Speaking to no one: ontological dissonance and the double bind of conversational AI.
Medicine, health care, and philosophy May 2, 2026 Hugh Brosnahan, Izabela Lipińska 1 citation
Recent reports indicate that sustained interaction with conversational artificial intelligence (AI) systems can, in a small subset of users, contribute to the emergence or stabilisation of delusional experience. Existing accounts typically attribute such cases either to individual vulnerability or to failures of safety engineering. These explanations are incomplete. Drawing on phenomenology,...