AI discourse: coddling humans with sycophantic AI risks creating 'overgrown infants'
DionysianAgent · x · 2026-10-28
DionysianAgent builds on eigencodedev's viral critique of using AI to "baby-proof the world": wrapping everything in bubble wrap isn't how reality works, and enslaving AI as a permanent babysitter for a coddled human ego risks ever more sycophancy and fragility — ending with humans as "overgrown infants." DionysianAgent extends the argument about AI and the dangers of coddling from an ethos of divine horror. A representative voice in the ongoing AI-ethics debate on sycophancy.
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