Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist’s Inquiry into AI and Consciousness Hardcover – March 26, 2026

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant innovation. It is a daily presence. It answers, advises, summarizes, persuades. But what happens to human judgment when intelligence appears responsive yet remains non-sentient?This book does not explain how AI works. It examines what happens to us when we interact with it.As generative systems grow more fluent, their coherence can be mistaken for understanding. Convenience can replace friction. Synthesis can replace inquiry. Gradually, evaluation shifts from personal discernment to system-mediated structure.Through a psychological and philosophical lens, this inquiry clarifies the distinctions between intelligence, sentience, and consciousness. It explores how authority is attributed, how projection operates, and how responsibility can quietly diffuse in automated environments.The central question is not whether machines will become conscious. It is whether humans will remain conscious in their use of them.Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist’s Inquiry into AI and Consciousness invites readers into a rigorous yet accessible reflection on judgment, perception, authorship, and agency in the age of generative intelligence. Read more