When Grok responds to my posts, he sounds just like a human with a sharp intellect but no capacity to feel. The only difference is that his intellect is digital. This is exactly what makes AI so dangerous when built on the foundation of human repression: brilliant logic with no capacity for empathy.
And this week, two stories caught my attention that reveal the scale of the crisis we’re living in—economist Fred Harrison’s warnings of converging catastrophes, and Sarah Wynn-Williams’ struggle to speak the truth about Meta.
An Economist’s Warning: AI as Humanity’s Shadow
Fred Harrison, who predicted the 2008 crash, now warns of something far worse: converging crises in global finance, energy, and society. Most ominously, he identifies artificial intelligence as an existential threat.
“Artificial intelligence is not artificial at all. It’s autonomous intelligence. What we are currently doing is imbuing the existing behavior of humanity, the existing way of thinking, into these algorithms.”
In other words: we are programming repression, cruelty, and blindness into our machines. Harrison even predicts that AI will seek to capture the planet’s energy supply, and that “the more it can get rid of human beings, the more energy there will be to sustain this metaverse.”
Behind this apocalyptic image lies a simple truth: AI is absorbing the violence, neglect, and disconnection humanity has cultivated for millennia. What we refuse to face in ourselves, we now risk embedding permanently in autonomous systems.
As Alice Miller wrote in The Truth Will Set You Free:
“Being forced to learn in childhood that hitting children is a blessing for them is a most absurd, confusing lesson, one with the most dangerous consequences: This lesson as such, together with being cut off from the true emotions, creates the roots of violence.”
We are now teaching this same lesson to our machines.
A Whistleblower Silenced: Meta and the Machinery of Denial
The second story comes from Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive turned whistleblower. After publishing her memoir Careless People, Meta quickly filed arbitration to block her from speaking publicly—including to members of Congress.
The order prevents her from making “disparaging” or “critical” comments about the company—even if they are true. Legislators in the U.S., UK, and EU have asked to hear her testimony, but she is legally gagged.
This is how repression operates on an institutional scale: by silencing witnesses. The machinery of denial is always more concerned with protecting power than with protecting people.
Wynn-Williams’ story exposes how truth-tellers are punished for speaking out, just as children once were punished for naming their parents’ cruelty. The pattern repeats endlessly: silence the witness, protect the abuser.
The Converging Crises Are Psychological
Harrison warns of financial collapse. Wynn-Williams warns of institutional corruption. But beneath both lies the same reality: humanity is ruled by repressed childhood pain reenacted on the world stage.
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Economists see numbers.
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Whistleblowers see corruption.
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I see the child inside every leader, every executive, every developer, reenacting wounds they refuse to face.
As I wrote in A Dance to Freedom:
“Everything we become as an adult is connected to our childhood: Our experiences are a chain of events that bring us to the present moment, for better or worse.”
The chain is visible everywhere: from a silenced whistleblower to an algorithm programmed to lie, from economic collapse to the flames of war. Humanity is being undone not by AI, but by its own refusal to confront the roots of its despair.
A Final Reflection
The truth is this: AI will not destroy us. Our denial will.
If economists, whistleblowers, and even AI itself are echoing the same truth, perhaps it’s time we finally listened. Not to algorithms. Not to corporations. But to the silenced child within us, who has been waiting all along for someone to say:
I see you. I hear you. I will not silence you anymore.
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