What Aleks Krotoski thinks about AI agents

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American-British social psychologist, journalist and broadcaster; presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human and co-host of Artificial Human; author of Untangling the Web and The Immortalists.

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1. 26 Oct 2026, 14:45 UTC

   Our readingDevelopers who promise that their AI agents are us risk creating an unanticipated psychological mess.

   Their wordsAI agents are handy, but developers run a real danger of creating a whole unanticipated psychological mess by promising that their code is us.

   ↗The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’tmessy-humans.ghost.io 1st of 3 in this piece

3. 26 Oct 2026, 14:45 UTC

   Our readingPeople will trust AI clones based on themselves more than generic AI agents, because a clone feels like part of their in-group.

   Their wordsAnd this is why I believe we will trust AI clones based on ourselves more than generic AI agents.

   ↗The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’tmessy-humans.ghost.io 2nd of 3 in this piece