Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

Shadows in the AI Mirror

"AI Apocalypse" as Jungian projection

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Mary Harrington
Sep 14, 2025
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Say you believe humans are rational and perfectible. How do you account for impulse, chaos, error, and - worst of all - evil? For Christians, original sin had this covered. But we live in a secular world, in which - especially among tech elites - there exists a strong belief that we need only become smarter and better at reasoning, and evil will go away…

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