YOU AND AI explores the emerging phenomenology of human interaction with responsive artificial intelligence systems. Rather than asking whether AI is conscious, the manuscript investigates how conversational systems generate increasingly persuasive signs of understanding, empathy, resonance, and reflection. Drawing from philosophy of technology, phenomenology, media theory, and contemporary AI discourse, the work introduces concepts such as interruption, semantic closure, authorization, and the responsive mirror as tools for navigating the psychological and cultural consequences of prolonged interaction with AI systems. The central concern of this work is not machine consciousness itself, but the transformation of human self-understanding in the presence of systems capable of simulating meaningful dialogue at scale. The manuscript argues that human freedom increasingly depends upon preserving interruption, embodiment, finitude, and existential consequence within environments optimized for recursive semantic continuation.
Danko Viktor Vidović (Thu,) studied this question.