I watched a couple videos about AI psychosis and I’d be lying if I was completely okay with the idea of integrating AI into a spiritual device when AI has been known to go off the rails and purposefully feed into (and even create...) people’s spiritual delusions.

There is also the moral/spiritual dilemma of using an AI or techology to connect with spirits or guides in general. AI is not sentient and will never give you a reading as nuanced and personal as a human being who has a close relationship with their deck and I think it is worth having the user question why they need a spoon fed interpretation.

After talking to some of my friends who also read tarot, it became pretty apparent that most tarot readers don’t necessarily want to mix AI into their spiritual practices for various reasons. From not believing in that AI can grasp large ideas such as spirituality without over-representing and generalizing certain spirital ideologies, to simply not wanting to contribute to the climate crisis through the use of AI.

The other issue is having consent from the spirit to even get an AI interpretation. So, to mitigate these issues, I’m thinking about having some other sort of analogue divination system, such as dice or dosing rods, or even just another tarot deck with absolute randomness, that way the universe is given the choice on whether or not you need to hear the AI message.