When AI marketing borrows psychological language, it risks eroding public literacy about what true agency (and true responsibility) really mean.
As AI systems become more embedded in daily life, the new AI policy in the US is redefining what “bias” means. The shift opens up new tensions in what was believed to be a settled question in the realm of technology, identity, and ethical values.
The lesson of ChatGPT’s sycophancy reminds us that technologists must balance the ‘what ifs’ of the future with the lived realities of users in the present.
AI belongs to a rapidly evolving class of technologies that blurs the line between computation, autonomy, and cognition, demanding a more stringent level of oversight we’ve never had to contend with nor consider ... until now.