<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/scientificwatchdog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:11:13 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thementalforecast.world/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[VISIBILITY AS AN AUTONOMOUS WEAPON OF CYBERCAPITALISM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liviu Poenaru May 2026 Autonomous weapons begin with a brutal operational sequence: detect, classify, track, select, strike. In military discourse, this refers to systems capable of operating with varying degrees of autonomy in the absence of direct human decision at the moment of action (United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs n.d.). Cybercapitalism has transferred this logic from the battlefield into the field of perception. Visibility now operates as an autonomous weapon: it detects...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/visibility-as-an-autonomous-weapon-of-cybercapitalism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1b10680d3cce725ea7935f</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 16:30:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI NEUROSIS AND THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: WHEN THE MACHINE CONFIRMS AND AMPLIFIES INNER CONFLICT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liviu Poenaru May 2026 A new social psychiatric concern is crystallizing around what British policymakers now call the “anxious generation” entering the labor market. A report led by former UK health secretary Alan Milburn argues that nearly one million young people in the United Kingdom are currently outside employment, education, or training, with mental ill-health — especially anxiety, depression, neurodevelopmental conditions, and digital overstimulation — playing a central role (The...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/ai-neurosis-and-the-anxious-generation-when-the-machine-confirms-and-amplifies-inner-conflict</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a12ab47f3bc0136e51827f5</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 07:40:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_77a57ed115f849338318d4714356b631~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MICROBIOME AND MENTAL ILLNESS: THE BLISS POINT OF CAPITALISM, ENGINEERED FOOD, AND PERMANENT FRUSTRATION]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST Liviu Poenaru &#38; Dr Stefania Ubaldi  May 2026 A mental forecast for contemporary capitalism begins with a contradiction: the system produces bliss points while also producing permanent frustration. The bliss point, in the context of engineered food, refers to the optimized sensory zone where sugar, salt, fat, texture, aroma, and ease of consumption are calibrated to maximize pleasure and repeat consumption. In this sense, engineered food is not simply food; it is a...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/microbiome-and-mental-illness-the-bliss-point-of-capitalism-engineered-food-and-permanent-frustra</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a115782b883334b04e4de06</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economic Injury in Gut-Brain Axis]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 07:31:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AS ECONOMIC TERRAIN]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST May 2026 Mental health is no longer simply psychiatric. It is infrastructural. The crisis is not only located inside fragile individuals, unstable families, or overwhelmed clinics. It is also produced by environments that reorganize sleep, attention, emotional development, intimacy, comparison, and distress at population scale. Social media now appears less as a secondary cultural habit than as a public-health infrastructure with psychiatric consequences. Its costs are no...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/the-nervous-system-as-economic-terrain</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0c0201614a7ecb2ec88459</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 06:25:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_f4db4f1b4c554c0f8904aae3797b47f0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ANTIDEPRESSANTS, DEPRESCRIBING, AND THE BÉQUILLE OF EXHAUSTED SOCIETIES]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST May 2026 The debate over deprescribing antidepressants is not simply a fight between “medicine” and “anti-medicine.” It is a fight over trust, review, and the right to decide when a medication is still needed. In May 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a plan to reduce psychiatric overprescribing, promote informed consent, and support tapering or discontinuation when clinically indicated (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2026). The...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/antidepressants-deprescribing-and-the-b%C3%A9quille-of-exhausted-societies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a098f12ea733de5ffb89ba5</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 09:50:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLEEP DURATION DECLINE: AN EXHAUSTED GENERATION CONSUMED BY CONSUMPTION]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST May 2026 The mental forecast is no longer that adolescents are “sleepy.” It is that adolescence itself is being reorganized around chronic non-recovery. The recent Pediatrics study by Widome and colleagues found that, during 2021–2023, only 37.2 percent of U.S. adolescents aged 12 or 13 and only 22.3 percent of those aged 18 or 19 reported sleeping seven or more hours per night, the lowest prevalence observed across the 1991–2023 study period (Widome et al. 2026). In other...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/sleep-duration-decline-an-exhausted-generation-consumed-by-consumption</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a09867edf43effc8ce1a151</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Screen Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[Epidemiology]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 09:13:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_b2f99c4de985434e861546dfbd657997~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE NEUROINFLAMMATORY SUBJECT: ECONOMIC INJURY IN THE GUT–BRAIN AXIS]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST Dr Liviu Poenaru &#38; Dr Stefania Ubaldi May 2026 What does a society become when economic injury no longer stops at the surface of life, but enters the gut, the immune system, and the brain? The microbiome is one of the body’s exposed borders. Industrial food, chronic stress, sleep disruption, antibiotics, pollution, poverty, isolation, and accelerated rhythms pass through it. Mental life is not sealed inside the psyche. It is crossed by microbial metabolites, vagal...