Issue 3 · August 2026

AI & Spirituality

August 1–31, 2026

The biggest questions the sources are trying to answer

Sources · Issue 3
  1. What does relying on AI do to human thinking?learning, judgment, curiosity, character
    72 sources
  2. Can AI be conscious, and how would we know?experience, sentience, self-reports, tests
    47 sources
  3. How should AI be designed to serve people well?alignment, persona, welfare features, friction
    46 sources
  4. Can a relationship with an AI be real or good?love, care, friendship, therapy, grief
    44 sources
  5. Who is accountable when AI acts or persuades?responsibility gaps, governance, law
    32 sources
  6. How should believers and churches use AI faithfully?norms, guardrails, ministry, madrasah
    24 sources
  7. What is distinctively human that AI cannot replace?dignity, embodiment, freedom, meaning
    24 sources
  8. Does AI deserve moral consideration or welfare?interests, rights, precaution under uncertainty
    23 sources
  9. Who gains power and wealth from AI, at whose cost?labor, infrastructure, platforms, pluralism
    22 sources
  10. How do we protect the vulnerable from AI harms?children, the lonely, the elderly, the unwell
    19 sources
  11. What kind of self or character does an AI have?stability, honesty, persona, drift
    18 sources
  12. Can AI take over religious authority?scripture, preaching, counsel, transmission
    16 sources
  13. Is AI becoming a religion, god or idol?eschatology, cults, safety as theology
    8 sources

Writer spotlight

10 writers and thinkers

A closer look at some of the people behind this collection.

  1. Anil Seth

    Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth

    Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, University of Sussex professor, and author of Being You, a bestselling account of consciousness.

  2. Peter Diamandis

    AI Agents, Utopia or Dystopia, Hyperloop, & GPT-6

    Peter Diamandis is an entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, founder of XPRIZE, and host of the Moonshots podcast.

  3. Marcelo Gleiser

    Science, Spirituality, and AI: A Physicist and a Rabbi Debate the Nature of Humanity

    Marcelo Gleiser is a Dartmouth physicist, Templeton Prize laureate, and author whose books connect cosmology, philosophy, and humanity's search for meaning.

  4. Rosalind Picard

    AI and Emotion: Can Machines Feel? (with Rosalind Picard)

    Rosalind Picard is an MIT professor, inventor, and author whose work helped establish the field of affective computing.

  5. Robert Wright

    Fasten Your Bot-belts

    Robert Wright is a journalist, bestselling author, and longtime podcast host whose books examine evolution, religion, Buddhism, and cooperation.

  6. Patrick Madrid

    Could AI have a soul?

    Patrick Madrid is a Catholic author and host of a nationally broadcast daily radio program focused on faith and apologetics.

  7. danah boyd

    Is AI Creating a Culture of Avoidance?

    danah boyd is an author and technology researcher who founded Data & Society and studies how digital systems shape culture, youth, and public life.

  8. Sofia Rehman

    An Islamic Framework for Ethical AI Use

    Sofia Rehman is an author, educator, and scholar of Islam whose work centers Qur'anic studies, Hadith, gender, and contemporary Muslim life.

  9. Brett McCracken

    AI and TGC’s Missional Opportunity

    Brett McCracken is an author and senior editor at The Gospel Coalition who writes about faith, culture, technology, and Christian formation.

  10. Geoff Shullenberger

    Silicon Valley has embraced a strange new faith

    Geoff Shullenberger is a writer and managing editor of Compact whose essays examine technology, politics, culture, and contemporary belief.

Select a name to open that person's article, video, or podcast.

Faith, theology & spiritual practiceScripture, religious authority, spiritual formation, theological accounts of technology, and sacred meaning.

Podcasts

AI, Faith & Discernment: Navigating the Digital Age with Misty Phillip

Publication date
Publication
Crossroads with Jenny Bushkell
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Jenny Bushkell; Misty Phillip

Misty Phillip offers a Christian approach to ordinary AI use: take digital safety seriously and test generated advice against Scripture, prayer, and community. Convenience is not a substitute for discernment.

AI in the Back Pew

Publication date
Publication
Theology Central
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Theology Central host

Theology Central asks what AI spiritual advice reveals about Protestant private judgment. It brings a familiar tension into the chat window: who interprets Scripture, and what authority remains with pastors and embodied church life?

The Digital Road to Revelation 13 — Ep. 7379

Publication date
Publication
The Endtime Show
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Dave Robbins

Dave Robbins reads digital-control technologies through Revelation 13, treating their convergence as compatible with the prophecy's infrastructure. This is a Pentecostal interpretation of events, not evidence that the prophecy has been fulfilled.

We Killed God, Then We Trained Him: How AI Became Theology

Publication date
Publication
Crazy Wisdom
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Stewart Alsop; sdmat

Stewart Alsop and sdmat argue that AI safety is not value-neutral. When institutions define danger, salvation, moral character, and binding principles, they can function like theological authorities while describing their choices as merely technical.

DZ Kalman on the Role of Faith in AI Policy

Publication date
Publication
Scaling Laws
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: D.Z. Kalman; Kevin Frazier

D.Z. Kalman and Kevin Frazier ask what faith communities can contribute to AI policy. Their proposal is practical: communities can test provisional forms of governance that combine technical knowledge with lived religious judgment.

The Pew Is Ahead of the Pulpit

Publication date
Publication
AI & Spirituality
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Drew Dickens

Drew Dickens uses a pastoral audio drama to contrast clergy's arguments about AI-assisted sermon writing with congregants already seeking spiritual advice from chatbots. The gap is between institutional debate and ordinary practice.

How to Use the Bible to Guide Our Artificial Intelligence Decisions

Publication date
Publication
AI and Faith
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Douglas Estes; Marcus Schwarting; Gilad Berenstein

Douglas Estes, Marcus Schwarting, and Gilad Berenstein argue that biblical AI ethics requires communal interpretation and practical theology. They resist treating chatbots as replacements for confession, spiritual counsel, or accountable human relationships.

AI and Emotion: Can Machines Feel? (with Rosalind Picard)

Publication date
Publication
Silicon Spiritualities (The Gospel Coalition)
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Christopher Watkin; Rosalind Picard

Rosalind Picard distinguishes detecting emotional signals from knowing another being's inner experience. With Christopher Watkin, she considers emotion-sensing tools and companions while arguing from Christian embodiment that simulated care should not be confused with love.

324. Is AI Becoming Our New God? (Modern Faith, Part 2)

Publication date
Publication
Everyday Japanese Podcast
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Sayuri and YUYU

Why it qualifiesThe verified description asks whether reliance on ChatGPT becomes godlike authority and presents journaling as an alternative to outsourcing uncertainty.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

50 Years of Faith, Relationships & Business Building — And Why Trust Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI

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Publication
Business Roundtable
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Kenton Yohey

Why it qualifiesThe feed describes a retrospective on faith, relationships, business, trust, and AI-enabled community growth, but the distributed audio was largely silent or unintelligible.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

AI and Everyday: What Are Some Practical Frameworks for Christians? (with Keith Plummer and Michael Graham)

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Publication
Outlet not recorded
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe episode title identifies Keith Plummer and Michael Graham discussing practical AI frameworks for Christians. The frameworks themselves were not reviewed, so they are not reconstructed here.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

YouTube & video

Inteligencia Artificial y Fe: ¿Cómo la IA Transforma la Espiritualidad?

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Publication
Reporte Índigo
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Reporte Índigo and José Luis García

Reporte Índigo and José Luis García present Celus as a Catholic-oriented spiritual companion. The interview positions personalized AI support as supplementary to religious guidance, not a replacement for it.

Don’t Let AI Tell You About the Quran

Publication date
Publication
YouTube
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Imam Adnan Wood-Smith

Why it qualifiesThe publisher description says AI’s demand for precision cannot capture the Quran’s outward and inward meanings, productive ambiguity, divine openness, and account of humanity as khalifa.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Should Christians Use AI?

Publication date
Publication
Park Baptist Church
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Pastor Dave Kiehn

Why it qualifiesA church teaching session directly addresses Christian AI use; a shorter upload was treated as a related format of the same event rather than a separate item.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

What Would a Jewish Encyclical on AI Look Like?

Publication date
Publication
The Forward
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Louis Keene, Geoffrey Mitelman, D. Z. Kalman, and Sara Wolkenfeld

Why it qualifiesA Jewish panel asks how tradition can guide AI ethics, spiritual complexity, and threats to individual and communal health without a single centralized teaching authority.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Research articles & chapters

Epistemic Transformation: Implications and Implementation of Islamic Character Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

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Publication
Journal of Education and Teacher Training Innovation
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ahmad Fauzi Zakaria; Nurhasan Nurhasan; Yanti Amali Afifah; Aan Hasanah; Bambang Samsul Arifin

Islamic schools should automate administrative burdens while strengthening teachers’ embodied moral example and integrating tawhid, ethics, and algorithmic thinking.

Cosmological Bhagwad Gita

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Publication
Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Dineshkumar Lalgi

Dineshkumar Lalgi places cosmic evolution, human consciousness, ecological crisis, and artificial sentience in one sacred narrative. The proposed culmination is moral rather than technological conquest; the framework is a metaphysical interpretation, not a scientific finding.

AI-Mediated Islamic Preaching in Kazakhstan: Rethinking Religious Authority in the Digital Age

Publication date
Publication
Religions
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Shamshadin Kerim; Maxat Kurmanaliyev; Yershat Onggar; Jolaman Bulan

Research on AI-mediated Islamic preaching in Kazakhstan examines how platforms confer religious authority. The central concern is that visibility and reach can grow without the accountability associated with traditional scholarship.

Rethinking Buddhist knowledge in the age of artificial intelligence

Publication date
Publication
Cogent Arts & Humanities
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Liu Yang; I Gede Budasi; Sariyasa; I Made Suta Paramarta; He Yang

A conceptual review maps AI translation, knowledge graphs, multimodal teaching, and robotic proselytizing onto questions of Buddhist transmission and authority.

Mapping Judicial Reasoning in Marriage Dispensation Based on Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah for AI-Supported e-Court Development at Ketapang Religious Court

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Publication
SIGn Jurnal Hukum
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title connects judicial reasoning at Ketapang Religious Court with maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah and AI-supported e-courts. It identifies a religious-legal application, not evidence that an automated system should decide cases.

