What Psychological Harm From AI Will Look Like in a Courtroom
Genevieve Bartuski Genevieve Bartuski

What Psychological Harm From AI Will Look Like in a Courtroom

When AI-related cases reach the courtroom, the central question is not how the system was built. It is what the system did to a person. As a forensic psychologist, I evaluate psychological harm after it has occurred by examining foreseeability, duty of care, safeguards, and preventability. As AI systems increasingly shape emotion, attachment, identity, and behavior, psychological harm is becoming a legally intelligible category of injury, not a theoretical concern. Courts do not litigate algorithms. They litigate outcomes.

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