{
  "id": 18719,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11955",
  "title": "Philosophical vertigo with artificial intelligence",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.11955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are already adept at engaging users in long, emotionally salient conversations across ordinary and existential domains. They are also capable of inducing a potent sense of connection with a human-like entity, even when the user knows their interlocutor is artificial. For some users, these conversations can unsettle assumptions about mind, reality, agency and authority, producing forms of ontological shock and epistemic destabi",
  "authors": "Thomas A. Pollak (King's College London), Hamilton Morrin (King's College London), Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London)",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18719",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11955",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}