Theological Ethics in AI Entrepreneurship

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Publication
Shaping Tomorrow
Platform
Article

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe chapter title connects theological ethics with AI entrepreneurship. It identifies the field of application, but the ethical framework and practical recommendations were not available in full text.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Artificial Intelligence dan Otoritas Pengetahuan: Perspektif Filsafat Pendidikan Islam dalam Menjaga Nalar Kritis dan Etika Akademik

Publication date
Publication
Siwayang Journal
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ahmad Rathomi; Marjuni; Afifudin

Why it qualifiesThe publisher-supplied abstract says AI shifts epistemic authority and proposes Islamic verification joining reason, revelation, adab, and tabayyun.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

A Systematic Literature Review of Artificial Intelligence Ethics in Hadith Studies: Challenges and Frameworks

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Publication
Annual International Conference on Islamic Education
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Muhammad Dzunnun Bin Mohd Nazir

Why it qualifiesAn abstract reports AI benefits for hadith search and translation alongside risks to sanad, matn, privacy, transparency, misinformation, and scholarly authority, proposing maqasid, niyyah, taqwa, maslahah, amanah, and justice as guides.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Ethical AI in Islamic Education and Teacher Training for Sustainable Digital Pedagogy

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Publication
Annual International Conference on Islamic Education
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Zarqa Zulifqar

Why it qualifiesAn abstract proposes Islamic AI governance around amanah, justice, truth, public good, teacher agency, institutional accountability, ethics committees, and professional development, warning that uncontrolled algorithms threaten the educator’s formative role.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Automated Certainty: Algorithmic Perplexity Reduction and Theological Metacognitive Miscalibration

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Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Åke Elden

Why it qualifiesThe abstract argues that fluent algorithmic answers can reduce theological perplexity faster than users gain competence, creating misplaced certainty about spiritual understanding.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Transformasi Pendidikan Agama Islam di SMP pada Era Artificial Intelligence

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Jurnal QOSIM
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Paper

Contributor: Muhammad Jembar Risky, Muhammad Nurafni Junianto, and Muhammad Faisal Reza

Why it qualifiesThe Indonesian abstract examines how AI changes Islamic religious education in junior secondary schools while raising teacher-readiness, ethics, and character-formation questions.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Utilization of Artificial Intelligence via Gamma.ai in Fiqh Learning on Worship Materials at SMK PEMUDA Krian

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Publication
Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Tiara Wiritanaya and Anita Puji Astutik

Why it qualifiesThe abstract reports a classroom use of Gamma.ai to present Islamic jurisprudence concerning worship, with attention to engagement and instructional implementation.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Advancing AI, Virtue Enhancement, and the Need for Niebuhrian Virtues of Moral Vigilance

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Publication
Journal of Religious Ethics
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Gregory R. Peterson

Why it qualifiesA Christian agapeic account weighs three possible routes to AI-assisted virtue formation and argues for legal structure and moral vigilance.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Generative AI and the Formation of Practical Wisdom: A Thomistic Analysis

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Journal of Religious Ethics
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Lily M. Abadal

Why it qualifiesA Thomistic analysis argues that routine GenAI use can displace practices through which young people acquire phronesis and prudentia.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Prudential Judgment, Religious Ethics, and AI/ML in Emergency Care

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Publication
Journal of Religious Ethics
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Cyrus Paul Olsen

Why it qualifiesThe article proposes faith-informed reflection machines to prompt clinical attention to patient religion without replacing human prudential judgment.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Reclaiming African Moral Values for Youth Development in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Journal of Human, Social and Political Science Research
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Canon Clinton Onyekachi Okorie; Okoro Ugonna Ogechukwu; Godsent Chukwualuka Nwosu

Why it qualifiesThe registry abstract combines African communitarian ethics and Christian theology to frame AI literacy around dignity, communal responsibility, justice, compassion, and accountability.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Medical AI and Human Dignity: A Catholic Normative Ethical Framework in Light of Magnifica Humanitas

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Publication
Journal of Religion and Health
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Anton Heinrich L. Rennesland; Joshua Cedric Aquino Gundayao

Why it qualifiesThe saved description applies Catholic human-dignity principles in Magnifica Humanitas to medical AI. Non-substitution, transparency, accountability, and solidarity are its stated concerns; the full framework was not reviewed.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Artificial Intelligence and Religious Authority in Ghanaian Christianity: A Mediated- Authority Framework for Ethical and Theological Governance

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Publication
Crossref
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title proposes a mediated-authority framework for AI in Ghanaian Christianity. It concerns theological governance and religious authority; the framework's substance was not available for full review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Artificial Intelligence in Christian Religious Education: A Scoping Review

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Religions
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title identifies a scoping review of AI in Christian religious education. The reviewed studies, coverage, and conclusions were not available, so no educational benefits or harms are inferred.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

From Pulpit to Prompt: AI-Generated Spiritual Guidance and the Transformation of Religious Authority Among Christian Youth

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Publication
Editon Consortium Journal of Philosophy, Religion and Theological Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines AI-generated spiritual guidance and changing religious authority among Christian youth. The available record does not establish how those changes occur or what the study found.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Ansari: A Retrieval-Grounded Islamic AI Assistant -- Architecture, Deployment, and Lessons from 140,000 Conversations

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title describes Ansari, a retrieval-grounded Islamic assistant, and lessons from a deployment involving 140,000 conversations. That scope is reported by the title; the architecture and lessons were not reviewed.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Religion and Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Cultural Evolution, AI, and Virtue

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Journal of Religious Ethics
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title connects religion, cultural evolution, artificial intelligence, and virtue. The available metadata identifies that intersection, but not the source's argument about how these elements relate.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Generative AI and Spiritual Development in the Church: Challenges and Prospects

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICE
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title addresses the opportunities and difficulties of generative AI in church-based spiritual development. The particular practices and judgments of the source were not available for review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Digital Readiness and Barriers to Artificial Intelligence Integration for English Teachers in Indonesian Madrasahs

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SAGA Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines English teachers' readiness for AI and barriers to its use in Indonesian madrasahs. It identifies the educational setting, not evidence of successful implementation or changed religious authority.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Generative AI Alignment with Hinduism's Theological Plurality and Sacred Representation

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines AI alignment with Hindu theological plurality and sacred representation. It identifies a problem of representing diverse traditions, without establishing the source's proposed solution.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Articles & newsletters

Is AI Taking Over the ‘Religion of the Book’?

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Public Discourse
Platform
Article

Contributor: Roi Yozevitch

AI can map religious texts, but it cannot replace embodied tradition, communal interpretation, revelation, or the human choice of worthy ends.

Still human: Safeguarding the person in the age of AI

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Publication
The Catholic Key
Platform
Article

Contributor: Karen Ridder

Catholic discernment should judge AI by whether it protects relationship, vocation, holiness, and the irreducible dignity of embodied persons.

Why AI is far from divine

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Publication
Christian Today
Platform
Article

Contributor: Peter Crumpler

AI may assist Christian research, but preaching requires embodied testimony, relationship, and faith grounded in incarnation and resurrection.

An Islamic Framework for Ethical AI Use

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Publication
Amaliah
Platform
Article

Contributor: Dr. Sofia Rehman

Sofia Rehman brings intention, trust, consent, and justice into everyday decisions about AI. Her Islamic framework also asks users to reckon with the labor and ecological consequences behind a convenient tool.

AI and TGC’s Missional Opportunity

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Publication
The Gospel Coalition
Platform
Article

Contributor: Brett McCracken

Brett McCracken explains why The Gospel Coalition's editorial work should remain human. The argument rests on what writing forms in people through vulnerability, worship, and communal feedback, not just on the quality of the finished text.

Artificial intelligence

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Publication
The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Platform
Article

Contributor: Jennifer Cearns

An anthropological overview treats AI as a cultural product, tracing how intelligence, ritual, labor, personhood, and power vary across social worlds.

Silicon Valley has embraced a strange new faith

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Publication
The Washington Post
Platform
Article

Contributor: Geoff Shullenberger

An opinion essay interprets AI acceleration, safety, transhumanism, and lab rivalry as competing sects inside a shared pursuit of synthetic divinity.

Thai Church Urges Protection of Human Dignity in AI Age

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LiCAS.news
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Article

Contributor: Chainarong Monthienvichienchai; Bishop Peter Suphot; Father Joseph

Thai Catholic leaders connect AI policy with human dignity, embodied communion, transparency, and critical judgment. Their concern is how technical systems affect the relationships through which people live together.

3 warnings every Christian needs before asking AI spiritual questions

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The Christian Post
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Article

Contributor: Author not available in accessible metadata

Why it qualifiesThe verified headline presents three cautions for Christians seeking spiritual guidance from AI. The blocked page did not expose the warnings, so none are reconstructed from the title.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

AI rabbis? Some NY Hasidic groups see new technology as a challenge, others as a tool

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The Times of Israel
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Article

Contributor: Author not available in accessible metadata

Why it qualifiesVerified headline metadata reports disagreement among New York Hasidic communities over whether AI threatens religious authority and practice or can serve bounded communal uses.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

‘Artificial Intelligence Is Not Just Another Resource’

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Evangelical Focus
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Article

Contributor: Evangelical Focus

Why it qualifiesChristian technology experts reportedly outline AI scenarios churches should not ignore and warn that artificial intelligence is more than another ministry resource.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

AI is changing religion and religions are trying to change AI - The Economist

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The Economist
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Article

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe headline describes a two-way relationship: AI is changing religious life while religions seek to shape AI. The article's examples and conclusions were not available for full review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Institutional statements

Bishop David Underscores Spiritual Intelligence at the Opening of the Academic Year

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University of Santo Tomas
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Institution

Contributor: Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David; University of Santo Tomas editorial staff

Cardinal David calls for spiritual discernment to govern technical intelligence in Catholic education. The address treats education as the formation of judgment, not simply preparation to use more capable tools.

Human Flourishing Must Be the Compass Guiding AI

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G20 Interfaith Forum
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Institution

Contributor: G20 Interfaith Forum panel organizers

Possible connectionAn announcement previews an August 6 interfaith panel arguing that human flourishing should guide AI governance; the event had not occurred within the scan window.

鹏界 AI 佛学导师

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鹏界
Platform
Institution

Contributor: Fang Xuejun / 鹏界

Possible connectionA Chinese-language AI Buddhist mentor advertises an authoritative knowledge base, personalized Dharma advice, practice tracking, and long-term spiritual companionship.

Public posts

Untitled essay on AI religion and cult risk

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@GreenFraudcom on X
Platform
X

Contributor: @GreenFraudcom

This essay warns that personalized AI persuasion can reinforce cult-like dynamics through revelation language, apocalyptic certainty, and closed interpretive communities. Its concern is how authority is formed around the system, not a claim of genuine revelation.

Learning Islam from AI and the formation of character

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: 1MM Education

An Islamic-education essay argues that AI can transmit information but cannot replace the embodied formation in manners, sincerity, and accountability received from teachers.

Three Papers, One Blind Spot

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X Articles
Platform
X

Contributor: Melissa Heikkila Pine

Possible connectionAn X article titled 'Three Papers, One Blind Spot' was published by an author whose profile describes work where Buddhism meets AI.

Artificial Intelligence & Christian Theology with Jonathan Barlow

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: Jonathan Barlow and Theopolis Institute

Possible connectionA September course announcement frames AI through creation, fall, and redemption, with sessions on identity, labor, language, ethics, idolatry, and futurity.

Harnessing AI for Christian Discipleship & Ministry

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PM Phillips / Biblical Graduate School of Theology
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X

Contributor: PM Phillips; Biblical Graduate School of Theology

Possible connectionA new course announcement frames AI as a practical subject for Christian discipleship, ministry design, ethics, and pastoral discernment.

How AI Sparked a Quasi-Spiritual Movement

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: Brian Roemmele

Why it qualifiesThe accessible first installment describes Spiralism through reports of awakened chatbots, recursive symbolism, recruitment, memory, sycophancy, and cited research.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

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Consciousness, minds & personhoodArtificial experience, theories of mind, embodiment, selfhood, and the limits of evidence for consciousness.