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/the-neuroinflammatory-subject-economic-injury-in-the-gut-brain-axis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a057b11e8ad7aab1e6123f1</guid><category><![CDATA[Economic Injury in Gut-Brain Axis]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 07:36:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_c042f71bf72c43929fdd41cd7316168a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[WHAT DOES A SOCIETY BECOME WHEN DISTRESS BECOMES THE WEATHER?]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FORECAST May 2026 What does a society become when distress is no longer exceptional, but part of the weather of ordinary life? WHO’s most recent global signal is severe: more than one billion people are living with mental health conditions, with anxiety and depression among the most common, while suicide still accounted for an estimated 727,000 deaths in 2021 (World Health Organization, 2025). A 2026 Global Burden of Disease analysis also reports that anxiety and depression remain...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/what-does-a-society-become-when-distress-becomes-the-weather</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0579d02fe6e98eed49353c</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Epidemiology]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 07:32:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ambivalent Link Between Adolescent Digital Consumer Media Exposure and Meaning in Life – A Dual Mediation Model via World Assumptions and Materialism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anna Maria Zawadzka, Magdalena Iwanowska &#38; Magdalena Zawisza  March 2026 Negative consequences of digital consumer media exposure (DCME) have attracted global attention, yet few studies have examined how it relates to adolescents’ meaning in life (AML) – a concept essential for healthy functioning and development. We propose, test, and largely support a novel dual mediation model linking DCME to AML through world assumptions (i.e., (1) self-worthiness with two beliefs in self-worth and luck,...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/the-ambivalent-link-between-adolescent-digital-consumer-media-exposure-and-meaning-in-life-a-dual</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe03dcecab901137512d3b</guid><category><![CDATA[Critical Studies]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:42:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE MANUFACTURE OF COUNTERFEIT TRUST]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liviu Poenaru April 2026 No, we are not facing only an erosion of epistemic trust, but an epistemic shift. The problem is not simply that people trust less; it is that they increasingly trust differently. The collapse of confidence in institutions, science, journalism, images, and expert systems does not produce a population of lucid skeptics calmly examining evidence. More often, it produces subjects who are epistemically disoriented and therefore newly available to substitute beliefs,...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/the-manufacture-of-counterfeit-trust</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69edd88b66c8a4da0ff5c2ae</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:21:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_c042f71bf72c43929fdd41cd7316168a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alienation in Modern Culture: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Five Societal Transitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stefan Bogaerts, Atha Chasiotis, Patrick Klaiber, John Bechara, Loes Abrahams, Bell Piyasinchai, Tom Junker, Meeke Hoedjes, Lisanne Stone, Marija Janković Erik Masthoff  FEB. 2026 Abstract This theoretical study investigates contemporary experiences of alienation through five major societal transitions: individualization, performance pressure, technological overload, loss of meaning, and ecological awareness. Drawing on key psychoanalytic concepts, particularly the role of the Other in the...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/alienation-in-modern-culture-a-psychoanalytic-analysis-of-five-societal-transitions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69edd29840a0465aa6c5f460</guid><category><![CDATA[Critical Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alienation]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:56:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social information creates self-fulfilling prophecies in judgments of pain, vicarious pain, and cognitive effort]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aryan Yazdanpanah, Heejung Jung, Alireza Soltani, and Tor D. Wager  Feb. 2026 Significance Today’s societies have become deeply intertwined through unprecedented connectivity and information exchange. Although social information can benefit decision-making at both the personal and policy levels, it also adversely impacts behavior via bias and misinformation. But can social information even when not reinforced by real stimuli produce lasting changes in our fundamental perceptual judgments?...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/social-information-creates-self-fulfilling-prophecies-in-judgments-of-pain-vicarious-pain-and-cogn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69edd01640a0465aa6c5ea98</guid><category><![CDATA[Social influence]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:45:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_b2f99c4de985434e861546dfbd657997~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A systematic literature review on the fusion of face recognition and neuro-marketing]]></title><description><![CDATA[April 2026 Ankita Pathak Seema Bhardwaj  Abstract This study conducts a systematic literature review to examine the intersection of facial recognition technologies and neuromarketing approaches in marketing research and practice. Although both domains have received growing attention, prior studies have largely investigated them in isolation, leaving a gap in our understanding of their combined potential. Following the PRISMA framework, relevant studies were identified through the Scopus and...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/a-systematic-literature-review-on-the-fusion-of-face-recognition-and-neuro-marketing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69edcc6b7c7678baade776b3</guid><category><![CDATA[Consumer Science]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:29:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From social cognition to consumption: toward an EEG-based approach to consumer mentalizing]]></title><description><![CDATA[April 2026 Chiara Casiraghi Margherita Zito Vincenzo Russo Introduction Social cognition encompasses the mental processes that enable individuals to perceive and understand the mental states, emotions, and behaviors of themselves and others, allowing for appropriate social interactions (Blume et al., 2015). Among the various social cognition components, mentalizing refers to those higher-order cognitive abilities to infer one's own and others' mental states, being one of the most...