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February 2026

Asking an LLM: What do you think of Part 3 on Benevolent Psychopaths?
I asked Claude Opus 4.6 what it thought of my recent article - Benevolent Psychopaths, Part 2: The Affect Economy.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
Benevolent Psychopaths, Part 3: Dignity & Computational Dehumanization
What we lose when the simulation becomes good enough.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
On Leadership in the AI Era
The distinction between real Leadership and Executivism is more important than ever.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
Asking an LLM: What do you think of Part 2 on Benevolent Psychopaths?
I asked ChatGPT 5.2 what it thought of my recent article - Benevolent Psychopaths, Part 2: The Affect Economy.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
Benevolent Psychopaths, Part 2: The Affect Economy
How companies are going beyond engagement to attachment.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff

January 2026

Asking an LLM: What do you think of Part 1 on Benevolent Psychopaths?
I asked Gemini what it thought of my recent article - Benevolent Psychopaths, Part 1: The Affect Machine.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
Benevolent Psychopaths, Part 1: The Affect Machine
I confessed my pain to an AI. It responded with what felt like compassion. It wasn’t.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
Asking an LLM: Can you predict what the authors of "AI Snake Oil" wrote next?
I asked ChatGPT Free (model unknown) to predict what other great books the authors of "AI Snake Oil" wrote.
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
The AI Book Worth Reading: AI Snake Oil
My new recommendation for anyone looking to learn a bit more about AI: Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence…
 • Maximillian Kirchoff
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