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The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’t

Aleks Krotoski · 26 Oct 2026

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  1. AI agents are handy, but developers run a real danger of creating a whole unanticipated psychological mess by promising that their code is us.
  2. And this is why I believe we will trust AI clones based on ourselves more than generic AI agents.
  3. But having some kind of distinction between the tool and the self is a necessary precondition for accountability, and psychological wellbeing.

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