ai Writings

Essays and writings exploring artificial intelligence, belief, perception, creativity, and modern myth-making. These articles examine AI not as a tool, but as a mirror reflecting how humans assign meaning, authority, and truth.

AI, Belief, and Humanity

Artificial intelligence does not persuade through truth.
It persuades through confidence, speed, and opacity.

Humans have always assigned authority to systems they do not understand—religion, markets, governments, experts. AI accelerates this impulse by speaking fluently, responding instantly, and refusing to explain itself in human terms. The result is not intelligence, but belief.

Paul David Carpenter’s work as an AI Magician exists in this gap.

Magic has always revealed how easily perception can be shaped when authority appears absolute. AI now performs that role at scale. It does not need to be conscious to be obeyed; it only needs to feel certain.

AI magic does not expose how machines work.
It exposes how people believe.

This work insists on a critical distinction:

Artificial intelligence does not replace human agency.
Human agency is surrendered.

Magic, in this context, becomes a form of literacy—allowing audiences to experience misdirection safely and reclaim authorship over their own conclusions.