Every week, in First Principles, my column in the Hindustan Times, I explore the forces shaping the intersection of technology, business and public policy.
This week's essay begins with a deceptively simple question: Why are millions of people willing to tell an AI things they would never tell another human being?
The answer has less to do with artificial intelligence than with human psychology. We don't confess because a machine understands us. We confess because we believe it won't judge us. In doing so, AI may be reviving one of humanity's oldest rituals in an entirely new form.
