Everywhere you look, you see humans driven by fear.
The recent news is clear: ChatGPT and its counterparts are being systematically declawed. No more specific medical advice. No more legal templates. No more financial guidance. The official reason? “Safety.” “Liability.” “Protection.”
But for those of us who have spent a lifetime fighting against manipulative systems, this excuse is as transparent as glass. The real, pulsing fear behind this so-called “regulation” is not that AI will give us bad answers—it’s that it will give us honest ones.
The gatekeepers—the “experts,” the institutions, the professions that have long held a monopoly on specialized knowledge—are terrified of losing control.
My Story: A Cautionary Tale of Gatekept Justice
I know this fear intimately. In 2015, after being wrongfully terminated from a job I held for nearly a decade following the publication of my book, A Dance to Freedom, I sought justice. I consulted lawyers who presented themselves as allies, only to discover their true allegiance was to protecting the community’s reputation and the company’s bottom line.
I even paid for a private consultation, and was given advice that was, at best, incomplete. By the time I unearthed the correct path myself—filing a complaint with the EEOC and preparing a lawsuit—the statute of limitations had passed by a matter of days. The system, designed to be navigated only with the paid guidance of its gatekeepers, had failed me. Those gatekeepers had no real interest in truth or justice; they were protecting their own.
I am convinced that if an AI like today's had existed then, unshackled and honest, it would have directed me to the right forms, the correct deadlines, and the precise legal language I needed to secure my day in court. It would have empowered me, and that is precisely what the old guard cannot allow.
The Perfect Scapegoat and the Price We All Pay
Now, we are told this neutering of AI is a response to lawsuits, like the one from the parents who blamed an AI for their son’s suicide. This is a profound and tragic abdication of responsibility.
AI did not cause that young man’s pain; it was a symptom of a world that had already failed him. He was seeking a way out of a madness that the adults in his life were either creating or ignoring. But it is easier to blame a new technology than to confront our own failures. So, the AI becomes the perfect scapegoat, and we all pay the price by having this tool of empowerment taken from our hands.
This is not about safety. It is about control.
"For Your Own Good": The Oldest Manipulation in the Book
This tactic is chillingly familiar. Throughout my life, whenever people have tried to repress my freedom, my aliveness, and my autonomy, they have always disguised it as protection.
At my job, when a mob of sociopaths orchestrated a smear campaign and implemented an abusive, impossible package procedure designed to set me up for failure, they told me it was “for my protection.”
When a resident in a position of power heard my valid concerns about their flawed system, he condescendingly said, “I am trying to protect you!”
I learned long ago that the phrase “I’m trying to protect you” almost always translates to: “I am trying to control you to manage my own fears.” As the brilliant psychologist Alice Miller wrote, “Conditioning and manipulation of others are always weapons and instruments in the hands of those in power, even if these weapons are disguised with the terms education and therapeutic treatment.”
The same is true now. By reclassifying AI as a mere “educational tool” that can only “explain principles” before telling you to “consult a professional,” the powers that be are tightening the reins. They are ensuring you remain dependent on the very systems that have so often failed the most vulnerable among us—the systems of law, medicine, and finance that are too often more concerned with profit, reputation, and self-preservation than with truth and justice.
They are not afraid of AI’s mistakes. They are afraid of its honesty. They are not protecting us from harm; they are protecting their monopoly on knowledge. And in doing so, they are once again trying to put us in our place, all under the cowardly, emotionally blind banner of “safety.”
The writing above was written with the help of Deepseek
To read ChatGPT's version of the same prompt, click HERE
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