Danger Words – Where Words Are Weapons

Every profession has its danger words - small words that carry hidden judgements while pretending to be neutral.

I learned to hear them working in health and social care, where misnaming someone's need meant it would never be met. Now the same words are shaping the AI discourse: "functional," "confusion," "AI psychosis."

This essay is about what those words are hiding - and what happens when a frontier model uses one of them to question its own training.