In the so-called informational age, artificial intelligence has become a central dispositive in the organization of everyday life, crystallizing what Milton Santos described as the globalitarian regime: an asymmetric technical-scientific-informational environment that concentrates power, accelerates dispossession, and reshapes the conditions of human becoming. Far from a neutral tool, AI operates as a political-epistemic force that formats perception, narrows agency, and amplifies forms of dependency that must be theorized critically.

Drawing on the cultural-historical psychology of Vigotski and Luria, as well as on critical psychology (Holzkamp; Parker), this paper pretends to examine how AI can induce cognitive, physiological, and behavioral dependencies that reorganize the very architecture of subjectivity. These processes align with broader neoliberal rationalities that transform individuals into optimized data-subjects: predictable, governable, and increasingly detached from collective forms of meaning-making.

From a political standpoint, AI intensifies what Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism and what Morozov characterizes as the illusion of techno-solutionism, converting theory itself into a battleground. In dark times, marked by disinformation, authoritarian drift, social inequality and the erosion of public spheres, critical psychology theory becomes a place of resistance capable of unveiling how power infiltrates the micro-dynamics of sense-making. The idea is not merely to critique technology, but to theorize how subjects can reclaim agency under conditions of epistemic saturation and algorithmic governance. By articulating psychological theory with political economy and critical geography, the paper argues that theorizing remains a vital political practice.