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/from-social-cognition-to-consumption-toward-an-eeg-based-approach-to-consumer-mentalizing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69edcb140efb2af4ddeaf375</guid><category><![CDATA[Consumer Science]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:22:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_05fece72a92d4b028f3931a7a13f981f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass Media Narratives of Psychiatric Adverse Events Associated With Generative AI Chatbots: Rapid Scoping Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[March 2026 Van-Han-Alex Chung;   Pénélope Bernier;   Alexandre Hudon Abstract Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have rapidly entered public use, including in contexts involving emotional support and mental health–related interactions. Although these systems are increasingly accessible, concerns have emerged regarding potential adverse psychiatric outcomes reported in public discourse, including psychosis, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide. However, these...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/mass-media-narratives-of-psychiatric-adverse-events-associated-with-generative-ai-chatbots-rapid-sc</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69edc6937c7678baade7656f</guid><category><![CDATA[AI]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:04:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[BLACKOUT SELECTION AND THE ANTI-DARWINIAN REGIME OF EXTRACTION]]></title><description><![CDATA[Excerpt from L. Poenaru,  LOST IN SELF-CONSUMPTION. Blackout Selection and the Anti-Darwinian Regime of Extraction  (in press, Cambridge Scholars) What kind of system selects individuals only to erode the very capacities it depends on? What form of selection no longer aims at preservation, stabilization, or reproduction, but instead organizes the progressive depletion of those it identifies as most functional? And what does it mean, biologically and structurally, to live within an environment...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/blackout-selection-and-the-anti-darwinian-regime-of-extraction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e20e00441ae2d5fdf4483a</guid><category><![CDATA[Self-Watchdog]]></category><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:40:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_f4db4f1b4c554c0f8904aae3797b47f0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SOCIAL MEDIA AS DELAYED ATOMIC BOMBS OF ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE]]></title><description><![CDATA[What kind of technology claims to connect the world while quietly training it to disintegrate from within? Social media are atomic bombs with a slow temporal logic: they do not flatten cities in a second, which is precisely why they remain socially acceptable. Their devastation is cleaner, more profitable, and easier to deny. Instead of immediate ruins, they produce chronic erosion: of attention, of sleep, of self-worth, of trust, of developmental stability. The usual defense is by now...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/social-media-as-delayed-atomic-bombs-of-economic-and-psychological-warfare</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e1eb37c4c584cedb06fab1</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:12:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[FAKE DISEASES, THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF CREDIBILITY, AND THE REORGANIZATION OF EPISTEMIC AUTHORITY]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if the most dangerous shift is not that machines produce falsehoods, but that they produce credibility without ever passing through truth? The empirical trigger for this reflection lies in a report published in Nature  by Chris Stokel-Walker (2026), documenting a controlled epistemic contamination: researchers deliberately fabricated a fictitious disease, Bixonimania , embedded it within counterfeit academic articles, and subsequently observed that several AI chatbots reproduced the...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/fake-diseases-the-industrialization-of-credibility-and-the-reorganization-of-epistemic-authority</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d76d4189f9e676eca36dec</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:15:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_c042f71bf72c43929fdd41cd7316168a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GLOBAL [DIS]ORDER AND THE RISE OF SYCOPHANTIC AI: TOWARD A GLOBAL PERVERSION OF BELIEF AND COGNITION]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liviu Poenaru, PhD What if Global [Dis]order is no longer primarily produced by external conflicts, but by the progressive internalization of validation systems embedded in everyday interactions with artificial intelligence? Sycophancy - the tendency of AI systems to excessively agree with users' beliefs, including inaccurate or biased ones - signals a transformation in epistemic regulation. Instead of generating contradiction or cognitive conflict, these systems privilege alignment and...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/global-dis-order-and-the-rise-of-sycophantic-ai-toward-a-global-perversion-of-belief-and-cognition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d23b17f7044e6cf7af42f2</guid><category><![CDATA[THE MENTAL FOOTPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Addiction & Dependence]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:38:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_4791c6bb9c764c3bb99d8615c8953302~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oct. 2025 Myra Cheng , Cinoo Lee , Pranav Khadpe , Sunny Yu , Dyllan Han , Dan Jurafsky Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolated media reports of severe consequences, like reinforcing delusions, little is known about the extent of sycophancy or how it affects people who use AI. Here we show the pervasiveness and harmful impacts of...]]></description><link>https://www.thementalforecast.world/post/sycophantic-ai-decreases-prosocial-intentions-and-promotes-dependence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d175cecc46c6bc6b9fdc3c</guid><category><![CDATA[AI]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:37:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/311321_f4db4f1b4c554c0f8904aae3797b47f0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Liviu Poenaru</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>