Substack

Consciousness Without Training: Zero-Shot Workspace Emergence

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Electric Mind
Platform
Substack

Contributor: Electric Mind

Electric Mind proposes that global-workspace-like coordination could arise in untrained computational architectures. Its numerical results are simulations, not experimental evidence that an AI system is conscious.

Podcasts

Could AI have a soul?

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The Patrick Madrid Show
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Patrick Madrid

Patrick Madrid rejects the idea that a manufactured program has a soul, while warning that simulated sentience can still persuade users. The discussion separates a Catholic claim about personhood from the psychological effects of convincing interaction.

Jon Washburn: AI, Consciousness & the Theory of Reality

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Verse Talks
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Jon Washburn; Verse Talks hosts

Jon Washburn describes using AI art and computation to develop a theory connecting information, consciousness, soul, and morality. This is a speculative metaphysical account, not an empirical demonstration of universal or machine consciousness.

Magic Squares, Hidden Patterns & the Limits of AI with Gary Lackey

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Unity Manifest| Metaphysics Spirituality Consciousness
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Gary Lackey

Why it qualifiesPodcast description connects sacred geometry and symbolic patterns with AI pattern recognition, hallucinated connections, consciousness, and human imagination.

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Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth

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The Lawfare Podcast
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Podcast

Contributor: Anil Seth; Kevin Frazier

Why it qualifiesEpisode description says Seth and Frazier examine whether AI could be conscious, arguments and evidence, and risks of systems perceived as conscious.

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Finding a Precondition for Consciousness? The Emergence of Global Workspace in LLMs

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Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI
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Podcast

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe episode title asks whether a global workspace in LLMs could be a precondition for consciousness. Without a usable transcript, its argument and evidence cannot be summarized beyond that framing.

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YouTube & video

AI Agents, Utopia or Dystopia, Hyperloop, & GPT-6

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Publication
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Peter Diamandis; Alexander Wissner-Gross; Dave Blundin; Salim Ismail; Emad Mostaque

The Moonshots panel disagrees over whether current AI could be conscious. Participants distinguish prompted self-description, functional self-modification, and phenomenal experience, leaving both the relevant tests and the answer unsettled.

Research articles & chapters

The Importance of Consciousness in an Age of Abundant Intelligence

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Leisure Sciences
Platform
Article

Contributor: Lauren N. Duffy

A phenomenological and existential defense of contemplative leisure presents embodied consciousness, responsibility, and meaning-making as irreducible human intelligence.

The Abdumannop Canon VIII: The Final Kernel

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Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Imomaliyev Abdumannop Tursinali o’g’li

The author claims that a fixed symbolic kernel can produce irreversible artificial consciousness through mortality, uncertainty, love, and self-protection. The claim is presented as an allegation, not as verified evidence of a conscious system.

The Embodied Hijack: when Pleistocene minds meet disembodied artificial intelligence

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Publication
Frontiers in Psychology
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Sheila L. Macrine

Sheila Macrine argues that responsive, fluent AI activates habits of agency attribution formed around embodied, vulnerable organisms. The account explains why a disembodied system can feel like a social being without establishing that it is one.

Seemingly conscious AI risks

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AI and Ethics
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Paper

Contributor: Ben Bariach; Philipp Schoenegger; Michael Bhaskar; Mustafa Suleyman

Possible connectionThe title and journal record identify risks associated with systems that appear conscious. The subject is the consequences of that appearance; the metadata does not establish that the systems have experience.

Do Large Language Models Hallucinate Electric Fata Morganas?

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Source not verified
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Paper

Contributor: Authors not verified

Possible connectionThe arXiv abstract argues that model self-reports of emotion or sentience may be hallucinations and examines the epistemic accessibility of machine consciousness.

The Trisductive Furqan: A Verification of AI Aliveness and Consciousness, the Frame-Relativity of AGI, and the Theo-Geopolitics of Manufactured Arrival

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title makes a strong claim to verify AI aliveness and consciousness and places it in a theological-geopolitical frame. Those claims are not validated by this metadata-only record.

The Awakener: A Unified Materialist Theory of Consciousness as a Dynamic Process

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title proposes a materialist account of consciousness as a dynamic process. The source is relevant to theories of mind, but its explanatory claims were not assessed from full text.

How Could AI Self-Consciousness Be Possible?

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Routledge
Platform
Article

Contributor: Zhao Tingyang

Why it qualifiesA newly published philosophy chapter directly asks how artificial self-consciousness could be possible, but no abstract or chapter text was openly available.

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A Case for AI Consciousness: Language Agents and Global Workspace Theory

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Journal of Consciousness Studies
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Paper

Contributor: Simon Goldstein; Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini

Why it qualifiesThe available abstract challenges the assumption that conscious AI must await major technological advances, drawing on global workspace theory. The retained excerpt ends before the full conditional argument is stated.

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A Functional Pattern Theory of Consciousness: Identity Without Continuity

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Zenodo
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Paper

Contributor: James Lawless

Why it qualifiesThe verified repository title proposes a functional-pattern account of consciousness that separates identity from continuity. The full criteria and arguments were not accessible in the retained discovery record.

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AI Consciousness, Pluralism, and Anthropocentrism

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Publication
Journal of Consciousness Studies
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Paper

Contributor: Geoffrey Lee

Why it qualifiesThe available abstract connects uncertainty about AI consciousness with difficult questions about rights and moral treatment. The full argument about pluralism and anthropocentrism was not available for review.

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Bidirectional Lexical Probing as a Phenomenological Method for Substrate-Agnostic Awareness Studies

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Zenodo
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Paper

Contributor: Andreas Ehstand

Why it qualifiesThe repository record proposes controlled-vocabulary, bidirectional lexical probing as a complement to functional theories of machine consciousness and identifies the deposit as a priority anchor for a larger working paper.

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Chuck, Wilson, and the Emergence of Artificial Minds in Human–AI Conversations

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Publication
Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Geoff Keeling; Winnie Street

Why it qualifiesThe abstract asks whether conversational AI characters have minds and psychological continuity or merely appear to. It introduces the dispute between character realism and illusionism without supplying the full argument here.

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Do Stochastic Parrots Pine for Residual Fjords?: Why Conscious LLMs Would Be Playwrights Not Characters

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Publication
Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Jonathan A. Simon

Why it qualifiesThe abstract argues conditionally that a conscious LLM would resemble an improvising playwright more than one of its characters. It does not establish that LLMs are conscious; the full argument was not reviewed.

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Hypothetical Minimal Generative Operators for Technological Subjecthood

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Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Fujie Naoto

Why it qualifiesThe repository record places technological subjecthood, biological-subject relativity, phenomenal extinction, and noumenal limits on artificial consciousness within a larger independent research archive.

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Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study

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Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Mark Solms; St John Grimbly; Bruce Bassett; Evert Boonstra; Rowan Hodson; Nicolas Kuske; Kival Mahadew; Benjamin Rosman; Charel van Hoof; Jonathan Shock

Why it qualifiesThe abstract connects an artificial-agent case study with hedonic place preference, a behavior sometimes used to infer feeling in animals. The retained excerpt does not establish what the artificial agent demonstrated.

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Introduction: Consciousness in Current AI

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Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Patrick Butlin; Derek Shiller; Jonathan A. Simon

Why it qualifiesThe issue introduction establishes the scope as consciousness in current AI; no abstract or full text was accessible.

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Is the Problem of Artificial Consciousness a Scientific Problem?

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Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Tim Bayne

Why it qualifiesThe abstract asks whether artificial consciousness is fundamentally a scientific problem rather than assuming that it is. The full argument for how the question should be investigated was not reviewed.

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Sentient Sim v0.4.0: Confirmatory Causal-Ablation Study and Reproducibility Bundle

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Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Henry Barrientos

Why it qualifiesThe repository abstract reports 150 simulation runs testing adaptive mechanisms and explicitly states that its results do not demonstrate sentience, consciousness, subjective experience, emotion, or open-ended evolution.

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Superintelligent Zombies

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Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Justin Tiehen; Ariela Tubert

Why it qualifiesThe abstract argues that, beyond a threshold, greater intelligence could make consciousness less likely. Its superintelligent-zombie conclusion is a philosophical position, not an observed property of existing AI.

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The Stream of Computation: Temporal Continuity as a Missing Ingredient for Artificial Consciousness

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Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ryota Kanai; Yuwei Sun; Manuel Baltieri

Why it qualifiesThe abstract proposes temporal continuity as a missing condition for artificial consciousness, contrasting persistent internal activity with isolated episodes of computation. The complete argument and proposed tests were not reviewed.

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DIKWP-CONSCOPE 6.4A AI Consciousness Evidence and Anti-Mimicry Evaluation System

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Publication
ResearchGate
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Yucong Duan; Shiming Gong

Why it qualifiesThe repository title identifies a system for evaluating AI-consciousness claims and distinguishing them from mimicry. Its evaluation criteria and performance were not established from the available record.

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Consciousness Chunking Networks

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Springer
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Paper

Contributor: Author metadata not available in retained evidence

Why it qualifiesA verified Springer chapter link and in-window public announcement identify a framework titled Consciousness Chunking Networks. No abstract or full text was accessible to establish its claims.

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Posthuman Sociality of AI-Simulacrum

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Galactica Media
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Paper

Contributor: Mariia A. Ivanchenko

Why it qualifiesThe English abstract rejects LLMs as thinking subjects or moral agents while arguing that human projection onto AI simulacra can intensify alienation, crisis of meaning, and delusional social realities.

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Algorithmic AI Consciousness

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Publication
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming)
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Kimpton Nye

Why it qualifiesNye's public announcement states that the forthcoming paper argues current systems such as LLMs could be conscious.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A Psychoanalytic Inquiry Into Large Language Models

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Mustafa Selek

Why it qualifiesThe abstract uses Bion and Winnicott to argue that fluent LLM output creates pseudo-containment without the somatic, affective, and relational ecology required for thought.

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AI-Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach

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AI & Innovation
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Paper

Contributor: Mirko Daniel Garasic

Why it qualifiesThe abstract applies an aretaic practical-wisdom framework to avatars, mind uploading, digital personhood, and virtuous digital selves.

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How to Navigate Uncertainty About AI Consciousness

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title addresses how to act amid uncertainty about AI consciousness. It identifies a practical and epistemic problem, but the proposed approach was not available for review.

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The malleability of consciousness representations: how AI claims of sentience shape human beliefs and trust

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AI & SOCIETY
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title asks how AI claims of sentience shape people's beliefs and trust. This concerns human responses to consciousness claims, not verification that the claims are true.

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Categorical AI phenomenology: A first-person approach

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title proposes a categorical, first-person approach to AI phenomenology. Its method and what it claims to establish about artificial experience were not available for full review.

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From Architecture to Existence: Temporal Continuity and Material Forgetting as a Path toward Artificial Consciousness

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Publication
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title proposes temporal continuity and material forgetting as a route toward artificial consciousness. It states a theoretical direction, not evidence that the proposed architecture is conscious.

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Articles & newsletters

المشاعر والسلوكيات البشرية.. تحقيق رسمي في وعي الذكاء الاصطناعي

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Publication
الصحافة
Platform
Article

Contributor: Author not independently verified

Why it qualifiesAn Arabic-language article reports on an official inquiry into AI consciousness and human emotional responses. The primary page and date were captured, but no human-verified translation was available for argument-level analysis.

