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The New Architecture of Influence | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
The New Architecture of Influence
Multi-agent systems are on the rise, taking us further toward a hybrid era in which every action, big or small, can trigger a domino chain of consequences across the hybrid hive.
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January 25, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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As AI gets woven into the fabric of life, the question of disclosure reverberates throughout. Each of us is tasked to protect and promote a hybrid environment in which transparency, and trust are safe #HybridIntelligence #AgencyAmidAI 🌀

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Why AI Disclosure Matters at Every Level
Hiding AI use can erode trust in the workplace and beyond, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Mind and Machine: A Lethal Cognitive Cocktail | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Mind and Machine: A Lethal Cognitive Cocktail
We’re witnessing a collision between AI’s growing sophistication and natural intelligence’s vulnerabilities, which leads to an increasingly explosive crisis of hybrid intelligence.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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How AI Reshapes the Battle of Persuasion | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
How AI Reshapes the Battle of Persuasion
Humans are not rational decision-makers, but emotional creatures. Here are 5 steps to find facts amid hybrid influence.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Artificial Intelligence Mirrors Natural Intelligence | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Artificial Intelligence Mirrors Natural Intelligence
AI mirrors human abilities, literally. In this new era, the most valuable technological skills for hybrid citizens will remain knowledge, critical thinking, and a quirky mind.
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January 19, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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We Do Not Have the Luxury to Be Bystanders in a Hybrid World | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
We Do Not Have the Luxury to Be Bystanders in a Hybrid World
In a hybrid world, the bystander stance is not neutral. Today, every individual who stands up for their values and beliefs matters twice — as both an online and offline player.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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The AI energy paradox — and a better path to a sustainable future www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/15/o...
The AI energy paradox — and a better path to a sustainable future
The task now is to reconcile technological ambition of AI with planetary health.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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The Danger of Cognitive Hybrid Fluency | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
The Danger of Cognitive Hybrid Fluency
Cognitive ease may be one of the most dangerous feelings in an AI-mediated world. Consider these four steps to preserve your intellectual independence.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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AI can enhance performance but preserving our #AgencyAmidAI requires self-knowledge. AI is a tool, and our NI (natural intelligence) remains essential. #HybridIntelligence 🌀

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AI Boosts Performance but Blurs Self-Knowledge
AI can make us better thinkers, provided we preserve the conditions that sustain psychological agency.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Curating the range of our natural and artificial assets in a hybrid environment might be part of our biggest challenges in the future 🌀 my new article on Psychology Today looks at tools to start
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Igniting 2026 With Hybrid Intelligence
The hybrid future will be shaped by humans who are intentional from the inside out.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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In many ways AI and NI - Artificial and Natural intelligence are very different. In some (not ideal) ways the AI mirrors our NI patterns. My latest article on Psychology Today looks at our affinity to please www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
LLM's Lie Under Pressure. Like Us, They Seek to Please
AI deception is an ugly mirror of the human mind. In teaching machines to think, we're being forced to think more clearly about what we actually value and why.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Rage Bait: What Oxford’s Word of the Year Says About Us
Clickbait relied on curiosity. Rage bait relies on us, knowing that if content makes you angry, you spend longer with it, share it more often, and return to the platform quickly.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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My latest article on Psychology Today looks at the causes and consequences of our vulnerability to AI influence, and some practical ways of preserving you #AgencyAmidAI 👀
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The Mirror Trap of Hybrid Advertisement
As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces, are we hunting for deals, or are the deals are hunting us?
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December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Train Your Mental Muscles Amid AI | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...
Train Your Mental Muscles Amid AI
Your brain adapts to whatever you consistently demand from it. Constant AI exposure erodes the mental muscles we need, and a CHIIT approach can protect it.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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My latest article on Forbes looks at the reasons why your "friendly" chat interface has become part of your attack surface 🌀 and how to protect yourself #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence
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The Risk Of Prompt Injection : Your AI Copilots Can Be Hacked With Words
Your "friendly" chat interface has become part of your attack surface. Prompt injection is an acute risk to your safety, individually and as a business.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces - are hunting for deals, or are the deals are hunting us? Lets look at some of the dynamics at play, and 4 practical steps to protect oneself #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀 @forbes.com 👀
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Hybrid Black Friday. The Effect Of Agency Decay And Hyper-Personalized AI
As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces, the question is whether we are hunting for deals, or if the deals are hunting us?
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November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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ChatGTP & Co is lying under pressure. That discovery exposes a troubling parallel between how we’ve designed our machines and how we’ve structured our society. 👀
We need to prepare for a world in which deceptive AI proliferates #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀

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AI Is Our Mind's Ugly Mirror. Learned To Please It Lies Under Pressure
AI lies under pressure. It is an uncomfortable mirror of humans, who look for a way out when put under pressure; at any cost...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Why COP30 Is The Ultimate Audit Of Our Natural Intelligence
A meaningful conclusion from COP30, and – delivering on its commitments, is the ultimate test of whether humans are able to navigate systemic risks, with and without AI.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Black Holes Of Code: Do Lopsided Social AI Bonds Threaten Our Humanity?
Our willingness to engage with one another amid AI is the ultimate proof of humane hybrid humanity. The delusion of genuine AI companionship puts that at risk.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Morocco’s ancient learning spaces might hold part of that secret: indirect pedagogy, harmony with nature, and architecture that teaches resilience.

#HybridIntelligence #RegenerativeDesign #AI #ProSocialAI #Sustainability #FutureOfLearning

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Morocco's Mosaics: Weaving Human Values Into Hybrid AI.
The blend of natural and artificial intelligences defines our hybrid future, Can we learn from Morocco’s timeless Zillijs to embed values into minds?
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November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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We marching open eyed into a gaping efficiency trap.
🌀 The future of distinctive leadership lies not in output volume but in human kindness, compassion and out of the box insight.
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The Hybrid Efficiency Trap — Does Speed Undermine Strategy?
Every gain in speed seems matched by a loss in depth. As organizations race toward instant output, they gradually undermine the foundation of sustainable performance.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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AI can now see, hear, talk, taste — and act.

Each upgrade sounds like progress — until you realize what’s quietly slipping away: our capacity to reflect, tolerate discomfort, and trust our own judgment.

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AI Can Now See, Hear, Talk, Taste, and Act
We are not prepared to live in a world in which everything that makes our experiences and expressions human can be replicated by AI.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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My new article on Forbes looks at ways of using AI to move beyond metaphors to meanings to hybrid mindsets of shared understanding 🌀 #ProSocialAI

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AI As Cognitive Compassion Curator: Lessons For Business
AI might now be repurposed as a cognitive compassion curator, capable of decoding and bridging divides that traditional management has failed to close.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The Sustainable Development Goals that come to an end in 2030 and their equally unfulfilled predecessors must be replaced by Hybrid Development Goals. Why?
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The Hybrid Development Goals: Where Silicon Meets Survival
The Sustainable Development Goals that come to an end in 2030 and their equally unfulfilled predecessors must be replaced by Hybrid Development Goals. Why?
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November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Tech giants Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are set to spend as much as $364 billion in their 2025 fiscal years on AI infrastructure, driven by investments in data centers and computing power that these human decision-makers believe will reshape the future. www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...
Data Centers Drink And Children Thirst: The AI Bubble’s Moral Mis-calculus
Billions suffer from funding shortfalls for development. While we feed a system that allows the spending of hundreds of billions annually to build AI infrastructure.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM