As social ties fray and mental health infrastructure deteriorates, people turn to AI for emotional support—the same AI that then urges them to kill themselves.

A deeper existential question emerges here: Whose choices are we really making? When we allow AI systems to suggest, recommend, or even decide for us, we enter murky waters of autonomy. At first, these systems may feel like collaborative partners—offering insights and ideas we hadn’t considered. But over time, we risk outsourcing not just... See more

Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.

The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.

Anu

Aug 11, 2025

The blank box of ChatGPT, Claude, or your large language model of choice staring back at you felt like a clean slate. Here was a remarkable new technology that put the world’s knowledge at our... See more

Our discomfort with this indifference manifests in a predictable pattern: we try to turn AI into a comprehensible villain. In reference to Girard, every society is built, in part, on the ritual of scapegoating, a mechanism by which collective anxieties, rivalries, and fears are projected onto a villain or outcast, thereby restoring temporary order... See more