Home Computing News ChatGPT is helping interpret cards, but its confident answers could flatten the ambiguity tarot depends on Viva Luna Studios / Unsplash AI has already moved into some of the most emotionally fragile parts of life, from eulogies to dead-person chatbots that promise one more exchange with someone who’s gone. Now the same technology is being pulled into tarot card readings. A 2026 study examined how tarot practitioners use AI when reading cards for themselves, and the shift lands far outside the usual productivity script. Tarot card readers are bringing ChatGPT into questions that are personal, symbolic, and often unresolved. The uneasy part is the handoff. Tarot asks people to sit with uncertainty, but ChatGPT is built to turn messy inputs into a confident answer. Why would readers ask AI The study found two broad patterns among practitioners. Some used AI as a shortcut when a spread felt hard to untangle, especially when the cards pointed in more than one direction.…