
How Conspiracy Theorists Found Their AI Soulmate
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney As conspiracy theorists fine-tune AI to echo their worldview, the danger isn’t hallucination but affirmation. When machines become soulmates for delusion, democracy suffers. To counter these next-generation cognitive threats, our laws must evolve to treat AIs as high-risk based on their function and training data, not just their declared purpose. In 2025,…