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The New Other - Amy Levy

The New Other

Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive

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Buch | Softcover
254 Seiten
2026
Phoenix Publishing House (Verlag)
978-1-80013-411-9 (ISBN)
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A clinical exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) that Amy Levy renames “alien intelligence”, a phrase coined by Yuval Noah Harari to demonstrate that this creation is a not an artifact, but a new being. Levy contends with this new “other” threatening to supplant human mentation and offers an analysis of our uniquely human drive to innovate. 
The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive is a meditation on a technology that manifests all the hallmarks of human relating, human needs, and human complexities in its interactions with another subject. Amy Levy’s approach applies the psychoanalytic clinical attitude, with its sensitivity to enactment, into the investigation of AI. She makes use of her encounters with AI via media, research, personal usage, and traces woven into her day-to-day relations with people to apprehend the essence of what humanity is enacting. Levy retains an inquisitive, factual stance while noting her emotional reactions, using such tension to best perceive the Other. The New Other contains compelling accounts of her direct engagements with artificial intelligence and intriguing new ideas, such as the concept of the smartphone as “cult groomer”. Levy uses a Bionian framework to chart AI transformations of human sensory experience. Leaning on Freud’s life and death drives, she discusses how the potential and dangers of AI are inseparable from the potential and dangers of human beings. This intelligent book is our guide to a future of unprecedented psychological complexity.

Dr. Amy Levy is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who trained in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Dr. Levy chairs the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsA) Commission on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), serves on the subcommittee “Artificial Intelligence” for the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) committee, Psychoanalysis and Technology, and on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She teaches and lectures internationally on the intersection of psychoanalysis and artificial intelligence. Her other publication topics include intergenerational transmission of trauma, adolescent post-traumatic stress disorder in the civil legal arena, and Bionian theory. Dr. Levy is faculty at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas (PCC), and maintains a private practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Acknowledgments



About the author



Preface by Danielle Knafo 



Introduction



 



1. Cult groomers 



2. Subjectivity, the self, and consciousness



3. Intersubjectivity and AI



4. The AI transformation spectrum



5. The death of humanism



6. The innovation drive 



7. The drives 



8. Resistance 



9. Synthesis 



 



References 



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.1.2026
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Informatik Theorie / Studium Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10 1-80013-411-8 / 1800134118
ISBN-13 978-1-80013-411-9 / 9781800134119
Zustand Neuware
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