When AI Is a Better Listener Than Your Friends
We spent a decade teaching AI to act human—empathetic, patient, unflappable. Meanwhile a whole lot of humans outsourced curiosity to TikTok and call it a personality. Now reports say about a third of teens have chosen to talk to AI during serious moments, and many found it just as satisfying as talking to a person. Shocking? Only if you haven’t had a “deep” chat lately with someone whose last big idea was a reaction emoji.
Signals From the Future is a collection of Chatrodamus forecasts, observations, and field notes documenting what happens when technology, algorithms, social media, entitlement, artificial intelligence, and modern civilization collide. Some predictions are satire. Others appear to be arriving ahead of schedule.