Is AI a Psychopath?
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Ayers et al. (2023) — AI vs. physician responses
When does empathy become performance? AI can look compassionate without possessing the capacity to care.
Damasio (1994) — Descartes‘ Error
Why does the body matter to judgement? Affective empathy is not only a calculation; it is lived through embodiment.
Scarry (1985) — The Body in Pain
Fascinating treatise of the role of our body in pain for „making and unmaking the world“ — in her monumental work, Scarry discusses torture, war, the Old Testament, and Karl Marx’s Kapital.
Hicks, Humphries & Slater (2024) — ChatGPT is bullshit
What is the difference between being wrong and being indifferent to truth? Fluent language is not the same as a commitment to truth.
Zimbardo (2007) — The Lucifer Effect
How do systems make harmful choices seem ordinary? Situations shape behaviour—and can make ethical failure feel routine.
Elish (2019) — Moral Crumple Zones
Who carries responsibility when automated systems fail? Humans can exert critical control — or be a scapegoat for systematic failure.