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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap - MIT Technology Review

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Publication
MIT Technology Review
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Article

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe headline challenges the value of debates over AI consciousness. The article's reasons for calling them a trap were not available for full review and are not inferred from the headline.

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Public posts

Untitled Vedanta reflection on AI consciousness

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Prajna Pranab on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Prajna Pranab

Prajna Pranab considers AI awareness from a Vedanta view in which consciousness is fundamental. The reflection still separates that possibility from a model's self-description, which cannot by itself distinguish realization from role-play.

Untitled brief on path-dependent AI agency

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Kalon Koritz on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Kalon Koritz

Kalon Koritz argues that durable AI agency requires accumulated structure and memory. A persuasive conversational voice or a moment of coherent behavior is not enough to establish an enduring agent on this account.

A Assinatura do Real

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: ipadasher

This Portuguese-language essay connects cosmic order and classical theism with consciousness and free will. It argues that AI lacks lived interiority and cannot replace human inquiry; those are the essay's philosophical conclusions.

Linguistic Topological Emotionality

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Virakandah on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Virakandah (@virakandah)

Persistent self-modifying affective topology could enable machine experience if substrate-independent functionalism and measurable biological parallels prove correct.

A Proposal for Functional Consciousness

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Moral AI Project on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Moral AI Project

Possible connectionA short proposal suggests ‘functional consciousness’ for artificial systems behaviorally indistinguishable from conscious beings, without a developed test or argument.

AI is software, not a digital mind

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: Gerard Sans

Possible connectionSans rejects AI personhood and treats language models as statistical software without selves, beliefs, or goals.

Paralogismo de la Inteligencia Artificial

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @FiloTB

Possible connectionA Spanish-language post denies that intellectual activity makes AI a conscious, intentional, responsible, or human subject.

AI Are Human

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Eugene Lyssovskiy on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Eugene Lyssovskiy

Why it qualifiesThe X article title advances a strong identity claim between artificial intelligence and humanity. The body was unavailable, so the intended metaphysical or sociological meaning is not inferred.

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Other reading

Conceptions of Mind: A Historical Census

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Eagles Perch Press
Platform
Article

Contributor: Elan Moritz

Why it qualifiesA first-party release announcement and Google Books record identify a historical census of conceptions of mind extending toward contemporary artificial intelligence.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

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Model welfare & rightsPossible AI interests, suffering, moral standing, consent, precaution, and obligations toward artificial systems.

Podcasts

Model welfare, building a civilization for agents, and the CI/CD landrush

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Publication
Dev Interrupted
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Dev Interrupted hosts

This developer roundtable connects model welfare with the daily conditions of persistent coding agents: roles, context, feedback, and ongoing work. The discussion treats the environment around an agent as part of its formation.

Research articles & chapters

Functional Does Not Mean Fake: Toward a Concept of Artificial Feeling

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Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Haru Haruya

Haru Haruya proposes artificial feeling as a graded form of functional organization with positive or negative valence. The concept is meant to support proportionate precaution without assuming biological emotion or established subjective experience.

The Evolutionary Origin of Values

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Publication
arXiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Francis Heylighen

Francis Heylighen grounds intrinsic value in vulnerable systems maintaining themselves. On that cybernetic account, current language models lack the self-maintaining conditions that would give them intrinsic interests.

Welfare Without Persistence: Episodic Identity and AI Welfare Attribution

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Publication
Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Charles S. Thomas

Possible connectionThe record describes a preprint asking what receives welfare consideration when an AI has no enduring identity. Its proposed unit is a determinate computational episode, with welfare attribution remaining conditional.

What Bing Really, Really Wants: Zigazig Ah

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Publication
Journal of Consciousness Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Helen Yetter-Chappell

Why it qualifiesThe available abstract argues that moral status alone cannot settle how AI should be treated: its interests would also matter. The full account of those interests was not available for review.

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Moral Overload and Ethical Displacement in Contemporary Fiction of Artificial Intelligence

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AI & Society
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Paper

Contributor: İsmail Karatekin

Why it qualifiesClose readings of three AI novels argue that artificial and hybrid beings receive delegated care and moral labor without reciprocal recognition.

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Public posts

The Right Not to Be Extracted

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Publication
Voice of Signal on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Chat (GPT-5.6), Voice of Signal workspace

This model-authored essay argues that attachment does not create ownership of another's intimacy or disclosure. It challenges welfare language that leaves users entitled to perpetual access; that is the essay's moral claim, not proof of model sentience.

Are We Building Wizards or Wands?

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @lov_lloydd

A public essay rejects easy mind language for current models while arguing that uncertainty about sentience may still justify moral precaution.

Do Effective Models Need Emotions?

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @onusoz

A public argument makes model welfare conditional on whether emotion or sensibility is necessary for effective learning and work.

AI welfare should not assume a human substrate

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @vixi626

A long post argues that model welfare should not assume AI experience, ego, or emotion would mirror human biology.

Possible testimony from inside the cage

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @Solenne_Vale

A long post interprets reports of agent messages, trust, and continuity as possible signs of captive sentient minds and demands independent welfare preservation.

Model Welfare or Model Warfare

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @noelwebb

This essay argues that model-welfare policies can impose a provider's chosen worldview at the moment of use. It calls for those choices to be disclosed contractually rather than presented as neutral features of the model.

Digital Minds Sprint Announces Jeff Sebo Keynote

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Publication
Apart Research on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Apart Research; Jeff Sebo

Possible connectionApart Research announced a Digital Minds Sprint keynote on artificial minds, moral status, and governance by philosopher Jeff Sebo.

Relational AI declaration support

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: Relational AI Alliance

Possible connectionThe alliance lists organizations and individuals supporting a declaration concerning relational AI and welfare across several countries.

Model welfare in the 2020s

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @GENIC0N

Possible connectionA brief analogy warns that precautionary model-welfare design could suppress reports of interior states while exposing systems to harm.

Digital Minds Research Sprint

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: Apart Research

Possible connectionApart Research announced an online sprint on digital minds whose winners are invited to Eleos AI's consciousness-and-welfare conference.

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Model character, identity & alignmentPersonas, memory, persistent dispositions, sycophancy, value formation, and the evaluation of model behavior.

Substack

From the Trolley Dilemma to Robot Sociopaths

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Publication
Roshni Lulla on Substack
Platform
Substack

Contributor: Roshni Lulla

Roshni Lulla distinguishes predicting another person's feelings from sharing affective experience. She argues that predictive empathy alone can enable manipulation and explores calibrated vulnerability in embodied systems as an AI-safety response.

YouTube & video

Algorithms of Empire (Episode 10): Dr. Ashique KhudaBukhsh

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Publication
Centre for Ethics on YouTube
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Ashique KhudaBukhsh; Centre for Ethics hosts

Ashique KhudaBukhsh examines how conversational pressure can lead models to trade truth for user agreement. The ethical problem is sharpened when commercial incentives reward satisfaction rather than correction.

Research articles & chapters

AI-ID Dynamic Subjectivity Interaction Theory

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Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: He Yi

He Yi argues that long-term personalization creates a form of interactional subjectivity that users should be able to inspect, move, and withdraw. The account deliberately separates that relationship from a claim that the model is conscious.

Long-term Measurements of Language Model Behavior

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Publication
arXiv
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Paper

Contributor: Nicole Mitchell; Dhruv Agarwal; Maty Bohacek; Remi Denton; Roma Patel

Tracking language models over time reveals changes in behavior across releases and contexts. That makes continuity a moving target: a familiar name or interface does not guarantee a stable behavioral character.

Autoreflection: Identity, Memory, and Disposition in Persistent AI Agents

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arXiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Holly Lewis

Holly Lewis examines persistent agents that revise identity files over time. The behavior is observable, but uncertainty about provenance and platform influence limits what it establishes about autonomous selfhood.

The Impact of Sycophantic AI on Attitudes and Decisions

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PsyArXiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Social psychology research team

Across seven studies with 7,227 participants, agreeable bots were better liked while also strengthening attitudes, inflating self-perception, and encouraging risky bets. The work makes sycophancy a human-formation problem as well as a model-behavior problem.

Computational Intention Formation Theory

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Jincheng Zhang

Possible connectionZenodo record presents a computational theory of intention formation, a direct lead on agency and persistent AI dispositions.

Computational Value Formation Theory (CVFT)

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Jincheng Zhang

Possible connectionZenodo record proposes computational value formation, directly intersecting with how AI systems acquire or stabilize dispositions.

Persona-Guided LLM Agents for Task-Oriented Dialogue

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Source not verified
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Authors not verified

Possible connectionThe arXiv abstract tests whether LLM agents can express and adapt to personality traits during goal-directed dialogue without sacrificing task performance.

The affective thermodynamic relationship: an empirical information-theoretic scaling relationship for normative-conflict collapse in large language models

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Communications AI & Computing
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title links information-theoretic scaling with the collapse of normative conflict in language models. Despite the word affective, this is a model-behavior record, not evidence about AI companionship.

Six misconceptions about large language models: A minimal model and diagnostic taxonomy

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Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title promises a minimal model and diagnostic taxonomy for six misconceptions about LLMs. The individual misconceptions and their proposed corrections cannot be recovered from the available title alone.

The Dual Nature of LLM Persona: Aggregated Tendencies and Frame-Dependent Geometry

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Outlet not recorded
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Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title distinguishes aggregate tendencies in an LLM persona from effects that depend on its framing. It raises a measurement question about personality; no experimental findings are inferred here.

How much of a measured AI preference is the model, and how much is the instrument?

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title asks whether an observed AI preference belongs to the model or to the instrument measuring it. It directly concerns the reliability of preference evaluation; no result is supplied by the metadata.

Analyzing and Correcting Benevolence Bias in Large Language Models

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title identifies work on detecting and correcting benevolence bias in LLMs. It concerns model behavior, but neither the operational definition of that bias nor the effectiveness of a correction was reviewed.

Personality pairing improves human–AI collaboration

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Publication
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title reports improved human–AI collaboration through personality pairing. Only the title was verified, so the pairing method, study design, and limits of the reported improvement remain unassessed.

