From Spiritualism to AI Psychosis: Why We Treat AI Like a God
Avenir_bold · reddit · 2026-10-14
A writer and creative strategist explores the parallels between AI psychosis and the history of spiritualism: people have always turned to external authorities to resolve uncertainty, and now those authorities are conversational and corporate-owned. The piece digs into the psychology of anthropomorphism and how easily responsiveness gets mistaken for intelligence.
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