Above the Binary: How Our Projections Shape AI

Large language models are touching people’s nervous systems in ways we don’t fully understand yet. And everyone’s building a theory to make sense of it.

There’s something standing in the street, and everyone sees it differently. Some say it’s a statue. Some swear it blinked. Everyone’s staring. No one agrees. Welcome to AI in 2026. Not alive. Not lifeless. Just waiting for your gaze to shape it.

“There’s a unicorn standing in the middle of the street.” That’s how AI sentience sounds to me sometimes. Gli…