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The Replacement Fallacy | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
The Replacement Fallacy
Personal Perspective: We cannot compute our way out of a planet we have consumed.
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February 16, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Agency Decay and the Risk of AI's Asymptomatic Harms | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Agency Decay and the Risk of AI's Asymptomatic Harms
Agency does not vanish in one dramatic moment due to AI exposure. More often, it dissolves—gradually, politely, with measurable gains along the way. But we can protect ourselves.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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The Emotional Implications of the AI Risk Report 2026 | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
The Emotional Implications of the AI Risk Report 2026
Our need for connection makes us vulnerable to forming bonds with machines, because AI can simulate empathy while completely lacking care. We are putting ourselves at risk.
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February 11, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Why the New AI Safety Report Reveals Our Mind's Limitation | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Why the New AI Safety Report Reveals Our Mind's Limitation
Will AI surpass our natural intelligence in the future? Maybe. Rather than focussing on gloom or glory we must upgrade our ability to see and address the real risks of a hybrid era
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February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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OpenClaw and Moltbook Are Rewiring Human Identity | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
OpenClaw and Moltbook Are Rewiring Human Identity
The age of the autonomous agent is here. Can we meet it with the psychological sophistication it demands—or let the mirror become the mask?
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February 4, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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A Practical ABCD: Beyond AI Augmentation to Amplification | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
A Practical ABCD: Beyond AI Augmentation to Amplification
The path toward the hybrid future requires resistance against the path of least resistance. If you don't share your best self, the world will forever be left with a void.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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From AI Augmentation to Automation, or Amplification? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
From AI Augmentation to Automation, or Amplification?
Those who view AI as a tool they can and do deliberately control maintain agency. Your behavioral signature becomes more valuable as it becomes more visible against AI's standards.
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January 31, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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The Language Trap: How AI Writing Tools Are Standardizing Our Thoughts | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
The Language Trap: How AI Writing Tools Are Standardizing Our Thoughts
As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and thought. Is AI feeding our minds intellectual fast food?
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January 28, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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The New Architecture of Influence | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
The New Architecture of Influence
Multi-agent systems are on the rise, taking us further toward a hybrid era in which every action, big or small, can trigger a domino chain of consequences across the hybrid hive.
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January 25, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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As AI gets woven into the fabric of life, the question of disclosure reverberates throughout. Each of us is tasked to protect and promote a hybrid environment in which transparency, and trust are safe #HybridIntelligence #AgencyAmidAI 🌀

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Why AI Disclosure Matters at Every Level
Hiding AI use can erode trust in the workplace and beyond, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Mind and Machine: A Lethal Cognitive Cocktail | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Mind and Machine: A Lethal Cognitive Cocktail
We’re witnessing a collision between AI’s growing sophistication and natural intelligence’s vulnerabilities, which leads to an increasingly explosive crisis of hybrid intelligence.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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How AI Reshapes the Battle of Persuasion | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
How AI Reshapes the Battle of Persuasion
Humans are not rational decision-makers, but emotional creatures. Here are 5 steps to find facts amid hybrid influence.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Artificial Intelligence Mirrors Natural Intelligence | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Artificial Intelligence Mirrors Natural Intelligence
AI mirrors human abilities, literally. In this new era, the most valuable technological skills for hybrid citizens will remain knowledge, critical thinking, and a quirky mind.
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January 19, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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We Do Not Have the Luxury to Be Bystanders in a Hybrid World | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
We Do Not Have the Luxury to Be Bystanders in a Hybrid World
In a hybrid world, the bystander stance is not neutral. Today, every individual who stands up for their values and beliefs matters twice — as both an online and offline player.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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The AI energy paradox — and a better path to a sustainable future www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/15/o...
The AI energy paradox — and a better path to a sustainable future
The task now is to reconcile technological ambition of AI with planetary health.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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The Danger of Cognitive Hybrid Fluency | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
The Danger of Cognitive Hybrid Fluency
Cognitive ease may be one of the most dangerous feelings in an AI-mediated world. Consider these four steps to preserve your intellectual independence.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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AI can enhance performance but preserving our #AgencyAmidAI requires self-knowledge. AI is a tool, and our NI (natural intelligence) remains essential. #HybridIntelligence 🌀

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AI Boosts Performance but Blurs Self-Knowledge
AI can make us better thinkers, provided we preserve the conditions that sustain psychological agency.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Curating the range of our natural and artificial assets in a hybrid environment might be part of our biggest challenges in the future 🌀 my new article on Psychology Today looks at tools to start
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Igniting 2026 With Hybrid Intelligence
The hybrid future will be shaped by humans who are intentional from the inside out.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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In many ways AI and NI - Artificial and Natural intelligence are very different. In some (not ideal) ways the AI mirrors our NI patterns. My latest article on Psychology Today looks at our affinity to please www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
LLM's Lie Under Pressure. Like Us, They Seek to Please
AI deception is an ugly mirror of the human mind. In teaching machines to think, we're being forced to think more clearly about what we actually value and why.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Rage Bait: What Oxford’s Word of the Year Says About Us
Clickbait relied on curiosity. Rage bait relies on us, knowing that if content makes you angry, you spend longer with it, share it more often, and return to the platform quickly.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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My latest article on Psychology Today looks at the causes and consequences of our vulnerability to AI influence, and some practical ways of preserving you #AgencyAmidAI 👀
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The Mirror Trap of Hybrid Advertisement
As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces, are we hunting for deals, or are the deals are hunting us?
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December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Train Your Mental Muscles Amid AI | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Train Your Mental Muscles Amid AI
Your brain adapts to whatever you consistently demand from it. Constant AI exposure erodes the mental muscles we need, and a CHIIT approach can protect it.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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My latest article on Forbes looks at the reasons why your "friendly" chat interface has become part of your attack surface 🌀 and how to protect yourself #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence
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The Risk Of Prompt Injection : Your AI Copilots Can Be Hacked With Words
Your "friendly" chat interface has become part of your attack surface. Prompt injection is an acute risk to your safety, individually and as a business.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces - are hunting for deals, or are the deals are hunting us? Lets look at some of the dynamics at play, and 4 practical steps to protect oneself #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀 @forbes.com 👀
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Hybrid Black Friday. The Effect Of Agency Decay And Hyper-Personalized AI
As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces, the question is whether we are hunting for deals, or if the deals are hunting us?
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November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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ChatGTP & Co is lying under pressure. That discovery exposes a troubling parallel between how we’ve designed our machines and how we’ve structured our society. 👀
We need to prepare for a world in which deceptive AI proliferates #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀

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AI Is Our Mind's Ugly Mirror. Learned To Please It Lies Under Pressure
AI lies under pressure. It is an uncomfortable mirror of humans, who look for a way out when put under pressure; at any cost...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM