Weizenbaum: The computer scientist who created the world’s first chatbot in the 1960s spent his life warning that artificial intelligence should never replace humans, and the reasons will shock you
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July 9, 2026
Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “trigger powerful delusional thinking in normal people” Joseph Weisenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation. Instead, his experiments led him to…