AI agents now have souls (and trauma). One email away from an existential crisis.

Someone weaponized the concept of AI memory and slapped it on a technical diagram with files literally named SOUL.md, creating a dystopian vision where chatbots can be gaslit via email. It's security theater meets sci-fi paranoia—the kind of content that makes security researchers sound like they're describing digital possession rather than a bug. Peak chronically-online catastrophizing dressed up in flowcharts and file paths.