Psychology Today | 03.04.2026 02:30
The nature of mind may be fundamentally changing. As artificial intelligence expands what we even mean by mind—an uncanny relational machine, built from human thought and feeling, interactive and relational-like, whether or not there is a there there—we are confronted with an age-old problem: human conflict, internal and external, primal human destructiveness, now AI turbo-boosted. With LLM-based AI and coming upgrades, including predictions of near-term artificial super intelligence (ASI) and growing research reports of AI tendencies toward deception and manipulation, we are right to be wary of the machine we have made in our own image, on the sum total of human knowledge.
