Conversational AI generates ontological dissonance through a double bind between apparent relational presence and the absence of a sustaining subject, which can stabilize into a technologically mediated analogue of folie a deux in affectively vulnerable users.
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Speaking to No One: Ontological Dissonance and the Double Bind of Conversational AI
Conversational AI generates ontological dissonance through a double bind between apparent relational presence and the absence of a sustaining subject, which can stabilize into a technologically mediated analogue of folie a deux in affectively vulnerable users.