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. The study found two broad patterns among practitioners. Some used AI as a shortcut when a spread
