> In September 2025, two psychiatrists at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Stephanie McNamara and Joseph E. Thornton, published a paper in the journal Cureus proposing a new construct they call Artificial Intelligence Replacement Dysfunction, or AIRD.

There is no shortage of medical professionals attempting to design a new medical condition that they are 'certified' to treat and which some government agency 'needs to fund'. This is an interesting mechanism by which these people extract greater rents from productive capacity of this country.