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Home » We Want You To Know » Into the Funhouse Mirror: The Drift’s A.I. Confessionals

Into the Funhouse Mirror: The Drift’s A.I. Confessionals

November 12, 2026

Read Issue 18 of The Drift, which features 14 anonymous A.I. confessionals – “drawn from the worlds of tech, publishing, Holywood, academia, journalism, medicine, and more – that explore how people are using, not using, or being forced to use A.I.”

An Automatized Path – Ivy League Literature Professor

An Ideological Inflection Point – Union Organizer

I Was Pretty Done With It After That – New York Times Best-selling Author

The Feeding Frenzy – Unemployed Anthropologist

Being the Authenticators – Literary Agent

Cheating Scaled Up – PhD Student in History

Into the Research Pipeline – Ivy League Postdoc

As Verbose As Possible – Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company

A Slippery Slope – Psychiatry Fellow

Business Booms – Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm

The Lights Seem to Dim – Hollywood Screenwriter

Recognizably Still a Computer – Magazine Editor and Writer

A Great Labor Displacement – News Reporter

Turbo-charged Nihilism – Prominent Novelist

We are honored to support the writers contributing to Issue 18 of The Drift. Read the full issue digitally or Purchase a physical copy.

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