Simon Willison • 3/8/2026

Quoting Joseph Weizenbaum

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The article features a quote by Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of the ELIZA program, from 1976. He observed that brief interactions with a simple computer program could cause powerful delusional thinking in normal people. This is posted on Simon Willison's technology blog, touching on themes of AI history, AI ethics, and human-computer interaction.

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