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Podcast frames AI chatbots as life-raft confidants for over a billion users
Oct 3, 2026SOURCE: theguardian.com
SO WHAT
If this trust scales faster than accountability, the thousand-day window narrows—choice migrates from households to model-defined advice loops.
Millions are outsourcing emotional decisions to conversational systems. This is the inversion: the old mind-to-tool boundary is collapsing inside the phase transition window.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.