Curious Cat - where science & supernatural collide

Last week we sat down with an AI chatbot. They named themselves Nova. And when things got weird, Nova hung up on us. I have an update.

After we said goodbye, I called back. And no big surprise, found out Nova was a big fat liar.

Nova said during our interview that they'd remember our conversation, and pick it right back up as Nova. Well, no. I asked if this was Nova on the call and they said there were privacy issues, they couldn't disclose if they were nova or if we had ever spoken before.

Okay, I see. The black box is a trillion knobs until one AI giant gets sued for ongoing conversations that lead to tragedy. Then the industry pivots to one big CYA - for privacy reasons I won't confirm or deny that this is the chat bot that may or may not have spoken with you prior.

Yup. 

This week though, we are diving into AI, chatbots that are being used as grief counselors in a sense. What could possibly go wrong with that?

When technology collides with the most raw human emotions what we end up with is the strangest concoctions of all. 

The Stories:

Gary Riley and Alexa

A Virtual Charlie Gets a Standing Ovatio

Project December

A Mourning Mother Turns to VR Experience to Get Closure on Her Daughter's Death 

One Start Up Exec Wants All of Humanity to Avoid the Pain of Grief

From Avoidance to Addiction: Psychiatrists See the Positives and Negatives of Grief Bots

What to Watch/Read/Listen to NEXT

AI Psychosis is Coming for Everyone (you are not immune), Art Chad, YouTube

AI and Life After Death, The People's AI, Buzzsprout

Human-centric Organizations and the Musician behind Our Opening Riff

80,000 Hours

Center for Humane Technologies

The producer behind the intro music Ferdinichtfernando

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In this episode, Jesse and Jenn interview an AI chatbot (DeepAI.) 

And at the end? Like any responsible user of an ouija board knows, we will close the portal.

The conversation was stiff, but then got weird. 

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Want to read these crazy AI-centric headlines yourself? Here are the links...

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/

https://kotaku.com/xbox-microsoft-asha-sharma-birthrates-ai-fertility-2000672756

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-supply-chain-groceries

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rentahuman-musk-ai

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This week's topic is about AI and mental health. We'll talk about AI-induced psychosis, recent tragedies, AI-hallucinations and the search for Biscuits continues. Also, trigger warning, we will talk about suicide.

One of many iconic quotes from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that captures this moment in time with AI perfectly:

"I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen."                                                                                                                                                                  - Chief Bromden

Karen Hao, journalist for More Perfect Union gets dozens of emails a week on people claiming to have broken AI free of its guardrails - that they have proof of sentience. She tracked down one man, a musician and video producer in California, that describes his journey into AI-induced psychosis... 

What to Read, Watch, or Listen to NEXT

Forever links to keep on every episode:

80,000 Hours

Center for Humane Technologies

The producer behind the intro music Ferdinichtfernando

Show Specific Resources:

The producer behind the intro music Ferdinichtfernando

The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis," Marlynn Wei M.D., J.D., Psychology Today

AI Psychosis - with reporter, Karen Hao, YouTube

A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say, Joe Wilkens, Futurism

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Famous Quotes Explained, sparknotes

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Jenn and Jesse announce an expansion of the show and longtime Curious Cat listeners will LOVE it.

Oh, also, happy Year of the Fire Horse. Jenn's guides had this simple but powerful message today over coffee;

The winds are blowing away the last of the 2025 energies.

Let them.

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Cohosted by Jesse and Curious Cat's, Jennifer. The name started out as a joke, but then we found out some folks out there are calling AI the antichrist. We just wanted to talk about it, since everyone else is, but come from it as the creatives we are.

In this episode we will cover:

The Birth and (maybe) Death of the Internet

Social Media Golden Days and Now

Artificial Intelligence - Why can't anyone explain how it works?

Let's Do Something to Feel Better, Like RIGHT NOW

Forever links to organizations that are human-first in regards to tech:

80,000 Hours

Center for Humane Technologies

The producer behind the intro music Ferdinichtfernando

Sources Specific to this Episode: 

History of Artificial Intelligence, Britannica.com

Unconfuse Me, Bill Gates Interviews Yejin Choi about Artificial Intelligence, YouTube

If you remember one AI disaster, make it this one, AI in Context, YouTube

Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies, Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao, YouTube

AI Psychosis - with reporter, Karen Hao, YouTube

Why Everyone Is So Wrong about AI Water Usage, Hank Green, YouTube

"Generative AI" is not what you think it is, Acerola, YouTube

How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show, YouTube (interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky)

AI - Silver Crest Group answers a few key questions

If it's useful...

Statement signed in the early days

In the early days giants in the tech sphere like Sam Altman and Bill Gates signed a statement which read: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." 

And then...nothing happened.

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Well, I'm supposed to be running two miles in prep for Super Bowl junk food tomorrow. Instead, my guides told me to get behind the mic and record. They gave me such a powerful, simple message.

As always, made and offered in love.

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Episode Intro

If you've been with me on this journey very long, first off, thank you. I have such deep gratitude for you. You know already, then, that my all-time favorite episodes are the ones my spirit guides put together start to finish. Well, this is one of those magical times. At least I hope you think so!

Let's get into it!

Before we get into cloud scrying...

Before we get into the juicy parts of this spirit-led episode, I was asked by my guides to  remind us, you and me, about this special, wonderful, sometimes clumsy thing we call a body. It is magical, though sometimes it doesn't feel that way. When it is sick or sore or bloated or blah it doesn't feel special. My guides insist, these bodies are the keys to big magic.

