History teacher asks: will generational trust in Claude turn into faith?
East_Special9309 · reddit · 2026-10-16
A former history teacher sparked a Reddit discussion on how deeply people already lean on Claude for advice, reassurance and hard decisions — and how humans have historically handed authority to whatever seemed wiser (priests, kings, institutions, experts). He asks whether trust in AI will keep deepening across generations, at what point it starts to look like faith, and what we would lose or gain.
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