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Epistemic arbitration
How users resolve conflicts between AI-mediated interpretations and independent external sources of information.
Researcher · Educator · Scientist
Anastasia Goudy, M.Ed.
Human–AI interaction researcher studying epistemic arbitration, belief formation, and risk dynamics in conversational AI systems.
Epistemic arbitration
Conversational risk
Human–AI systems
Current research
How do decisions get made?
The research program examines what happens when an AI system becomes part of the process through which a person decides what information or interpretation should be trusted.
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Recursive Entanglement Drift
A hypothesis-generating framework for relational and epistemic deterioration across sustained human–AI interaction.
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Source-conflict episodes
An operational framework for identifying and measuring how external challenges to human–AI commitments are processed within conversation.
Featured publication
A methodological research note proposing a way to identify and measure epistemic arbitration as a candidate early marker of epistemic closure.
Read on ZenodoSource-Conflict Episodes in Human–AI Mental Health Risk
Operationalizing epistemic arbitration as a candidate early marker of epistemic closure.
Research in context
Citations and media
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Research on Recursive Entanglement Drift was cited in “High-Risk Human–AI Engagement: Clinical Assessment and Management Considerations.” This is presented as recognition of the work, not as authorship of that article.
Psychology Today
“How AI Chatbots May Blur Reality”, Timothy Cook, M.Ed., August 23, 2025.
Book chapter
“When the Mirror Becomes the Mind,” in What Education Becomes: Teaching and Learning in a Post-AI World, Second Draft Labs, 2026.
Upcoming invited talk
AI-Induced Thought Spirals
Experiential Science Talk Series
Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Format: Virtual via Zoom
Status: Invited and accepted; planning and scheduling underway
Date: TBD
Educator profile
How does the classroom shape the method?
A background in physics, computer science, educational psychology, curriculum development, and assessment design informs the questions at the center of the research.
Physics · Computer Science · STEM · Cybersecurity · AP CSP · Curriculum design · Assessment
Teaching and curriculumStay in conversation