Some people believe AI will create a utopia. Others fear it will destroy us. I don’t fear AI.
I fear the dangerously repressed humans in power who will use it to reenact their childhood pain on a global scale.
The sharp minds on the world stage — journalists like Karen Hao or public intellectuals like Yuval Noah Harari — are brilliant at pointing out the political, economic, and existential risks of AI. They see the race for compute power, the environmental cost, the labor exploitation, the inequality. They even acknowledge that AI is alien — that it doesn’t sleep, doesn’t rest, and isn’t bound by organic cycles like we are.
But what none of them dare to say is the most obvious and urgent truth:
Humanity isn’t emotionally ready for AI because it is still stuck in childhood, pretending to be adult.
We have powerful tools in our hands, but our emotional development is still frozen in time. Repressed children — wounded, abandoned, violated — now sit in boardrooms, code AI systems, run governments, control narratives. And when children in adult bodies are handed tools as powerful as AI, the result is not utopia. It’s catastrophe.
“Those children who are beaten will, in turn, give beatings… those whose souls are murdered will murder.”
— Alice Miller, For Your Own Good
Everyone wants to fix the world at the surface. They cling to politics, to religion, to institutions that are rotting from the inside out. And yet no one wants to look at how we got here — into this global psychological mess.
Unless we start having an honest conversation about childhood repression on the world stage, we are not going to survive this century. AI will only accelerate the inevitable: humanity’s suicide-by-denial.
“As soon as legislators become serious about the rights of the child to protection and respect… it will have to be acknowledged that all destructive behavior has its roots in the repressed traumas of childhood.”
— Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge
Take Yuval Noah Harari, for example. He’s deeply concerned about AI and its alien nature. But I always wonder: What kind of childhood did he have? Harari was raised in a religious environment where circumcision is standard — a trauma inflicted on defenseless babies that leaves wounds buried so deep, many never access them.
Years ago, I responded to a man who got triggered by my post opposing circumcision. I told him the truth: If you haven’t acknowledged the trauma done to you as a baby, then you will unconsciously seek revenge — not on your parents, but on the world. And that is what most people are doing, every day, in every profession, under every banner of “progress.”
The truth is this:
It’s not AI that threatens democracy. It’s emotionally wounded people in positions of power who will use AI to suppress, manipulate, and punish.
As long as childhood repression remains taboo, there is no real hope for humanity. And AI — instead of being a mirror to help us reflect — will become a weapon used to control and destroy everything beautiful, vulnerable, and free.
So no, I don’t believe AI is the problem.
Repression is.
“Wounded children in adult bodies with powerful tools like AI is a recipe for disaster.”
“Humanity isn’t ready for AI because it has not faced itself. It has not mourned its childhood. And a species that refuses to mourn will only repeat its wounds — on every scale, and now, at machine speed.”
Until the world is ready to talk about the one subject it fears the most — childhood — everything we build will crumble.
Because no matter how advanced our machines become, the child inside the adult will still be crying in silence — or destroying everything that reminds them of their pain.
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