AI Isn’t Just a Tool—It’s a Test

Two recent articles point to something subtle but significant unfolding in our relationship with artificial intelligence. In Rolling Stone, writer Miles Klee critiques the growing presence of AI with a cultural skepticism that’s hard to ignore. He paints it as theater—flashy, convenient, and uncomfortably hollow. In contrast, my own post in Psychology Today offers a different but related view that AI, especially large language models (LLMs), present what I call…