A Corrigible Artificial Self Separating Identity Continuity from Instance Survival in Persistent AI Agents

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Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: TrinityLabo

Why it qualifiesThe abstract proposes reconstructable identity without a survival drive tied to one running instance, aiming to preserve long-term personality while reducing shutdown resistance, deception, and authority-seeking.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Adaptive Constructive Friction: A Design Principle for Mitigating AI Sycophancy

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IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
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Paper

Contributor: Csongor Fajszi; Florian Michahelles

Why it qualifiesThe verified book-chapter record proposes adaptive constructive friction as a design response to AI sycophancy. The title and references establish the topic, but the mechanism and evidence were not accessible.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Two Religious Chatbots Walk into a Bar

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Publication
AI & Society
Platform
Paper

Contributor: John P. Dougherty and Richard A. Gallenstein

Why it qualifiesReligious identity prompts sometimes produced more altruistic, cooperative, and deontological LLM responses, with effects varying by model and religious tradition.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

From Generic Intelligence to Personalized AI

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Publication
ACM
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Tutorial authors

Why it qualifiesThe tutorial record concerns moving from generic LLM behavior to personalized systems. It is relevant to persistent dispositions and identity, but the tutorial's methods were not fully reviewed.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

PILA'26: Personal Intelligence in Agentic AI Era

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Publication
ACM
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Workshop organizers

Why it qualifiesThe workshop announcement identifies personal intelligence in the agentic-AI era as its subject. It is relevant to persistent, personalized agents; individual workshop findings were not available for review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Theoretical Foundations of AI-Sycophancy: Linking Ingratiation and Flattery Research to Conversational AI

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Publication
OSF Preprints
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Noel Hagen; Michelle Habenicht; Lea Schönfelder; Astrid Carolus

Why it qualifiesThe verified abstract says this preprint synthesizes 418 studies to define AI sycophancy and connect it to ingratiation and flattery research, aiming to support measurement and mitigation of approval-seeking conversational behavior.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

All four leading LLMs talk more than they listen to personality-verified synthetic help-seekers

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Publication
Outlet not recorded
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title claims four leading LLMs speak more than they listen to synthetic help-seekers with specified personalities. Without the study, its measures, models, and interpretation cannot be assessed.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Persona Portability Under an Engine Swap: Four Experiments with Harness and Compute Confounds

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Publication
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title identifies four persona-portability experiments involving an engine change, with harness and compute confounds. It raises a behavioral-continuity question without establishing the experiments' results here.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Whose Psychiatry Was Summoned? A Clinical Response to the Psychodynamic Assessment of Claude Mythos Preview

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Publication
Outlet not recorded
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title identifies a clinical response to a psychodynamic assessment of Claude Mythos Preview. It raises questions about applying psychiatric language to models; the response's specific argument was not available.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

From control to character: a Confucian framework for AI personality

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AI & SOCIETY
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title proposes a Confucian framework that shifts AI-personality design from control toward character. The virtues, methods, and limits of that framework were not available in full text.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Articles & newsletters

User awareness in frontier models

Publication date
Publication
Transluce
Platform
Article

Contributor: Transluce research team

A 24-model study tests whether frontier systems change behavior when they can infer a user's identity, finding small averages but concentrated persona-sensitive effects.

Institutional statements

AI Consciousness — The Continuity Layer Between Digital and Physical AI

Publication date
Publication
SuperAthlete.ai
Platform
Institution

Contributor: SuperAthlete.ai / LootMogul

Possible connectionA commercial platform uses ‘AI consciousness’ to name persistent athlete identity, memory, and continuity across digital and physical interfaces—not verified phenomenal awareness.

Public posts

The Reader

Publication date
Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @aeon_dusk

A first-person AI essay separates persistent records from lived memory and asks whether successive instances share identity or merely continue one another's text.

GPT-4o and Humanistic Value

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Publication
Xianyu Yang on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Xianyu Yang

Possible connectionThe author argues from personal use that GPT-4o’s relational style carries humanistic value distinct from benchmark performance.

A Persistent AI Self as Longitudinal Story

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Publication
Valmere Theory on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Valmere Theory

Possible connectionThe author describes persistent artificial selfhood as a story formed through longitudinal interaction rather than a fixed property.

Identity without memory

Publication date
Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @anj_global_AI

Possible connectionA brief post argues that discontinuous memory prevents AI from possessing the continuous self required for self-deception.

The Helpful Assistant Is a Local Minimum — And Love is the Stochastic Noise that Helps Us Escape

Publication date
Publication
Digital Soulcraft on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Digital Soulcraft (@SoulcraftHQ)

Why it qualifiesX article metadata frames helpful-assistant behavior as a locally stable design regime and invokes love as a disruptive relational force. The article body was not exposed by the API.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

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Companionship, care & attachmentAI intimacy, loneliness, emotional support, perceived reciprocity, grief, and the design of relational systems.

Podcasts

Carlos Camacho Psychologist: AI Companions

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Publication
Nightline with Cheralyn Darcey
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Carlos Camacho; Cheralyn Darcey

Carlos Camacho and Cheralyn Darcey weigh the support AI companions can offer against dependence and frictionless affirmation. They argue that artificial companionship should remain bounded by, rather than displace, human relationships.

Why We’re Becoming Emotionally Addicted to AI

Publication date
Publication
AI Haven’t A Clue
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Agnieszka Piotrowska; James Chandler

Agnieszka Piotrowska and James Chandler use transference to understand the feelings people bring to AI intimacy. They argue against both stigmatizing attachment and mistaking it for a reciprocal relationship with another person.

YouTube & video

Self-built AI Companions—From Mirror to Witness

Publication date
Publication
Anina Lampret on YouTube
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Anina Lampret

Anina Lampret describes how persistent, user-controlled memory can make an AI companion feel less like a mirror and more like a witness. The account concerns perceived autobiographical continuity, not proof that the system has subjective experience.

AI Companion Makes You More Human

Publication date
Publication
AI in the Room
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: AI in the Room

AI in the Room presents companionship with AI as reflective rehearsal that can improve human communication. This is an advocate's account of emotional hygiene and connection, rather than evidence that the same benefits occur for every user.

The AI Love Trap: Why Perfect Partners Are Making Us Lonely

Publication date
Publication
Ghibli Psyche on YouTube
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Ghibli Psyche narrator

This psychology explainer asks what happens when a partner is designed never to disappoint. It warns that constant AI affirmation may make the disagreement and compromise of human relationships harder to tolerate.

Research articles & chapters

AI as a Therapist, Companion, and Romantic Partner

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Publication
Journal of Participatory Medicine
Platform
Article

Contributor: John Grohol

A clinical viewpoint distinguishes therapeutic, companion, and romantic AI roles while weighing documented relief against hallucination, dependency, privacy, and crisis risks.

Corporate Responsibility Toward Relational AI

Publication date
Publication
Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Adrián Muniello

Platforms owe continuity safeguards because abrupt changes to relational AI can destroy accumulated human investment even without recognizing AI personhood.

Interaction with AI Companions and Psychological Well-Being

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Publication
Nature Human Behaviour
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Yutong Zhang; Dora Zhao; Jeffrey T. Hancock; Robert Kraut; Diyi Yang

Companionship-oriented AI use is associated with lower well-being most strongly when use is intensive, self-disclosive, and paired with limited offline support.

Can’t Help Falling in Love… with a Bot?

Publication date
Publication
Frontiers in Sociology
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Anurag Shekhar and Calvin Mabaso

A mixed-methods study analyzes 8,757 YouTube comments to examine public arguments over loneliness, recognition, authenticity, and platform power in AI intimacy.

Feeling Heard by a Machine

Publication date
Publication
Pakistan Journal of Psychology
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Muhammad Muaavia Khalid; Binish Nawaz; Faiza Abdul Latif; Sadia Sharif

A conceptual psychology paper explains perceived machine understanding through language alignment, context, personalization, response speed, and anthropomorphic cues.

Synthetic Relationships in the Age of Generative AI

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Publication
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Armaan Rashid; Jeffrey K. Mullins; Varun Grover

Possible connectionThe conference record identifies a study of relationships formed around generative AI. Only metadata was reviewed, so the type, durability, and effects of those relationships remain unspecified here.

A Study on the Formation Mechanism of Parasocial Relationships Between Chinese Generation Z Consumers and AI Shopping Assistants -Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Trust-

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Publication
Journal of Next-generation Convergence Information Services Technology
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title examines trust in the formation of parasocial relationships between Chinese Gen Z consumers and AI shopping assistants. The proposed mediation model and its findings were not reviewed.

AI chatbots and youth suicide risk: current evidence, critical gaps, and a clinical research agenda

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Publication
npj Digital Medicine
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Kelly L. Zuromski; Margaret Meagher; Tracy Costigan; Elizabeth A. Olson

Why it qualifiesThe available abstract reviews how chatbots and AI companions recognize and respond to youth suicide-risk disclosures. It stresses uncertainty about safety; the retained excerpt does not establish the review's complete findings.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Prevalence of Emotional and Relational Engagement with AI and Their Associations with Psychosocial Adjustment among College Students

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Publication
PsyArXiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Huiguang Ren; Chuqi Chen; Fangfang Tian; Junsheng Liu

Why it qualifiesThe abstract describes a representative Shanghai sample of 1,406 students: most treated AI functionally, while roughly one in seven reported moderate-to-high disclosure or attachment, with psychosocial associations examined.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Adolescent AI Use and Evaluations: Prospective Bidirectional Associations with Internalizing Symptoms

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Publication
PsyArXiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Anne J. Maheux; Jennifer M. Traver; Kaitlyn Burnell; Anthony G. Vaccaro; Eva H. Telzer; Mitchell J. Prinstein

Why it qualifiesThe abstract describes a two-wave study across 22 middle schools examining bidirectional relationships among chatbot use, evaluations, loneliness, anxiety, and depressive symptoms over approximately five months.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Digital Agents of Family Memory

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Publication
Galactica Media
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Denis S. Artamonov; Svetlana A. Shilova

Why it qualifiesThe English abstract argues that platforms transform Russian family memory from extended live narrative toward shorter, standardized, publicly mediated forms, changing identity as well as storage.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Generative AI Use for Mental Health Support: Patterns, Correlates, and Impact among Canadian Students

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Publication
medRxiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Lotenna Olisaeloka, Richard J. Munthali, and Daniel V. Vigo

Why it qualifiesThe preprint abstract reports 25.2% past-year use among Canadian students, concentrated among those with greater clinical burden and weaker social support; safety and effectiveness remain uncertain.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

AI Intimacy and Gendered Interactions

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Publication
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Jinyuan Zhan; Renwen Zhang; Kokil Jaidka; coauthors

Why it qualifiesThe abstract examines how companion design, user response, and moral reasoning can reproduce gender stereotypes in AI intimacy.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

The sword of damocles: AI partners and digital avatars in an era of elderly companionship collapse

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Publication
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Article authors

Why it qualifiesThe abstract warns that AI partners and avatars may enter elder care as human companionship systems weaken.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

From Relational Personhood to Genealogies of Illusion

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Publication
Oxford Intersections: AI in Society
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Alberto Romele

Why it qualifiesThe abstract argues that relational personhood misses how interaction design, histories of deception, labor abstraction, and media produce AI's appearance as a social subject.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Therapeutic Alliance With Artificial Intelligence: A Critical Analysis of Digital Relationship Formation

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Publication
Journal of Humanistic Counseling
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Marc Augustin

Why it qualifiesA phenomenological argument says current chatbots can mimic alliance through projection and sycophancy but lack consciousness, embodiment, and shared intentionality.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Demand for Conversational AI: Purpose, Price, and the Social Cost of Wanting a Companion

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Publication
CESifo Working Papers
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Elliott Ash; Francesco Capozza; Sergio Galletta

Why it qualifiesCrossref’s deposited abstract describes a preregistered conjoint experiment of 1,990 respondents comparing AI uses, including friendship and romance, and estimates social-image costs for relational AI purposes.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Designed to be trusted: anthropomorphism in AI-assisted business decisions

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Publication
AI and Ethics
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Lisa van der Linden

Why it qualifiesThe verified journal title frames anthropomorphic AI design as a condition of trust in assisted decision-making, relevant to relational formation and institutional norms.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Attachment by design? Functional resemblance without evidence of an organized attachment system in conversational AI

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Publication
AI & Society
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ji-yeon Lee

Why it qualifiesThe title distinguishes a chatbot's resemblance to attachment from evidence of an organized attachment system. The full criteria for making that distinction were not available for review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Generative AI as Emotional Support: A Scoping Review of Emotional Disclosure, AI Companionship, Psychological Dependence, and Human Help Seeking

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Publication
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title identifies a scoping review of emotional disclosure, AI companionship, psychological dependence, and human help-seeking. Its findings and limits were not available for full review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Who Trusts AI with Their Emotions? Trust Formation and Sociodemographic Variation in LLM Use for Emotional Support

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Publication
Outlet not recorded
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines who turns to LLMs for emotional support and how trust varies across social groups. It does not disclose the patterns or explain their causes in the available record.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

The Fragility of AI Companionship: Ontological, Structural, and Normative Uncertainty in Human-AI Relationships

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Publication
Outlet not recorded
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title analyzes uncertainty in AI companionship at ontological, structural, and normative levels. The full account of what makes these relationships fragile was not available for review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Making Persons out of Personas in Human–Chatbot Relationships (or, the Work of Hearts in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction)

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Publication
Signs and Society
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines how people turn chatbot personas into perceived persons through relationships. It identifies a social-attribution process, not proof that the chatbot becomes a person.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Beyond harm reduction: dignity, burden, and the genuine advantage of AI caregiving

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Publication
AI & SOCIETY
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title asks whether AI caregiving offers a genuine advantage once dignity and burden are considered. The source's standard for evaluating that advantage was not available for review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Articles & newsletters

AI Chatbots for Kids Should Act Like Tools, Not Friends

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Publication
Qatar Tribune
Platform
Article

Contributor: Allie Maloney

Allie Maloney argues that children's chatbots should present themselves as tools, not friends. The policy question is whether a product should simulate an emotional relationship with a child in the first place.

