"In his 1941 book, Escape from Freedom, the German psychoanalyst Erich Erich Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could be explained in part by people preferring to surrender their freedom in exchange for the reassuring certainty of subordination. AI offers a new way of surrendering that burden of having to think and decide for yourself."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment