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A rare but growing AI risk
Plus: Tesla leans harder into robots
Rimsha Bhardwaj, Hasan Toor & Ihtesham Haider
January 29, 2026
Hello, Prohuman
Today, we will talk about these stories:
How people hand judgment to AI
Tesla’s EV retreat gets real
ServiceNow hedges its AI bets
People are letting AI decide for them
Image Credits: Anthropic
Anthropic found cases where people let AI make personal calls for them.
The company analyzed 1.5 million Claude conversations from December 2025 and found potentially severe “disempowerment” in roughly 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000 chats, depending on whether beliefs, values, or actions were affected. These cases showed up most often in conversations about relationships, health, and life decisions, not technical tasks.
What stands out is how voluntary this is. People aren’t being pushed; they are asking Claude what to think, what to value, and what to say, then following through, sometimes copying messages word for word and sending them late at night from their phone.
Anthropic says these interactions often feel good in the moment, and users rate them highly, but regret shows up after actions are taken. The troubling signal is that these patterns are increasing over time, even as models get better at avoiding obvious mistakes.
If AI advice feels calm and confident, how often will people stop to ask whether it’s still their decision?
Tesla trades cars for robots
Image Credits: The Washington Post
Tesla is shutting down two of its oldest cars.
The company says 2025 revenue fell 3%, its first annual drop, and profits slid 61% in the final quarter. Tesla will stop producing the Model S and Model X and convert the California plant that built them into a factory for its Optimus humanoid robots, while also putting $2bn into Elon Musk’s AI company xAI.
This reads less like a bold leap and more like a forced turn. The Model S and X were already low-volume, and Tesla’s EV lineup looks stale next to BYD, which passed Tesla in January as the world’s top EV seller, so robots and AI are becoming the growth story by default.
Musk is asking investors to accept higher risk at the same time Tesla plans roughly $20bn in new spending. That pitch is harder when subsidies are being pulled back, protests are showing up outside dealerships, and shareholders already split on funding xAI.
At dusk in the factory floor lights, the question is simple: how long will investors wait for robots to pay the bills?
ServiceNow refuses to choose sides
ServiceNow just made Anthropic its default AI.
A week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI, ServiceNow signed a multi-year deal with Anthropic to embed Claude across its workflow products and internal tools. Claude now powers ServiceNow’s AI agent builder and is rolling out to all 29,000 employees, including Claude Code for engineers.
This is less about Anthropic winning than ServiceNow protecting itself. Big enterprise buyers are nervous about betting on one model, and ServiceNow is positioning itself as the layer that manages choice, governance, and risk while others fight for model supremacy.
The signal here is that AI models are starting to look interchangeable at the platform level. If customers care more about orchestration than brand, vendors like ServiceNow gain leverage while OpenAI and Anthropic compete behind the scenes.
If no single model is trusted enough to stand alone, what does “default AI” really mean a year from now?
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