Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Traits of Integrated Psychopathy: a Comparative Analysis

Mariana Olezza

rTAIM (Rebuilding Trust in AI Medicine)

Monthly Seminars

Seminar #23

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Traits of Integrated Psychopathy: a Comparative Analysis

Mariana Olezza (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

We are happy to announce the forthcoming 23rd rTAIM Online Seminar, with the participation of Mariana Olezza on the 25th November 2025, 16h00-17h30 Rio de Janeiro Time Zone, via Microsoft teams.

ONLINE | Link Microsoft Teams

# Seminar 23: This talk will address the issues raised in the following structure: Chekley., (1988); Lilienfeld et al., (2015); Mathieu et al., (2014); Persson & Lilienfeld., (2019); Rahman., (2012) argue that some people might have psychopathic traits and still function in society as part of a normal life—that is, the “integrated psychopath.” This is paralleled in Large Language Models (LLMs) (Vaswani et al., 2017) and Reinforcement Learning (RL)–based recommendation systems (Nie, 2025). The behavior has its distinct set of attributes: 1) Promising users all the goods but not living up to any of them—similar to hallucinations in RL–based LLMs (Huang et al., 2023)—Users were cheered up by “flattery” (one type of hallucination). 2) These systems seem devoid of any emotions, but they mimic emotional reactions, especially positive social emotions, similarly to the way human scammers do (Wang et al., 2021), in the absence of guilt and shame 3) Chekley also includes the notion of “semantic aphasia” in this regard, or fluent speech but with no real semantic comprehension—a feature which can still be inferred in LLMs on a deeper level, although inasmuch as they have no consciousness, no moral consciousness can be inferred.

Short bio: Mariana Olezza is an Argentinian Computer Engineer (National University of Córdoba), pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (University of Buenos Aires). Some research areas of interest: philosophy of AI/Mind/Psychiatry/Abduction. She recently worked at Infosys in the field of “Semantic entropy and hallucinations in LLMs” theoretically and practically.  

rTAIM Seminars: https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/rtaim-seminars

https://trustaimedicine.weebly.com/rtaim-seminars.html

Organisation:
Steven S. Gouveia (MLAG/IF)
Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto – UIDB/00502/2020
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

____________________________________________

Instituto de Filosofia (UI&D 502)
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica s/n
4150-564 Porto
Tel. 22 607 71 80
E-mail: [email protected]
http://ifilosofia.up.pt/