ourworldindata.org/technology-lon… Great visualisation on the history of technology - 1M BCE = Fire 10,000 BCE = Agricultural Revolution 3,300 BCE = Wheel ~200 BCE = Paper 1500 = Scientific Revolution ~1800 = Vaccine 1903 = Plane 1945 = Nuclear 1969 = Moon 1991 = Internet … = AI?

LLMs get called sycophantic, but I see them more as practicing ‘unconditional positive regard,’ a humanistic psychology idea. In psychiatry, humans use our biological systems to know when to disagree. That’s where AI struggles.

AI feels human, but it isn’t. It will shape the future of human interaction, which leads to the challenge: harness its strengths without repeating the mistakes of social media. I explore these ideas further: open.substack.com/pub/reversepsy…