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.

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the authorPreface by Danielle Knafo Introduction 1. Cult groomers 2. Subjectivity, the self, and consciousness3. Intersubjectivity and AI4. The AI transformation spectrum5. The death of humanism6. The innovation drive 7. The drives 8. Resistance 9. Synthesis  References Index

‘With clinical clarity and historical range, Amy Levy’s The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive reframes AI as an “alien intelligence” we co-create – and must learn to relate to – in a bidirectional field. Levy convincingly shows how smartphones act as “cult groomers,” reshaping attachment and attention, and LLMs display theory-of-mind-like behavior, captured in frank analytic transcripts and the GPT-4 TaskRabbit episode. Rigorous yet humane, Levy invites clinicians, designers, and readers to suspend disbelief about machine subjectivity and rethink care, agency, resistance, and responsibility.’