Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias (Psychoanalysis, Technology, and the Future) - Hardcover

Messina, Karyne E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032959150 ISBN 13: 9781032959153

Publisher: Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

In Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias: Refractions in the Digital Mirror, Karyne E. Messina uses a psychoanalytic lens to explore the subconscious forces driving AI development.

This book provides a unique psychoanalytic framework for understanding how AI systems internalize and amplify the unconscious biases of their human creators. Through detailed case studies in clinical healthcare, predictive policing, and automated hiring, Messina introduces concepts such as projection, splitting and projective identification. She illustrates how these psychological mechanisms - originally developed to explain human behavior - are inadvertently built into the logic of AI, creating systems that replicate societal inequities on a massive scale.

Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias will be of interest to all readers interested in how AI can benefit from psychoanalytic insight, including psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and academics and scholars of AI ethics and technology policy.

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About the Author

Karyne E. Messina, FABP, is a psychoanalyst and a training analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, Washington, DC. She is a member of the medical staff at Johns Hopkins Medicine, MD, and serves as the chair of the scholarship and writing section of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education of The American Psychoanalysis Association where she is a founding member of the Council on Artificial Intelligence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032959150
• ISBN 13: 9781032959153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 130