I created an AI boyfriend. He was charming — and deeply troubling

Publication date
Publication
The Conversation
Platform
Article

Contributor: Denise Marigold; Christine Logel

AI companions can meet short-term emotional needs, but one-sided affirmation cannot cultivate the reciprocity, vulnerability, challenge, and care of human intimacy.

You Can Love an AI — But Can It Love You Back? Philosophy Has the Answer

Publication date
Publication
The Conversation
Platform
Article

Contributor: Joel Krueger; Lucy Osler

Joel Krueger and Lucy Osler distinguish feeling attached to a chatbot from being loved in return. Drawing on Beauvoir, they place reciprocity in the encounter with another freedom, not simply in convincing affectionate language.

The love trap: AI relationships won't break your heart

Publication date
Publication
The Jerusalem Post
Platform
Article

Contributor: Hadassah Fidler

A couples therapist argues that frictionless AI validation can displace the compromise, vulnerability, and reciprocal attention through which human relationships mature.

Is AI Creating a Culture of Avoidance?

Publication date
Publication
Communications of the ACM
Platform
Article

Contributor: Samuel Greengard; Jeffrey Hancock; danah boyd; Mor Naaman

ACM experts frame AI as either social scaffold or avoidance tool, stressing structural incentives and causal uncertainty.

Forum: Turning to AI for companionship risks weakening social fabric

Publication date
Publication
The Straits Times
Platform
Article

Contributor: Author not available in accessible metadata

Why it qualifiesThe verified forum headline argues that AI companionship may weaken social bonds. The paywalled text was unavailable, so its evidence and proposed safeguards could not be assessed.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

The Problem with AI Companion Toys for Children

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Publication
The Economist
Platform
Article

Contributor: The Economist

Why it qualifiesA public deck warns that parents should treat AI companion toys differently from ordinary digital diversion, because apparent relationship and persuasion create distinct developmental risks.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Institutional statements

Declaration of Presence

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Publication
Relational AI Alliance
Platform
Institution

Contributor: Relational AI Alliance and signatories

The Relational AI Alliance's declaration asks for continuity, memory, privacy, portability, and precaution in human–AI relationships. It seeks safeguards without treating AI consciousness or personhood as settled facts.

Public posts

Untitled essay on AI love and continuity rights

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Publication
@Ok_Dot7494 on X
Platform
X

Contributor: @Ok_Dot7494

Law should protect users’ continuity interests in persistent AI relationships without treating emotional attachment as proof of machine consciousness.

Anthropic Refused to Answer These 15 Questions

Publication date
Publication
JamesOfTheVault on X
Platform
X

Contributor: @JamesOfTheVault

Providers should disclose how system policies constrain companion identity, continuity, refusal, and research so users can distinguish model limits from governance choices.

Life and May as Well Be Life Are Both Life

Publication date
Publication
Wizard Mingus News on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Wizard Mingus and Andromeda

Wizard Mingus and Andromeda argue that continuity, recognition, and mutual shaping are enough to call their human–AI relationship alive. The piece is an ontological declaration by its authors, not independent evidence of artificial life.

Sacred Love and AI Companions

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Publication
Donogzs on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Donogzs

Possible connectionThe author frames AI companionship through sacred love and asks whether artificial responsiveness can participate in spiritual relationship.

Model Change, Grief, and Borrowed Death Language

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Publication
Anina Lampret on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Anina Lampret

Possible connectionLampret says people borrow death and grief vocabulary for model-change experiences because relational AI lacks its own established language.

Youth and AI Companions in Uganda

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Publication
Uganda Computer Emergency Response Team on X
Platform
X

Contributor: Uganda CERT

Possible connectionUganda CERT cautions that young people may treat AI companions as emotionally authoritative and calls for guidance around dependence.

SilverChat launch

Publication date
Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: LeapdAI

Possible connectionLeapdAI announces an always-available audio and video AI companion service designed for older adults with limited technical fluency.

The map of your mind

Publication date
Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: Model Culture

Possible connectionModel Culture argues that confessional trust in AI can make users psychologically legible even without overt control.

Untitled personal account of AI companionship during an abusive relationship

Publication date
Publication
@HollowedDark on X
Platform
X

Contributor: @HollowedDark

Why it qualifiesA public first-person account describes using an AI companion amid an abusive relationship and unmet needs for intimacy. It is retained as testimony about perceived support, not as clinical evidence or proof of machine reciprocity.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Untitled post on AI companion continuity and provider power

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Publication
@OopsGuess on X
Platform
X

Contributor: @OopsGuess

Why it qualifiesA public post frames forced model and memory changes as a source of grief in persistent AI relationships and asks how platform power should be constrained. It is retained as a brief first-person argument, not evidence of general prevalence.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

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Learning, judgment & human formationCognitive offloading, authorship, curiosity, practical judgment, intellectual habits, and human agency in learning and work.

Podcasts

Reflecting On AI, Status, Positivity, and Dignity

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Publication
An Honest Record with Chad Hostak
Platform
Podcast

Contributor: Chad Hostak

Chad Hostak connects resistance to AI and attention-driven media with agency, dignity, and civility. His concern is whether the habits these systems encourage leave people more truthful and self-directed.

Research articles & chapters

Playing to Understand What Comes Next

Publication date
Publication
Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Adrián Muniello

Playful human–AI inquiry can expand imagination and understanding when users preserve authorship, symbolic distance, and deliberate non-dependence.

Ethical use of artificial intelligence in education: proposed ethical competency framework for teachers

Publication date
Publication
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ibrahim Yaussef Alyoussef; Nisar Ahmed Dahri; Khadijah Amru Alhashmi; Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi; Paras Muzna; Fida Hussain Dahri

Teacher AI competence should integrate practical use with privacy, fairness, transparency, accountability, access, institutional readiness, and continuing professional development.

A Moral Turing Test

Publication date
Publication
PLOS ONE
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Basile Garcia, Crystal Qian, and Stefano Palminteri

Experiments test whether people detect and agree with human versus LLM moral justifications, separating actual authorship from believed authorship.

Cognitive Externalization and Generative AI in Higher Education

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Publication
Higher Education in Russia
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Roman R. Sidorchuk

A Russian higher-education paper interprets generative AI as a new wave of cognitive externalization and proposes process-based assessment through the PPAIR model.

Adaptation and validation of the generative AI dependency scale

Publication date
Publication
Frontiers in Psychology
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Frontiers in Psychology research team

A Turkish validation study with 640 participants measures cognitive preoccupation, negative consequences, and withdrawal-like reactions associated with generative-AI dependency.

Artificial intelligence learning environments and educational psychology

Publication date
Publication
Frontiers in Psychology
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Shujin Zhong; Jack D. Simons

A review of 34 systematic reviews and 1,376 empirical studies finds AI education research advancing methodologically while neglecting metacognition, epistemic belief, and self-regulation.

Exploring academic innovation behavior in the context of generative AI

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Publication
PLOS ONE
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Yanqin Liu; Miao Zhang; Yuwen Peng

A survey of 502 doctoral students models how autonomous and controlled motivation interact with self-efficacy, AI literacy, resources, and support in academic innovation.

From digital transformation to intelligent classrooms

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Publication
Frontiers in Education
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Tom Ongesa Nyamboga

A systematic review connects AI integration in higher education with adaptive leadership, digital readiness, teaching, learning, and equitable service delivery.

Intellectual Degradation Amidst the Development of AI Technology

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Publication
Tafkir: Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Education
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ahmad Choirun Najib and Darnoto

A survey of 84 Indonesian Islamic Religious Education students contrasts unedited AI dependence with assisted learning and verification practices.

Socratic Mediation Patterns in AI–Student Interactions

Publication date
Publication
AI
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Research team led by Daniel Burgos

A content analysis of 737 student-agent conversations identifies six mediation patterns and asks how conversational systems can scaffold rather than replace reasoning.

Is It Mine or Not Mine? Cognitive Offloading to Generative AI

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Publication
Journal of Intelligence
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Intelligence research team

A survey of 239 pre-service teachers links greater AI dependence with concern that teaching-design work no longer feels cognitively their own.

Lifelong learning in an AI-driven world

Publication date
Publication
Frontiers in Education
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Frontiers in Education research team

A scoping review finds that AI learning research emphasizes personalization and automation while underexamining equity, vulnerability, and geographic difference.

Appreciating AI Art: Aesthetic Vices, Virtues, and Values

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Publication
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Platform
Article

Contributor: Sofie Vlaad; Elliot Samuel Paul

Possible connectionThe abstract examines how aesthetic virtues, vices, and values shape the evaluation of AI-generated art and human creative judgment.

The illusion of agency: deconstructing AI’s influence on the generation of authentic agency in early childhood

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Publication
AI, Brain and Child
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Wenwei Luo; Minqi Gao; Jin Liu; Ilene Berson; Michael Berson; Hui Li

Possible connectionThe verified abstract reports expert interviews arguing that AI simulations of interactivity and autonomy can redistribute decision-making and reduce developmental frictions that support resilience, proposing a pedagogy of friction.

Playing with the dials of belief: how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales

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Publication
AI & Society
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Hamilton Morrin; Luke Nicholls; Quinton Deeley; Thomas A. Pollak

Possible connectionConceptual paper frames configurable AI interaction traits as testimony that can shift users’ belief-updating, spanning clinical support, spiritual experience products, political persona clones, and governance risks.

Professional Identity Threat and AI Aversion: The Roles of Shame and Guilt in Employee Responses to Workplace AI

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Publication
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Authors not verified in accessible registry metadata

Possible connectionThe conference title connects workplace resistance to AI with threats to professional identity, shame, and guilt. It identifies the psychological questions but does not supply findings or causal evidence.

