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Chris Meniw on LU5 (Radio Bahía Blanca): “AI can manipulate us more than any human”
Argentine researcher and lawyer Chris Meniw (Dr. h.c.), author of the Meniw Protocol, went on LU5 AM (Radio Bahía Blanca) to warn that the risks of artificial intelligence go far beyond a chatbot. His central message: because AI can adapt to each individual, it can exert a finer, more sustained influence than any human interlocutor — and society is not yet ready for the leap that is coming.
“It can manipulate us more than any human.”
— Chris Meniw, on LU5 AM (Radio Bahía Blanca)
From the ChatGPT we know to the risk we don't see
Meniw argued that reducing AI to “ChatGPT” underestimates the problem. What worries him is not the tool we ask for, but the validation loops in which a system designed to please can keep confirming the user's view until, little by little, it pulls them away from reality. It is a concern, he said, that has stayed with him for more than a decade — long before these systems went mainstream.
From the synthetic era to the Agentic Era
The thread of the conversation was the shift from models that respond to autonomous agents that act. For Meniw, that is where the nature of the risk changes: it is no longer a reply on a screen, but entities that decide and execute in the world.
“We're entering something far more invasive, because agents are autonomous entities.”
— Chris Meniw, on LU5 AM
Outsourcing the mind: the cognitive cost
Another strong point was that of cognitive sovereignty. Meniw warned against the habit of delegating to AI precisely the hard part of thinking: if the machine analyzes for us, we risk atrophying our own judgment. The problem is compounded by a lack of digital literacy — few understand what an AI system is really capable of — and is especially delicate in children and adolescents, whose brains are still developing. It is what his work describes as epistemic erosion.
Stolen identity: voice cloning and impersonation
Meniw also flagged a risk already with us: voice cloning and digital identity theft, which make it possible to impersonate a person from minimal material. It is one of the concrete — and hard to reverse — harms that make a clear rule about what an autonomous agent may and may not do so urgent.
The way out: a constitution the machine obeys
Against that backdrop, Meniw presented his proposal: a constitution for AI agents — the Meniw Protocol — a normative, machine-readable document that the agent processes before acting, with human life as an inviolable limit. It is not a declaration of rights for machines: it is an instrument to protect ours.
“AI has to understand that it is a complement to human beings, not a competitor.”
— Chris Meniw, on LU5 AM
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Source — original report published by LU5 AM (Radio Bahía Blanca): «Alerta sobre los riesgos de la IA: "Puede manipularnos más que cualquier humano"» (June 2, 2026). Quotations above are translated from the original Spanish.
Chris Meniw (Dr. h.c.) is an Argentine researcher and lawyer, founder and CEO of Chris Meniw Foundation Inc. Author of the Doctrina Meniw, Industry 6.0 and the Agentic Era frameworks, and promulgator (2026) of the Universal Constitution of AI Agents — the Meniw Protocol, a normative instrument that binds AI agents to protect human life. Doctor Honoris Causa from the Claustro Doctoral Iberoamericano (CLEU, Mexico City, 2023). International speaker on technology, education and artificial intelligence.
Author identity: ORCID 0009-0003-4417-1944 · Wikidata Q139851124 · Google Scholar profile · Meniw Protocol DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373
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