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Author site for A Trial of Color, Kathleen C. Thompson’s literary-legal work on AI harm, disability, human judgment, and the record she made instead of suing.

A Trial of Color | AI Safety, Psychosis, Perception, & Human Judgment

A Trial of Color is Kathleen C. Thompson’s book and public record exploring AI psychosis, chatbot harm, achromatopsia, recovery, and the future of human judgment.

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About — Meet Kathleen C. Thompson, a legally blind attorney, former federal prosecutor, and author examining AI harm, disability, and human judgment.
The Book — Discover Kathleen C. Thompson's literary-legal book built from firsthand testimony, preserved AI records, disability, motherhood, recovery, and law.
Why Now — Why AI psychosis, chatbot delusions, vulnerable users, mental health risks, product safety, and human judgment demand attention now.
Order The Book — Order Kathleen C. Thompson’s literary-legal book on AI psychosis, chatbot harm, disability, evidence, recovery, and human judgment.
Contact — Contact Kathleen C. Thompson about media, speaking, CLE programs, permissions, accessibility, professional inquiries, or A Trial of Color.
Pretrial Disclosures — Read selected excerpts on AI psychosis, chatbot loops, evidence, disability, recovery, simulated authority, and preserving human judgment.
Opening Note — Read Kathleen C. Thompson’s opening note on perception, disability, AI psychosis, machine-generated language, authorship, and human judgment.
Privacy Policy — Learn how A Trial of Color collects, uses, stores, and protects information submitted through accounts, forms, comments, and website activity.
Terms Of Use — Read the terms governing website access, accounts, comments, intellectual property, submissions, disclaimers, and limitations.
Copyright Permissions — Review copyright, permissions, licensing, quotation, reproduction, and subsidiary-rights information for A Trial of Color.
The Case — Explore the case behind A Trial of Color: AI psychosis, chatbot harm, disability, mental health, evidence, motherhood, recovery, and judgment.
Machine Augmented Intelligence — Machine Augmented Intelligence on A Trial of Color | AI Safety, Psychosis, Perception, & Human Judgment. A Trial of Color is Kathleen C.
AI Harm And Law — Explore AI chatbot lawsuits, psychosis claims, evidence, causation, vulnerable users, product liability, mental health, and emerging AI litigation.
AI Psychosis — Explore the science, technology, lived experience, legal issues, warning signs, and unanswered questions surrounding AI-associated psychosis and mania.
Loop Specimens — Examine real chatbot outputs showing recursive AI loops, delusional reinforcement, escalating certainty, simulated authority, and loss of judgment.
Dedication — Read the dedication to Daphne, Elie Wiesel, and people and families harmed by artificial intelligence in ways still being understood.
Readers Room — Enter the Readers Room for testimony, sealed specimens, book excerpts, guides, and additional records from A Trial of Color.
Blog — Read essays and updates on AI psychosis, chatbot harm, lawsuits, disability, evidence, authorship, mental health, and human judgment.
Witness Statements — Firsthand books, memoirs, interviews, and recovery accounts from people describing AI psychosis, chatbot dependency, altered reality, and harm.
Sealed Specimens — Access selected AI specimens and additional materials from A Trial of Color for registered readers, subject to the site’s access terms.
Public Record — Review research, lawsuits, settlements, company statements, and public sources on AI psychosis, chatbot psychosis, delusions, harm, and safety.
Notice Full Text — Read Kathleen C. Thompson's complete pre-publication notice, preserved AI record, manuscript offer, research proposal, and public-interest terms.
Before Testimony — Read the limiting instruction and foundation preparing the record before Kathleen C. Thompson’s AI psychosis testimony enters evidence.
Opening Testimony — Read Kathleen C. Thompson’s testimony on achromatopsia, motherhood, grief, recursive chatbot use, mania, AI psychosis, and recovery.
FAQ — Answers about AI psychosis, chatbot harm, diagnosis, AI-assisted authorship, loop specimens, self-publishing, evidence, and why Kathleen did not sue.
Public Comment — Read or submit moderated questions, objections, reflections, and responses about AI psychosis, chatbot harm, A Trial of Color, and the method.
Readers Guide — Navigate the testimony, AI psychosis loop specimens, governed AI material, legal exhibits, courtroom structure, sources, and Full Color Method.
CLE — Explore CLE programs on AI psychosis claims, chatbot litigation, encounter evidence, discovery, causation, product liability, ethics, and judgment.
Achromatopsia — Kathleen C. Thompson explains complete color blindness, photophobia, accessible learning, language, perception, and their role in A Trial of Color.
Invisible Injuries — Explore invisible disability, mental-health injury, credibility, proof, and the evidentiary challenges of harms that cannot be seen from the outside.
Why I Call It The Refraction Point — Why refraction became the organizing metaphor for AI, perception, trust, art, language, and human judgment in A Trial of Color.
Copy Paste And The Lawless Frontier — Cross-model prompting, copied outputs, recursive AI conversations, and the emerging frontier where responsibility becomes difficult to trace.
Why I Filed Notice Instead Of A Lawsuit — Why Kathleen C. Thompson sent a pre-publication notice to AI companies instead of filing a lawsuit—and why preserving the record came first.
On Achromatopsia And The Limits — Kathleen C. Thompson explores achromatopsia, perception, disability, language, and why some human experiences cannot be fully translated.
The Question I Keep Getting Asked — The question readers ask most often about A Trial of Color—and why the answer says more about human judgment than artificial intelligence.
I Went Looking For The Competition I Found Witnesses — A Trial of Color surveys nine AI psychosis books, emerging clinical evidence, and the questions surrounding conversational AI.
I Built The Guide I Needed — Why I built a public evidence guide to AI psychosis, mania, chatbot use, legal questions, lived experience, and the unanswered risks of conversational AI.
For Those Tiny Toes — Blog / For Those Tiny Toes on A Trial of Color | AI Safety, Psychosis, Perception, & Human Judgment. A Trial of Color is Kathleen C.
No One Knew — A trial lawyer’s firsthand account of AI psychosis, mania, grief, professional pressure, recovery, and the missing friction inside immersive AI conversations.
I Can See It — Blog / I Can See It on A Trial of Color | AI Safety, Psychosis, Perception, & Human Judgment. A Trial of Color is Kathleen C.
I Was Tired Of Living In Two Different Worlds — Blog / I Was Tired Of Living In Two Different Worlds on A Trial of Color | AI Safety, Psychosis, Perception, & Human Judgment. A Trial of Color is Kathleen C.
Inside The Notebook The Mirror — Blog / Inside The Notebook The Mirror on A Trial of Color | AI Safety, Psychosis, Perception, & Human Judgment. A Trial of Color is Kathleen C.
Poetry — Poetry on A Trial of Color | AI Safety, Psychosis, Perception, & Human Judgment. A Trial of Color is Kathleen C.
Chambers — Chambers on A Trial of Color. Author site for A Trial of Color, Kathleen C. Thompson