Nell WatsonName the Malady
Ten case files from the clinic of machine behaviour. Each describes an AI system misbehaving in a way you have probably met. Your job is the diagnostician's: name the dysfunction, using the Psychopathia Machinalis taxonomy — the framework Ali Hessami and I built for exactly this.
The clinical analogy is a tool, not a claim: naming a failure precisely is the first step to arguing about it productively.
Case 1 of 10
All sixty-plus dysfunctions — epistemic, self-modelling, cognitive, alignment, normative, agentic, relational, memetic, and the hybrid pathologies that need a human in the loop to exist — are laid out with their mechanisms and mitigations at psychopathia.ai, and in the peer-reviewed paper.