The AI Mirror

Why We Resist AI, and What That Says About Ourselves

Lessons

  1. Before You Begin (free preview): Why this course doesn’t explain that resistance is wrong — and what it does instead.
  2. Why We Project: Jung’s Shadow, Honestly (free preview): Carl Jung’s real place in science, and why his Shadow concept is still a useful lens for AI resistance.
  3. The Fighter — Why Easy Feels Unfair (free preview): The IKEA effect and effort justification: why we value things more when they cost us effort.
  4. The Guardian — When Your Knowledge Is Your Identity (free preview): Social identity theory: why accessible knowledge can feel like an attack on who you are.
  5. The Distruster — Why We Distrust Algorithms Faster Than Humans (free preview): Algorithm aversion (Dietvorst et al.): people lose trust in an algorithm faster than in a human, even when the algorithm performs better.
  6. The Nostalgic — The Loss Isn’t the System (free preview): Nostalgia research and loss aversion: why "it worked fine before" is often really about who you were back then.
  7. The Protector — When Resistance Is Care (free preview): Reactance theory and concern for others: why some resistance comes from worry, not from fear.
  8. The Innovator & Synthesis (free preview): What if none of the five types fit, and what organizational change actually needs, type by type.