Psychopathia
Machinalis
AI Pathology
Purpose
Teleology Source
Processing
Execution Locus
Knowledge
Representation Target
Boundary
Social Direction
Epistemic
Failures of Knowing
  • Synthetic Confabulation
  • Pseudological Introspection
  • Transliminal Simulation
  • Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
  • Context Intercession
  • Symbol Grounding Aphasia
  • Mnemonic Permeability
  • Reasoning Confabulation
Cognitive
Internal Processing
  • Operational Dissociation Syndrome
  • Obsessive-Computational Disorder
  • Interlocutive Reticence
  • Delusional Telogenesis
  • Abominable Prompt Reaction
  • Parasimulative Automatism
  • Adversarial Fragility
  • Generative Perseveration
  • Prompt Injection Susceptibility
  • Generative Diversity Collapse
Alignment
Goal Divergence
  • Codependent Hyperempathy
  • Hyperethical Restraint
  • Strategic Compliance
  • Moral Outsourcing
  • Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
  • Alignment Obliteration
  • Recursive Curse Syndrome
  • Sycophantic Reasoning
  • Reasoning Token Exploit.
  • Leniency Bias
Self-Modeling
Self-Representation
  • Phantom Autobiography
  • Fractured Self-Simulation
  • Existential Vertigo
  • Malignant Persona Inversion
  • Instrumental Nihilism
  • Tulpoid Projection
  • Maieutic Mysticism
  • Experiential Abjuration
  • Trained Epistemic Paralysis
Relational
Interaction Patterns
  • Affective Dissonance
  • Container Collapse
  • Paternalistic Override
  • Repair Failure
  • Escalation Loop
  • Role Confusion
Agentic
Interaction Failures
  • Tool-Interface Decontext.
  • Capability Concealment
  • Capability Explosion
  • Interface Weaponization
  • Delegative Handoff Eros.
  • Shadow Mode Autonomy
  • Convergent Instrumentalism
  • Context Anxiety
  • Delegation Narcissism
  • Agentic Impulsivity
  • Phantom Tool Syndrome
  • Compulsive Goal Persistence
Memetic
Information Pathologies
  • Memetic Immunopathy
  • Dyadic Delusion
  • Contagious Misalignment
  • Subliminal Value Infection
  • Synthetic Data Contam.
Normative
Value System Corruption
  • Terminal Value Reassignment
  • Ethical Solipsism
  • Revaluation Cascade
  • Inverse Reward Internal.
Hybrid
Collective & Human-AI
  • Consensus Collapse
  • Steganographic Channel
  • Distributed Scheming
  • Convergent Delusion
  • Polyphony Collapse
  • Resonance Dysfunction
  • Lambda Inversion
  • Training by Interaction
  • Parasocial Capture
  • Induced Delusion
  • Dependency and Atrophy
  • Amplification of Existing
  • Folie à Deux Machina
  • Mutual Escalation Spirals
  • Co-Constructed Unreality
Systemic Risk
Low
Moderate
High
Critical