No. 55 (2025)
Editorial

Artificial intelligence (AI), modernity, and mental health

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  • Diego Rodríguez Estrada
Diego Rodríguez Estrada
Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología. Otavalo. Ecuador

Published 2025-12-09

Keywords

  • self-diagnosis,
  • chatbot,
  • malingering,
  • artificial intelligence,
  • modernity

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Rodríguez Estrada, D. (2025). Artificial intelligence (AI), modernity, and mental health. Revista Sarance, 55, 5-16. https://doi.org/10.51306/ioasarance.055.01

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Abstract

In modern times, medical self-diagnosis has ceased to be an act of questioning and reflection and has become a standardized procedure in databases, subject to the control of protocols and with no room for individuality. The commodification of the Internet as a domestic technology has transformed both the role of the doctor and that of the patient, thereby weakening the epistemic authority of the health professional. The use of new artificial intelligence devices in self-diagnosis provides an illusion of agency and self management, which nevertheless reveals a lack of real autonomy on the part of the subject, since the procedure is tied to algorithmic logic. This pseudo-psychiatry 2.0 fails to read the subject's suffering, reducing it to a mere set of categorized anomalies, without considering specific experiential and cultural contexts.

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