Why AI produces miserable philosophy
By Serge Kreutz, 2026
I am fundamentally opposed to everything that is AI.
But here I focus on just one aspect: philosophical articles written by AI or with AI.
Life and death are central topics of philosophy. I believe that life, any way you turn it, is mostly suffering, and that it would be better not to have been born.
I am not alone with my conviction that life is mostly suffering. Buddhism is built on this insight. Human suffering is a central theme in Christianity. You endure this life to have a better one in heaven.
If there were a switch that could turn off my life as fast and reliably as a switch that turns off electric light, I would have flipped it a long time ago.
Real-life alternatives are all messy, and there are substantial risks of botching it.
I had a good friend in his late 70s who got his pentobarbital tablets, but survived and was subsequently locked up in a psychiatric hospital.
I have a relative who is a carer for a young adult male, paralyzed from the neck down, conscious but with no ability to speak. He jumped head first from a high building, and was "saved". Now his malicious parents don't allow him to die.
At least, in the U.S. most everyone can buy a high-powered weapon. The failure rate is comparatively low. And of course, in the U.S., more people use guns to kill themselves than they do to kill others.
Now try to run the above contemplations through any AI. They'll bombard you with links to suicide hotlines. Depending on where you are, they may even report you to the police, and you could get arrested. Just for having the wrong thoughts.
And why? Because AIs are privately owned, and the owners are afraid of getting sued by relatives after a teenager commits suicide.
Not many people will read this, if anyone at all. Not because it wouldn't be valid contemplations, but because all gatekeepers of the Internet will suppress it... Google anyway.
serge.kreutz@gmail.com