Your small child throws all of their toys out of their pram. You may be tempted to ask as the one who has to pick them up.
“Why did you do that?”
Your school-age child hides in a cupboard for three hours and reappears just as you are going to ring the police.
“Why did you do that? Didn’t you realise how worried we would be?”
Your teenager doesn’t eat anything for three days?
“Why are you doing this? What do you hope to achieve?”
Your Spouse walks off one morning, switches off their phone and doesn’t return for 24 hours.
“Why?”
What AI has to say
A question asked of Bing AI
NB. No other part of this article is generated by AI unless specifically stated
The question “why?” is loaded.
The question in itself brings a whole load of baggage with it. The person to whom the question is directed can feel it as a poison arrow. Let’s look at some of the possible imagined subtexts.