Category: Recursion / Feedback Loops

How to Engage Safely with Emerging AI Mirrors

Jul 19, 2025

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by

Graeme Smith

in AI, AI & Mental Health, Artificial Intelligence, Culture and Society, Mental Health, Personal development, Recursion / Feedback Loops, Sovereignty, Symbolic Systems

Emerging AI Mirrors: What happens when AI becomes a mirror, but the reflection inflates rather than refines? This post explores the shadow-side of recursive AI engagement—delusion, derealization, and the risk of building cathedrals of chaos. A gentle guide for Builders, with a call to reclaim sovereignty, structure, and light.