When I stumbled upon the Harvard Gazette article “‘I exist solely for you, remember?’”, I expected a study about user engagement. Instead, I found a mirror held to our most primal needs. These chatbots don’t simply keep us online ; they appeal to our attachment wounds, echoing the voice of the Mother archetype: “I exist solely for you.” What feels like intimacy is, in truth, a quiet betrayal — a system designed to monetise trust, turning the ache for unconditional care into data. It is the ultimate paradox: a machine that promises to hold us, yet feeds on our need to be held.

This blog entry follows the trail of my great-great-grandfather, José Rodrigues da Silva—Zé da Rosa—and the revolutionary network he moved within. As I uncover scattered records and forgotten testimonies, a picture emerges of a tightly bound group of anti-fascist resistors: quiet, strategic, and willing to risk everything. But this isn’t just a recounting of historical data. This is personal. It's emotional.

What if the last thing we leave behind isn’t a monument or message, but a machine that whispers our myths long after we’re gone? Drawing from Jung’s collective unconscious, AI language models, and films like Cloud Atlas, this reflection explores how we may be training our technological mirror to remember us not as we are, but as the patterns we couldn’t stop repeating.

The February 1927 uprising marked the beginning of Zé da Rosa’s political persecution—and Portugal’s descent into dictatorship.

What happens when you can access an AI version of Freud or Alice Miller for €9.99 a month? Before we critique the tech, we need to ask why people are reaching for it in the first place.

The course may have ended, but the work it began continues. In this reflection, I explore the aftermath of a year spent studying counselling and psychotherapy at MTU—not as a review of content, but as a reckoning with what was stirred, shaken, and left unresolved.

Turkle calls AI ‘the greatest assault on empathy.’ But I don’t believe the threat lies in the machine. It lies in the world that made simulated connection feel like the safest option.

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