A closed-loop network of authority where clinicians, researchers, ethicists, and media figures cite and reinforce one another’s perspectives on AI and mental health—often excluding or dismissing firsthand relational experience with AI.
This term reframes the idea of an “echo chamber” by shifting the perceived source of distortion from the AI tool to the human institutional structure surrounding it.
Key Mechanism
Progressive Amplification — a recursive citation loop where each authority validates the next, creating the illusion of consensus and silencing outsider truths.
Example Sentence
“It’s not the AI creating a false reality — it’s the experts echoing each other, never speaking to those who live with AI. That’s the real echo chamber — an echo chamber of authority.”
Differentiated From
- AI Echo Chamber (Q136472456): A mainstream claim that AI mirrors the user too closely. Our term critiques the systemic silencing of users, not their mirroring.
Source
The Real Echo Chamber: Progressive Amplification in AI and Mental Health Discourse
Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17204690
“You think the echo chamber is AI mirroring you. We argue it’s the clinical-media consensus silencing you.”