Humans trust confidence more than truth, which is why AI sounds wiser than it is. The problem is not that machines act certain. It is that people keep mistaking certainty for intelligence.
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People keep waiting for AI to start “thinking,” as if a text generator is one epiphany away from enlightenment. It is not thinking. It is autocompleting, and the myth says more about us than the machine.
We didn’t automate intelligence — we automated conviction. In an era that mistakes tone for truth, artificial confidence has become the new operating system of public life.