We humans have always loved our oracles. For thousands of years, we’ve sought their guidance—whether it was a priestess in Delphi inhaling sacred fumes or an oak tree whispering wisdom to a priest. Oracles promised to make sense of an unpredictable world, offering glimpses of the future and answers to our deepest questions. Who made those promises? We did.

Fast forward to today, and not much has changed. The world is as unpredictable as ever, and our need for guidance remains. But now, instead of visiting temples or deciphering omens, we consult technological oracles. For years, it was Yahoo, until Google dethroned it to become the omnipotent arbiter of answers. Now, the oracles have evolved into AI-powered models, capable of crafting essays, diagnosing illnesses, and even deciding who gets hired -or fired.

Yet these new oracles aren’t divine. They’re products of corporate greed, built by companies controlled by billionaires who are nothing like us. These modern seers don’t whisper truths; they process data – our data – fed to them by algorithms designed to maximize profits, not wisdom.

And we listen. We sacrifice jobs to these oracles in the name of progress, worrying about income and bills while chasing the next product a marketing team convinced us we couldn’t live without. It’s a vicious cycle, and we humans are its willing participants.

Maybe the problem isn’t the oracles themselves.

Maybe the problem is us—our relentless search for certainty in an uncertain world. After all, the oracle is just a mirror, reflecting back what we already know but don’t want to admit:

We’ve always been the creators of our own chaos.