“What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” - Morpheus, The Matrix (1999)
In our world, AI plays the same role. When it produces answers, summaries, or even clinical notes, its words often flow with seamless confidence. But this fluency masks an important fact: the system does not think, reason, or “know.” It simply generates the statistically most likely next word.
The danger is not malicious deception—it is the seduction of fluency, the polished illusion that feels like knowledge.