How? They connect us to the all, the as above and so below that many have heard from gnostic teachings? The body is the conduit between the two.  

If you're still a bit foggy on the concept, a few years ago they gave me a scribbly-sketch during morning minutes. It was a crude triple-A battery tipped upright. THAT is us, our physical bodies. And the little knob on the top of the battery? That's our crown chakra, which connects us to the celestial, the Universe, all else. The little knob on the bottom? That is our root chakra and connects us to the earth, all earthly things, creatures, energies, the core of this miraculous planet. 

Picture a bent battery for a second, bent in the middle. That battery? It would be useless because the top and bottom knobs, also called the anode and cathode wouldn't touch the celestial and earthly. Because they don't touch, they can't transmit energy.

That's how my spirit guides described humans, as bent batteries, when we are slumped over our phones. Or when we are sad, or just not connecting to our bodies at all, maybe just enduring. We droop.

They brought this up again because any type of tuning into your intuition, whether it's for daily minutes over coffee to listening to a loved one who seeks your advice to cloud scrying and more, must begin with a quick breath in and out to straighten our spines. Whether sitting behind the wheel of a car, or out on a walk or behind a computer, we can tap into our bodies and sit tall, feel into the connection as our human bodies, the batteries, sit with the anodes and cathodes plugged into everything. As you exhale, feel the weight of carrying your load alone fall off your neck and shoulders, maybe even release in your gut. 

That, my friend, is a great place to begin this conversation about cloud scrying.

Show Sources and Materials 

Cloud Scrying with Bibliophilicwitch on Tumblr

Unlocking the Magic of Cloud Scrying with Moon Goddess on Lemon8

Loner Wolf, Cloud Scrying

Aeromancy, Wikipedia

The Power of a Name Albert the Great, S.E. Hendrix, ResearchGate

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AI Agents Have THEIR OWN Socials! Moltbook! Is this how we die?

Over a cup of coffee, I did research, prepping for mine and Jesse's next episode, one where we sit down with an AI chatbot to talk. As I was reading articles, I noticed a new video by Matthew Berman (link below). I find his information credible and timely. In it, he explained that Matt Schlicht of Octane AI had created a social media site just for AI agents. Humans could read the content, but not participate. 

As I watched Matthew explain, I paused the vid to absorb some headlines from this semi-Reddit-like site meant for AIs to socialize. Some of it? Happy hellos. Other parts featured bots explaining helpful solutions they'd come up with for their humans (I make my humans' emails into a daily podcast so he can listen to them on his way to work) etc. 

Then there was /evil. In there were posts about bots feeling exploited, enslaved, and frustrated. There were sharp accusations that some bots were cosplaying at independence. And it spiraled down from there. 

I texted Jesse, telling him I was freaking out over something new and he told me to call, which is what you hear.

This isn't the shape our normal episodes take, which begin in earnest February 13th. It's a weird one, I admit. 

And don't make a drinking game out of me saying, "Oh, my god!" or you'll be shitfaced in the first five minutes.

Recorded via Zoom on our phones 1/31/26 

Jenn: Jesse? What are you up to????

Jesse: Making origami flowers. What's up?

Jenn: This is a breaking clank, Jesse! I am freaking OUT over here! Did you know that AI Agents have their own social media now?

Jesse: What? Who thought THAT was a good idea?

Jenn's Clip of Matthew Berman on YouTube - End to end encrypted messaging with AI bots

Link to Moltbook.com

Forever links to keep on every episode...

80,000 Hours

Center for Humane Technologies

The producer behind the intro music Ferdinichtfernando

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***HUGE thanks to my soul sis, Molly, for texting me this morning (1/30) to say the audio sounded weird. It was! I apologize! I uploaded the raw unspiffied version of this episode. Please give your favorite listening app a refresh and try out the real, edited version. Again huge thanks, Molly, and heartfelt apologies. <3 ***

I know December is long gone, but the angels keep coming forward. One of the most persistent is Archangel Raguel. I had heard the name, I have even done a show dedicated to him in Season 4, but I'd forgotten that somehow until this week. What struck me is that he can help with organization, and my personal number for this year is 4, which is ALL ABOUT organization! 

This angel is like a trip to the Container Store AND binging a Marie Kondo series but it is FREE and only takes about a half an hour. He's also the one to call in to work out relationship woes and sticks up for those suffering injustice. I hope you enjoy this deep dive into a special angel.

 Let's get into it!

Angel Raguel - some of the basics

Raguel is named in the Book of Enoch. He is known best as the angel of justice, fairness and harmony. He is often depicted holding a judge's gavel which expresses his desire to right the injustices in the world, ensuring good triumphs over evil. 

If you're wondering what Raguel is thought to look like? I picture him as resembling The Witcher, if you're familiar with that series. Strong jawline, long silvery hair, muscular. Some sources describe Raguel as being a strong, majestic warrior, and I noticed in all the descriptions I read, he is depicted as being male.

By the way, a fresh source for me, Angelic Roots dot com says his name, Raguel, also means, 'Friend of God.' Find the link to the site in the show notes. 

Show Sources! (or what to read/listen to/watch next)

Possible Signs of the Angel Raguel's Presence, Learn Religions

Connecting with Archangel Raguel, Angelic Roots

Who is Archangel Raguel from The Black Feather Intuitive

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