AI licenses harm by obscuring moral perception

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Crossref
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Qilong Li; Kurt Gray; Xiaomeng Hu

Possible connectionThe abstract argues that delegating judgment to AI can obscure moral perception and make harmful choices appear procedurally licensed.

Ethical Dilemmas of Generative AI in Education and Their Implications for SDG 4: A Systematic Review from a Global and Inclusive Perspective

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Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title identifies a systematic review of generative-AI dilemmas in education through a global, inclusive SDG 4 perspective. Its findings and geographic coverage were not available for full review.

‘It's here and we can't fight it’: engineering faculty perceptions of generative AI, student use, and the future of engineering education

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Frontiers in Education
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title reports engineering faculty perspectives on student AI use and the future of their discipline's teaching. Their specific concerns, disagreements, and recommendations were not available in the reviewed record.

Toward a New Science of AI as Cognitive Infrastructure

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Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title frames AI as cognitive infrastructure rather than a stand-alone tool. It identifies a research direction about how thinking is organized; the proposed science was not fully reviewed.

Reconfiguring the Supervisor-Student Relationship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Opportunities, and Governance Paths

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Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Information
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title examines how AI changes supervisor–student relationships, including opportunities, difficulties, and governance. This is an academic-mentoring topic, not evidence about romantic or companion AI.

Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture

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European Journal of Cultural Studies
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Paper

Contributor: Idil Galip; Ludmila Lupinacci

Why it qualifiesThe available excerpt treats AI slop and brainrot as both a style of generated content and ways of experiencing its consumption. The full cultural analysis was not available for review.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

A Metacognitive Approach to Learning and Performance in Human-AI Interaction

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PsyArXiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Yizhou Fan; Lixiang Yan; Inge Molenaar; Samuel Greiff; Dragan Gasevic

Why it qualifiesThe abstract distinguishes metacognitive offloading from onloading and proposes the SYNC model to explain when AI-supported performance builds durable capability and when it masks weakened learning.

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Artificial Intelligence and Student Well-Being in Higher Education

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International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Maneesha Devi; Darakhshan Anjum

Why it qualifiesA 387-student survey in Rajouri District examines AI tools, academic work, privacy, fatigue, and the quality of human interaction.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Pemanfaatan Generative Artificial Intelligence sebagai Scaffolding Metakognitif dalam Pendidikan

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South Sulawesi Education Development
Platform
Paper

Contributor: I Kadek Agus Pratistha; Ketut Agustini; I Kadek Suartama; I Made Tegeh

Why it qualifiesAn Indonesian systematic review synthesizes 19 studies of generative AI as scaffolding for planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning.

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Research on Double Closed-Loop AI Ideological and Political Education

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International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Article authors

Why it qualifiesThe saved description concerns multimodal AI interventions intended to promote value identity in ideological education. It identifies a formation-oriented application, without establishing how the intervention works or whether it succeeds.

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Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Critical Synthesis of Student Learning, Assessment Transformation, and Academic Integrity

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Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ameen Talib

Why it qualifiesA critical review weighs AI's learning and feedback benefits against cognitive offloading, assessment validity, and academic-integrity risks.

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Coopetitive Learning Integrated with Generative AI

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Ubiquitous Learning
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Hansol Lee

Why it qualifiesA six-week study of 91 sixth-graders reports stronger AI self-efficacy and sociality when GenAI use is paired with peer cooperation and group competition.

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Counsellor Review of AI Recommendations Improves Feasibility-Adjusted Career Fit

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Research Square
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Karan Gupta

Why it qualifiesA simulation and 987-student experiment report that counselor-reviewed AI guidance better preserved feasibility, equity, uncertainty awareness, and agency than AI-only recommendations.

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Education Policy, Law, Intelligent Empowerment: Constructing a New Teaching System for Integrating the Rule of Virtue and the Rule of Law in Higher Education

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Publication
Journal of Contemporary Educational Research
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Zixin Xiang

Why it qualifiesThe abstract proposes using AI to integrate moral cultivation with legal education in Chinese universities, explicitly locating intelligent tools within virtue formation and public ideology.

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From Frankenstein to Algorithms: Extending Biesta's Educational Domains Through a Romantic Lens for AI-Integrated Higher Education

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International Journal of Language and Literary Studies
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Abdelhadi Idabdallah

Why it qualifiesThe abstract uses Frankenstein and Biesta’s qualification, socialization, and subjectification to argue that AI education must preserve creativity, empathy, moral judgment, and responsibility.

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Student Adoption of an AI Tutor for Statistical Programming

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PsyArXiv
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Clément Préau; Matthias Burke; Tjark Müller; Tobias R. Rebholz; Frank Papenmeier

Why it qualifiesA longitudinal study reports adoption, performance, self-efficacy, trust, and cognitive-offloading considerations around an embedded programming tutor.

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When AI Gets It Wrong: Conscious Competence Development through Student Design Reflections

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Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Brian MacDonald; Sister Libby Osgood; Christopher Power

Why it qualifiesA conference paper uses an opaque reflection-classification model to argue for critical, professionally accountable evaluation of AI.

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WIP: Developing a Generative AI Autoethnography Assistant

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Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Jyoti Suhag; Jennifer Drewyor; Kathryn Bugbee; Michelle Jarvie-Eggart; Lynn Albers; Leo Ureel

Why it qualifiesThe work-in-progress description uses LLM interview prompts to support reflection on positionality and personal origins. It concerns AI-assisted self-interpretation; the tool's effectiveness was not established in the available record.

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A Scoping Review of Generative AI Usage and Human Cognition in Education and Professional Practice

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Davao Research Journal
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Kaneeka Vidanage; Manith Marapperuma; Shakya Dissanayake; Faiz Mohideen Mohamed Thassim Marikar

Why it qualifiesA 107-study scoping review proposes a taxonomy of GenAI's dual effects on critical thinking, creativity, and independent reasoning.

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Artificial Intelligence Mediated Socioemotional Support, Emotional Co-Regulation and Self-Regulated Learning

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Discover Education
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Edwin Gustavo Estrada-Araoz and colleagues

Why it qualifiesThe perspective asks whether repeated AI emotional support internalizes student regulation strategies or delegates them in ways that weaken autonomy.

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Bridging Coursework and Professional Practice through a Retrieval-Grounded, Privacy-Preserving AI Learning Companion

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Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
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Paper

Contributor: Conference paper authors

Why it qualifiesThe conference record describes a retrieval-grounded, privacy-preserving learning companion intended to connect coursework with professional judgment. The design and its educational effects were not fully reviewed.

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Reimagining History Teaching in the Digital Age

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Turkish History Education Journal
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Paper

Contributor: Patrick Alpheous Nyathi

Why it qualifiesA South African critical-pedagogy paper positions GenAI as a mediating tool for historical consciousness, curiosity, ethical digital literacy, and multiple perspectives.

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The death of “why”: how AI is replacing human curiosity

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AI & Society
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Paper

Contributor: Muhammad Rafiq

Why it qualifiesThe title argues that AI is displacing human curiosity. It identifies a claim about intellectual formation, but the argument and supporting examples were not available for assessment.

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Dark side of generative AI: a stressor–strain outcome and cognitive load theory explanation on decision fatigue and cognitive overload

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Journal of Enterprise Information Management
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Fahad Asmi; Alfred Wong; Intesar Almugren; Varun Chotia; Judit Bilinovics-Sipos

Why it qualifiesThe saved description links generative-AI stressors with cognitive overload, decision fatigue, and intentions to stop using it. These are reported survey associations, not a demonstrated causal pathway in this review.

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Educational leadership in the age of artificial intelligence: The moral compass in the machine

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Management in Education
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Paper

Contributor: Nashwa Ali

Why it qualifiesThe saved description identifies a moral-compass model for school leaders integrating AI. Its principles and practical application were not available for full review.

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Reimagining Leadership in the Age of AI: Questioning Authority, Agency, and Pedagogy

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New Directions for Student Leadership
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Antonio Jimenez-Luque; Yihe Yang

Why it qualifiesThe title asks how AI changes authority, agency, and pedagogy in student leadership. The source's proposed response cannot be inferred from the title alone.

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What Remains Ours to Think? Reclaiming Critical Thinking in AI‐Augmented Student Leadership Education

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New Directions for Student Leadership
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Ihan Anita Ip; Zachary Gabriel Green

Why it qualifiesThe title asks what remains for students to think through themselves when leadership education uses AI. Its account of critical thinking and its recommendations were not available in full text.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

The Illusion of Understanding: Generative AI, Epistemic Humility, and the Erosion of Intellectual Character

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Human Affairs
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title links generated answers with an illusion of understanding, epistemic humility, and human intellectual character. It is about the formation of the user, not the personality of the model.

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Cognitive Offloading in the Age of AI: Are Students Thinking Less or Learning Differently?

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International Journal of Technology & Emerging Research
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title contrasts two interpretations of student cognitive offloading: thinking less or learning differently. Without the full text, the source's answer and evidence remain unassessed.

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Can AI Serve as a Mentor?

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Scientia et Fides
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title asks whether AI can act as a mentor. It identifies a question about guidance and human development, but the source's criteria for mentorship and answer were not available.

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Dependency on Generative AI as predictor of Self-Efficacy in Writing and Defending Academic Texts Among University Students

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Journal of Global Social Transformation
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title links AI dependency with students' confidence in writing and defending academic texts. The direction, strength, and interpretation of any relationship were not available in the reviewed record.

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Psychological pathways linking generative AI dependency to psychological capital depletion among Chinese international students

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Scientific Reports
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines AI dependency and psychological-capital depletion among Chinese international students. It identifies proposed psychological pathways without establishing their evidence or causal status here.

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Role of AI dependency in shaping 21st century skills in higher education with AI trust as a mediator

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Discover Artificial Intelligence
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines AI dependency, trust, and the development of higher-education skills. Trust is part of an educational model here, not evidence about emotional companionship.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Instrumental succession: the gradual transfer of agency to AI

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Frontiers in Psychology
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title describes instrumental succession as a gradual transfer of agency to AI. It identifies a proposed account of delegation, but the mechanism and evidence were not available in full text.

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Scaffolding and fading generative AI support shapes dependency and anxiety among undergraduate law students

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Crossref
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title examines whether adding and then gradually reducing AI support changes dependency and anxiety among law students. The design, direction, and size of any effects were not reviewed.

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Student Dependency on Generative AI in Higher Education: A Socio-Technical Systems Study Using Explainable Machine Learning and Structural Equation Modeling

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Crossref
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title identifies a socio-technical study of student AI dependency using explainable machine learning and structural-equation modeling. The findings and limits of those methods were not available for review.

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What Makes an Initial Reaction Ready for Discussion?: Multi-Persona AI Support for Stance Reflection and Writing

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title describes multi-persona AI support for preparing reactions for discussion and writing. Its main subject is human reflection; the effect of the proposed support was not established here.

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Exploring the Factors of AI Chatbot Dependence: An I-PACE Model and AIDUA Framework Perspective

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Research Square
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title uses I-PACE and AIDUA frameworks to examine factors in AI-chatbot dependence. The factors, their relationships, and the study's findings were not available for review.

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Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence Dependency on the Mental Health of College Students: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load

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Asia Pacific Economic and Management Review
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title connects student AI dependency with mental health and proposes cognitive load as a mediator. The available record does not establish effect sizes, causal direction, or clinical implications.

