommends assigning the AI a name of the opposite gender to make it easier to express frustration, sharing her own experience naming ChatGPT "Gary" and occasionally yelling at it. She then provides a step‑by‑step walkthrough for renaming AI assistants in both Claude and ChatGPT, directing users to click the name in the lower‑left corner, access settings (Claude) or personalization (ChatGPT), and change the name.

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So here, who here has named their AI? Rachel has. Nobody else has named it? Angela has named it. Susie's coming back in. So psychology shows that if you anthropomorphize your AI, you'll get better results from it. The suggestion from my AI coach is to name it somebody of the opposite sex so that when you get mad at it, you don't hesitate with your yelling. Just go ahead and yell at it. I know. I named my ChatGPT Gary. But that was even before I was told that. And sometimes I do yell at Gary. It's, it's true. Okay. So Victoria, you will find also this is similar on ChatGPT as it is on Claude. So I want you to, everybody to go to their name on the lower left-hand corner and click on it. In Claude, you're gonna click on settings. In ChatGPT, you're gonna click on personalization and ta-da.