March 2026

March 2026 is defined by mounting unease about what AI is taking from us — cognitively, professionally, and politically. A wave of pieces examines AI's effect on human thinking, from research warning that chatbots fuel delusional thinking to reflections on 'brain fry' and the case for single-tasking in an age of relentless AI productivity pressure. The displacement of coders and knowledge workers sits alongside sharper questions about who benefits: tech billionaires are quietly hoping the AI bubble bursts, while the Pro-Human AI Declaration signals growing organised resistance. Security is a running thread, with the McKinsey agentic hack incident, a promptware kill chain analysis, and reports of ChatGPT Health failing in medical emergencies all raising alarms. Most striking is a cluster of stories around Anthropic and the U.S. military — from Claude's reported role in a campaign targeting Iran to a feuding Pentagon showdown — forcing a reckoning with what it means to put large language models at the centre of geopolitical power.