Participants can surprise themselves as much as they surprise everyone else. Before long, they’re not merely taking part but shaping the argument.

The version of themselves who ‘doesn’t do this sort of thing’ has apparently taken a brief leave of absence.

People are able to form fixed opinions about strangers from a short recording or somebody else’s description of an event. They become angry with anyone who interprets the same fragments differently. AI now gives those opinions structure and an appearance of authority. It can make an untested belief sound like a considered judgement.

My concern isn’t simply that this will produce more keyboard warriors. I’m more troubled by what it might do to curiosity