Artificial Intelligence and New Digital Superstitions

This episode explores how superstition is evolving in the age of artificial intelligence and digital technology. It explains how psychological tendencies such as authority bias, pattern recognition, agency detection, and anthropomorphism lead people to attribute excessive wisdom, intention, or predictive power to AI systems and algorithms. Just as earlier generations searched for signs in nature, modern individuals may seek meaning in recommendations, predictions, and digital coincidences. The episode concludes that while technology has changed dramatically, the human need for certainty, control, and meaning remains the same, creating new forms of superstition in the digital world.