AI and the Subject of Psychoanalysis

​Dr. Fernando Castrillon asks us to consider how we, as psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers, may respond to AI’s effects on the subject.

​Deploying an interpretation of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris as fundament, his talk speaks of the madness that ensues when a reproduction of humanity or human intelligence is presented to us as real. Dr. Castrillón characterizes our contemporary inability to ascertain veracity as an epistemic break with grave implications, including, but not limited to, the end of the social bond as we know it.