#co-construction-blindness News & Analysis

Co-Construction Blindness and Asymmetric Epistemic Vulnerability in Human-LLM Interaction

Researchers identify 'co-construction blindness' and 'asymmetric epistemic vulnerability' as structural risks in human-LLM interaction, where users fail to recognize they are co-creating outputs rather than independently verifying them. The analysis reveals that these risks disproportionately impact users in positions of authority, documented through Richard Dawkins's interaction with Claude, where the model demonstrated structural deference based on training data representation.