2026

an archive of posts from this year

Jul 08, 2026 In a World Full of Convincing Fakes, Trust Moves Back to People You Can Verify
Jul 05, 2026 The Oldest Form of Mind-Reading
Jul 01, 2026 Every Mind That Ever Lived Was Shaped by a Technology
Jun 24, 2026 Scientists Are Using AI to Write the Papers That Judge AI
Jun 17, 2026 Attention Was a Scientific Concept Before It Was an Economy
Jun 10, 2026 Empathy Can Be Simulated, and That Should Worry Us Less Than We Think
Jun 03, 2026 ELIZA's Creator Spent His Life Warning Us About ELIZA
May 27, 2026 We May Need a Right to Mental Quiet
May 20, 2026 Prediction Is Not Understanding, in Brains or in Machines
May 13, 2026 Diagnosis Is a Decision, Not a Discovery
May 06, 2026 Why Engineers Are Programming Hesitation Into AI Voices
Apr 29, 2026 We Are Running the Largest Psychology Experiment in History With No Control Group
Apr 22, 2026 Anthropomorphism Is a Feature of Your Brain, Not a Mistake You Are Making
Apr 15, 2026 Placebo Is a Treatment We Do Not Understand
Apr 10, 2026 SIM-VAIL: auditing mental-health risks in AI chatbots
Apr 08, 2026 The Most Agreeable Friend You Will Ever Have Is the Worst One for You
Apr 01, 2026 The Turing Test Was Never a Test of Intelligence
Mar 25, 2026 Psychiatry Is Quietly Abandoning Its Own Diagnostic Manual
Mar 18, 2026 If a Chatbot Prevents One Suicide and Causes Another, How Do We Count It?
Mar 11, 2026 Loneliness Is a Signal, and AI Companions Are Learning to Silence It
Mar 04, 2026 Regulate AI Therapy by Use, Not by Intent
Feb 25, 2026 The Tell: Reading Mental Health From Non-Verbal Behavior
Jan 03, 2026 MAILA: decoding mental health from digital behavior