Psychology Today | 21.01.2026 05:19
We stand at a peculiar junction in human history. For the first time, the technologies we’ve created can speak back to us with uncanny fluency, craft images indistinguishable from photographs, and generate text that reads as if it came from an expert’s pen. Simultaneously, these same technologies are learning to exploit the very cognitive shortcuts that helped our ancestors survive, shortcuts that now make us vulnerable to manipulation at unprecedented scale.
