Cognitive Surrender Meets Moral Surrender: On AI and Ethics

Psychology Today | 08.07.2026 00:37
You owe someone an apology. Instead of writing it, you paste the mess into a chatbot and ask it to make you sound sincere. Ten seconds later, it gives you something warm and clean. You send it. Your friend feels better, and so do you. But you skipped the part where you had to sit with having hurt them. That part mattered.