Galen Panger ☕️
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Galen Panger ☕️
@gpanger
UX researcher. Social media behavior PhD @BerkeleyISchool ‘17. @Stanford ‘07. He/him/gay. I work @YouTube—all views mine.

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.


Holy crap. I knew about sycophancy. But the 37% number below blows my mind. This from an analysis of chat logs in people who experienced chatbot-associated delusions. In over a third of the messages to those users, the LLMs told the users they had (eg) “multi-billion-dollar-IP”. That is wild. And utterly irresponsible.



What do Americans consider immoral? Dive deeper into our U.S. morality report: pewresearch.org/religion/2026/…

Most people are misreading this war. It isn’t escalating gradually—it’s about to cross a threshold From disruption → damage That’s when escalation becomes economically irreversible. What comes next: escalationtrap.substack.com/p/from-disrupt…




