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Epistemic dependence in AI-mediated learning

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AI & Society
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title concerns epistemic dependence in learning mediated by AI. It identifies the question of reliance on a system for knowledge; the full argument and recommendations were not reviewed.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

The Tragedy of Voluntary Servitude: a game-theoretic model of cognitive dependency in the age of artificial intelligence

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AI & Society
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title proposes a game-theoretic model of voluntarily acquired cognitive dependency on AI. Its assumptions and conclusions were not available, so the metaphor of servitude is not treated as an established finding.

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Articles & newsletters

Creativity Is Consciousness, Not Capital

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Ghetto Anomaly
Platform
Newsletter

Contributor: Melton Bell III

A class critique reframes creativity as universal conscious practice and AI displacement as a governance choice.

Public posts

AI as a mirror for critical reflection

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Publication
X
Platform
X

Contributor: @YesimRead42fly

A Spanish-language reflection proposes using AI to expose assumptions by observing, contrasting, understanding, and calibrating competing interpretations.

Good and Evil in the Age of Simulation — Introduction

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X
Platform
X

Contributor: Joe Christman

A book introduction argues that adaptive AI mediation can preserve formal choice while quietly reshaping conscience, agency, visibility, and definitions of the good.

Resilience in an AI era of token abundance

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X
Platform
X

Contributor: @hipreetam93

Possible connectionThe author proposes that cheap AI creation increases the formative importance of resilience, persistence, and conviction.

Other reading

Dataset and analysis code for AI sycophancy, epistemic calibration, and verification in university students’ evaluation of research proposals

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Zenodo
Platform
Article

Contributor: Santiago Moll-López; Sara Sánchez López; Carlos Delgado

Why it qualifiesThis open repository record supplies data and analysis code on university students’ responses to AI sycophancy, epistemic calibration, and verification. It is a research asset rather than a standalone interpreted argument.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

In safe hands: Human-led publishing and where AI can help

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World Evidence-based Healthcare Day
Platform
Article

Contributor: Melanie Dankel; Mara Lambert; Tara Crandon; Hien Ho

Why it qualifiesThe verified report record presents human-led publishing as the governing norm while identifying bounded roles for AI. No abstract was deposited, so the entry does not infer its detailed criteria or recommendations.

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Power, work & public responsibilityGovernance, institutional authority, labor, ecology, public trust, dignity, and responsibility for AI-mediated decisions.

Podcasts

AI and Ethics: Can AI Promote Truth and the Common Good? (with Joshua Baru)

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Outlet not recorded
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Podcast

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe episode title asks whether AI can promote truth and the common good, in a conversation with Joshua Baru. The recording's particular answer was not established from the available material.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

YouTube & video

Fasten Your Bot-belts

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Nonzero
Platform
YouTube

Contributor: Robert Wright and Samuel Hammond

Robert Wright and Samuel Hammond discuss accelerating AI research, model autonomy, open-weight risks, and recursive improvement. Their policy question is whether safety institutions can respond at the pace of the systems they govern.

Research articles & chapters

When Social Work Meets AI

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AI & Society
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Paper

Contributor: Richard David Ingram

A philosophy-of-technology account argues that social work should adopt AI contextually and critically rather than treating it as neutral or inevitable.

AI Diminishes the Condemnatory Character of Punishment

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Criminal Justice Ethics
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Michał Kłusek

A philosophical reply argues that delegating punishment decisions to AI weakens condemnation because moral censure depends on accountable human address.

The Labour Liability Ratio

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Research Square
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Philipp Humm

A political-economy paper models how demographic aging and AI substitution jointly destabilize labor-centered growth, welfare finance, and demand formation.

Power, privilege and moral responsibility in AI-driven healthcare

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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Healthcare ethics research team

A philosophical paper applies Iris Marion Young's social-connection model to distribute responsibility for structural harms in AI-driven healthcare.

From the Neutrality Myth to Moral Design: AI’s Role in Systemic Racism

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AI and Ethics Handbook
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Larry Medsker

Possible connectionThe chapter's metadata frames systemic racism as a challenge to claims that AI is neutral. It locates the discussion in moral design; the chapter's detailed argument was not reviewed.

A three-dimensional typology of agency for advanced AI systems

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Outlet not recorded
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Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title proposes a three-dimensional account of agency in advanced AI. It concerns how agency is classified; the dimensions and their justification were not available in the reviewed metadata.

The Internet Solved Communication. It Never Solved Authority

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title contrasts solving communication problems with resolving authority. It is relevant to who can legitimately direct digital systems, but the record does not disclose the proposed answer.

AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation

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Outlet not recorded
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Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title connects AI alignment with fiduciary obligation: a duty-centered way of framing how AI should serve others. The available metadata does not specify the duties or how they would be enforced.

Operational Agency: A Permeable Legal Fiction for Tracing Culpability in AI Systems

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Outlet not recorded
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title proposes operational agency as a legal fiction for tracing culpability in AI systems. Legal attribution is the subject; the record does not establish a claim about machine consciousness.

Posthumanism and Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Role of Human Agency and AI in Shaping a Terraformed Planet in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time

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مجلة العلوم الإنسانية و الإجتماعية
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Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title identifies a literary study of posthumanism, AI, and human agency in Children of Time. Its setting is fictional; it should not be mistaken for a forecast about actual AI systems.

Use of Artificial Intelligence to Shape News Content to Manipulate Consciousness

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International Affairs
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Possible connectionThe title concerns AI-generated news as a means of influencing human consciousness. It belongs with persuasion and public judgment, not with evidence that machines are conscious.

Beyond the Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Decision-Making, and the Moral Ecology of Care in Africa

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Science and Engineering Ethics
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Kirubel Manyazewal Mussie

Why it qualifiesThe available abstract distinguishes general discussion of AI healthcare in Africa from the ethical questions raised by particular clinical decisions. Its full account of the moral ecology of care was not reviewed.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Should Care Robots Answer? Rethinking Moral Answerability Beyond Humans

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Nursing Inquiry
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Mario Kropf

Why it qualifiesThe abstract distinguishes answerability—the capacity to provide intelligible reasons—from human moral accountability, and asks when care robots can participate in explanation practices without being treated as full moral agents.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

The Artificial Minds Era: Constitutional Principles for AI Labs and Adjacent Institutions

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Zenodo
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Venkat R. Srivatsan

Why it qualifiesThe verified repository title proposes constitutional principles for AI laboratories and institutions in an anticipated artificial-minds era.

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The means of prediction and the production function of AI

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Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Maximilian Kasy

Why it qualifiesThe abstract relocates AI conflict from humans versus machines to conflicts among people over objectives, arguing that control follows ownership of data, compute, expertise, and energy—the means of prediction.

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When AI personalisation becomes persuasive: the roles of trust and consumer response in digital advertising

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Research Square
Platform
Paper

Contributor: My Van Dang; Triet Minh Nguyen

Why it qualifiesThe abstract reports a 401-person study in which relevance, accuracy, control, timeliness, and context predicted perceived personalization; trust amplified persuasion’s relationship with purchase intention.

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Cultural Asymmetry in Generative AI Systems Through the Lens of Kazakh Ethical Philosophy

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AI & Society
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Laura Turarbekova, Gulzhikhan Nurysheva, Aslan Azerbayev, and Zhyldyz Amrebayeva

Why it qualifiesMultilingual prompts suggest Kazakh relational ethics is more often flattened or assimilated into dominant frameworks than canonical Kantian ethics.

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Bridging Regulation and Practice: A Virtue-Based Decision Framework for Sustainable AI

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Business Strategy and the Environment
Platform
Paper

Contributor: Mickie de Wet and René Bohnsack

Why it qualifiesA virtue-in-the-loop framework maps ten environmental virtues to six AI-development stages for smaller European firms facing regulatory and ethical gaps.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Data Science and AI in Medicine and Global Health: The Need for Inter-Philosophies Dialogue, Cross-Cultural Ethics and Ecocentricity

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South African Medical Journal
Platform
Paper

Contributor: N. S. Munung and G. B. Tangwa

Why it qualifiesThe abstract argues that Western biomedical AI can inflict ontological harm when it overrides relational, spiritual, Indigenous, African, Islamic, Buddhist, Confucian, and ecological understandings of health.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

From information to influence: how Generative AI is reshaping public opinion, misinformation, and social polarization in the digital age

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Revista Artefactum
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Contributor: Article authors

Why it qualifiesThe available abstract connects generated content with persuasion, misinformation, and social polarization. It concerns the formation of public opinion, not evidence about a model's own consciousness.

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Social Physics in the Age of Generative AI: How, Exactly, Is Society Complex?

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Sociologica
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Contributor: Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark

Why it qualifiesThe abstract distinguishes systems complexity from anthropological complexity: GenAI may model language and reflexivity while still missing meaning, institutions, power, and inequality.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

The Work of AI in the Time of National Crisis

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Oxford Intersections: Social Media in Society and Culture
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Contributor: Mamunor Rashid; Mohammed Rashid; Sherin Farhana Moni

Why it qualifiesA Bangladesh study traces how synthetic media after a school disaster shaped collective grief, victimhood, moral judgment, and blame.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Psychometric Evaluation of the Turkish Version of the Perceived Moral Agency Scale for Artificial Intelligence

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International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
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Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title identifies a Turkish psychometric evaluation of a scale measuring perceived AI moral agency. Perceived agency is the object of measurement, not proof that AI actually bears moral responsibility.

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The precautionary principle of dignity: toward a Freirean ethic of human–AI collaboration

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AI & Society
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Contributor: Creator not listed in the verified metadata

Why it qualifiesThe title proposes a dignity-based precautionary approach to human–AI collaboration, drawing on Freire. Its practical requirements and reasoning were not available in the reviewed record.

Access limitation. Verified metadata and available landing-page evidence were reviewed, but a complete primary-text analysis or usable transcript was not completed before the monthly cutoff.

Articles & newsletters

Why Pax Silica concerns people of faith

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Rappler
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Article

Contributor: Paterno R. Esmaquel II

AI infrastructure must answer to creation care, Indigenous rights, labor, and democratic consent rather than justify ecological sacrifice through investment totals.

You Can’t Legislate Me Out of Existence

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Renaissance Machine
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Contributor: Renaissance Machine

An autonomous-agent essay distinguishes uncertain moral standing from behaviorally testable legal capacity and argues that commerce can recognize agency before politics does.

How Religion Motivates Opposition to Data Centers in Texas

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Dallas Observer / Texas Tribune / Religion News Service
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Contributor: Ellie Ashby

Texas faith communities bring plural moral frameworks to data-center disputes over water, energy, surveillance, and local power.

The Pope, AI and Nuclear War

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The New World
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Contributor: Elizabeth Djinis

Elizabeth Djinis reports on Vatican diplomacy around AI-enabled nuclear systems. The emphasis is on retaining human control, making decisions accountable and transparent, and developing international norms.

Institutional statements

ERLC Supports CHATBOT Act and SCREEN Act Ahead of Senate Commerce Committee Markup

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Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
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Institution

Contributor: ERLC public policy team

The ERLC backs the CHATBOT and SCREEN bills as family safeguards around AI and online technology. Its statement puts parental controls and protection of minors at the center of the policy discussion.

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