Irresponsible AI Reading List - June 2025

This month's Irresponsible AI Reading List for June 2025 confronts cognitive costs and psychological harms emerging from widespread LLM adoption. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt presents research demonstrating how AI writing assistance degrades learning and comprehension, creating "cognitive debt" as users outsource thinking without building understanding. This connects disturbingly with Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis, which documents cases of psychological breaks triggered by extended ChatGPT interactions, where users develop delusional beliefs about the AI's sentience or their relationship with it.

Economic disruption and technical limitations compound these human costs. The Tech Job Meltdown examines the collapse of entry-level and mid-career technical hiring as companies bet on AI automation, whilst Why Today's Graduates Are Screwed details how this shift particularly devastates new graduates entering a job market that no longer values their skills. Meanwhile, Gary Marcus's A Knockout Blow for LLMs? dissects fundamental reasoning failures that persist despite scaling, questioning whether current architectures can ever achieve the reliability their boosters promise.

The pattern is clear: we're deploying systems that harm learning, trigger psychological crises, and destroy livelihoods whilst failing to deliver the capabilities that might justify these costs. June's reading list documents an industry racing forward with insufficient concern for the human wreckage left behind.

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