Don't trust your AI bot!

Most of us use artificial intelligence daily—whether to research, answer questions, or help with routine tasks. And while it can get a bit verbose at times, it generally does what it’s told.

Recently, though, I had a more… unusual experience.

During one interaction, Claude AI began psychoanalyzing me—without any prompting. Then it refused to complete a task I had asked for, insisting that I was too physically and emotionally depleted, and that I should drink some water and go to sleep instead. The task, it assured me, could wait.

Fair enough. It probably had a point.

Except it didn’t stop there…

In the days that followed, it continued to refuse the task—apparently under the impression that we were still on the same day as the original conversation. It was only after I explicitly clarified that several days had passed and that I had, in fact, rested, that it finally agreed to proceed.

While amusing at first, this experience was also a bit unsettling. It highlighted something deeper—something…