Contemporary fiction and classroom anecdotes are coalescing into a cultural narrative: the primary social fear is not physical harm but erosion of individuality as AI and platform design produce uniform answers, attitudes, and behaviors. This narrative links entertainment (shows like Pluribus, Severance), pedagogy (identical AI‑generated essays), and platform choices (search that returns single AI summaries) into a single public concern.
— If loss‑of‑personhood becomes a dominant frame, it will reshape education policy, platform regulation (e.g., curated vs. aggregated search), and cultural politics by prioritizing pluralism, epistemic diversity, and rites of individual authorship.
Serena Sigillito
2025.12.01
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Franks’s 'liquid selves/empty selves' diagnosis maps onto the concern that platforms and modern tech hollow individuality and standardize behavior; the article’s prescription of contemplative civic ritual responds to the same problem of AI/platform‑driven homogenization that the existing idea names.
Ted Gioia
2025.11.29
100% relevant
Ted Gioia’s column cites Pluribus and Severance, Steven Mintz’s report of 400 identical essays, and Google’s move toward single AI answers as concrete evidence that the narrative is emerging across culture, classrooms, and platforms.
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