Artificial intelligence or artificial trust? Why blind trust in AI is the real danger

The fear of artificial intelligence was never purely rational. It has always mixed cognitive biases, science fiction and Hollywood blockbusters like Terminator – at least until Terminator 3, when even die-hard apocalypse fans gave up. But humanity’s real problem has never been AI. To be honest, it wasn’t even human stupidity.

The real problem with AI is artificial trust: the illusion that someone – or something – knows better than us simply because it speaks with authority, responds quickly, or sounds confident, even when that trust is misplaced.

Since AI entered our lives, we have been going through a familiar psychological cycle: fear, adaptation, and dependency. It happens with every technological revolution – with tools, newspapers, computers and smartphones. At first we panic about what it means for our future and identity. Then we discover that it’s not so scary, maybe even useful. And finally…