The 2026 AI Deception and the Coming Storm

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The intentional deceptionThere is a continuous feed of disorienting news that is intentionally desensitizing you to the signal in markets, or even worse, manipulating your perception so you can’t tell what is true or what is false. All of us experience this to varying degrees as we navigate WHERE we are in the cycle. Monitoring the situation has become the new way to orient oneself to a world where extreme outcomes are building under the surface but then reveal themselves in a moment of volatility. But the dark side of being terminally online is the endless doomscrolling that comes as an unintended consequence of monitoring the situation.As a result, the closer you look, the less you see.The biggest problem I see today is that there is such a massive divergence between what people are focusing on and how the system actually functions. This divergence grows with every day that passes because AI’s retooling of every aspect of reality has converged with a surplus of liquidity, so the speed of the system is increasing, which in turn creates greater disorientation as attention and the psyoping of people become an actual form of liquidity in themselves.Many CEOs and fund managers have recognized this new environment and understand how to pitch themselves as the new meta that will change everything in the world. If you can control the way someone views the world, they will only anchor to positive developments that confirm their view and chalk up anything negative to “short-termism and impatience.” As a result, operators in financial markets are actively trying to create psychologi…