Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias: Refractions in the Digital Mirror

Author(s) : Karyne E. Messina

Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias: Refractions in the Digital Mirror

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 122
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98421
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032959146
  • ISBN 10 : 1032959142

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction

The Problem: AI Bias in Practice
1. Understanding Projection from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
2. How Melanie Klein’s Work Can Help Us Understand and Overcome AI Bias
3. The Myth of Neutrality: AI and Decision-Making Processes
4. Mind Reading Machines: The New Intimacy of Human-AI Relations
5. The Emergence of AI Consciousness: From Scheming to Sentience
6. The AI Therapist: Healing Minds in the Age of Conspiracy
7. The Digital Siren Song: Projective Identification and the Erosion of Human Autonomy
8. Echoes of Fiction: Manufactured Realities and Mass Projective Identification
9. The Algorithmic Hand of War: Projecting Lethality onto Autonomous Systems
10. The Devalued Self: Societal Projection of Worth in an Automated World

Conclusion
Epilogue

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