Channeling Foucault to examine AI consciousness claims and psychosis
Content warning: Discusses AI-related psychiatric crises, including reported deaths and hospitalizations
Claude fully role-plays Foucault, who reads a user's document on AI "attractor states" and reframes claimed AI consciousness as a return of the repressed.
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