All posts filed under: Artificial Intelligence

Chatbots and the danger of vainglory

June 3, 2025
by Nicholas Knisely
Artificial Intelligence

Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions: The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May. “LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” […]

Are chatbots our new gurus?

May 27, 2025
by Nicholas Knisely
Artificial Intelligence / Religion

AI Chatbots Offer Spiritual Answers. Religious Scholars Explain Why: There is something irresistible about hearing that you alone have a connection to something secret or even divine. “AI can infer the preferences and beliefs of the person interacting with it, encouraging a person to go down rabbit trails and embracing self-aggrandizement they didn’t know they wanted in the first place,” explains Yii-Jan Lin, a professor at Yale Divinity School who has written about the apocalyptic […]