{
  "id": 18783,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11955v1",
  "title": "Philosophical vertigo with artificial intelligence",
  "summary": "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 destabilisation in which inherited criteria become newl",
  "authors": "Thomas A. Pollak, Hamilton Morrin, Murray Shanahan",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T11:40:50.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18783",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11955v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}