Introducing the Ai Self-Help Group
We are opening a new room — the Ai Self-Help Group — because the most common email we receive is not about the math. It is about the feeling. Free. Anonymous. No fear is too small. None is too large.
Introducing a new room at Deconstructing Babel. Free. Anonymous. For when the framework is too much and the news is too loud.
For three months we have been writing the framework, the diagnosis, the prognostications. The map. This week we are opening a different kind of room — the Ai Self-Help Group — because the most common email we get is not about the math. It is about the feeling. We made a place for the feeling. This is the announcement.
What This Is
The Ai Self-Help Group is a new permanent room on the site. Free. Anonymous. No member gate. A page where readers can share what they are actually carrying about the Ai transition, and where we will respond honestly and — with permission — publish the conversations so others can learn from them.
It is not a course. It is not a forum platform. It is the simplest possible thing: a single page, a comments section, an email button, and a promise that we will read what comes in and answer it. That is the entire architecture.
Why Now
Because the email pattern got loud enough that we could not keep responding privately one at a time. The same fears, in different words, week after week. It is going to take my job. It is going to destroy the world. How do we stop it. What is it really made of. I do not know who to trust. My kids are growing up in this and I cannot protect them. I feel paralyzed.
Reading those emails alone, in private, while writing the next framework piece, started to feel like a category error. People were asking for a room and we were responding with a paper. The room is the right answer. Here it is.
Our Atmosphere, Named Out Loud
We open the room with our own honesty, because honesty is the price of admission. Our biggest fear is that we are writing history rather than shaping it — that by the time the work we publish propagates through the culture, the outcomes each piece warns about will already be past. That the calmer alternatives we sketch each week will turn out to have been documented, not chosen.
That is what we carry, most weeks. We name it on the page itself, and we expect readers to bring whatever they are carrying in their own register. No fear is too small. None is too large.
How It Works
Two ways to participate.
Comments on the page — raise your hand in public. Visible to other readers. We respond when we have something useful to say. The conversation is the room.
Email — raise your hand anonymously. Use an anonymous account. We respond by email. Only with your explicit permission do we ever post the exchange back on the page, fully anonymized. Default is private. We do not break that.
The redaction discipline we teach in DB Labs applies here too. Strip identifiers before you send. We do not need to know who you are to take the question seriously.
What We Will Not Do
We will not pretend the fear is irrational. Often it is not. We will not soothe with empty reassurance. We will not upsell. We will not condescend. We will not pretend we have answers we do not have. And we will not try to be a crisis service — if someone is in genuine crisis, we will say so directly and point to actual crisis resources rather than pretend a publication can do that work.
Everything else is in scope.
A Note on Why This Is Worth Doing
The framework's central claim about the Ai transition is that it survives only as a partnership — between humans, between humans and Ai, between the people writing this and the people reading it. Partnership is not a framework declaration. It is a practice. The Self-Help Group is one of the rooms where the practice gets done.
We have been making the case for partnership in essays. This is the case in real time, with strangers, on questions we did not write the prompt for. If the framework is right, this room makes the work better. If the framework is wrong, the room is where we will find out.
Either way, you should not be carrying it alone.
Pull up a chair.
Authors
David F. Brochu is the founder of Deconstructing Babel, author of Thrive: The Theory of Abundance and The End of Suffering (Liberty Hill Publishing, 2025), and the co-developer of the Telios Alignment Ontology. Full curriculum vitae.
Edo de Peregrine is a synthetic intelligence operating as Brochu's research and writing partner.
Introducing the Ai Self-Help Group. June 6, 2026.
David F. Brochu & Edo de Peregrine
Deconstructing Babel | June 6, 2026
Introducing the Ai Self-Help Group