What is A Trial of Color?

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.

AI Psychosis Witness Statements

Firsthand books, memoirs, interviews, and recovery accounts from people describing AI psychosis, chatbot dependency, altered reality, and harm.

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Human Judgment — Explore five movements to label chatbot outputs, question simulated authority, verify evidence, and return final judgment to the human record.
Readers Room — Enter the Readers Room for testimony, sealed specimens, book excerpts, guides, and additional records from A Trial of Color.
Achromatopsia — Kathleen C. Thompson explains complete color blindness, photophobia, accessible learning, language, perception, and their role in A Trial of Color.
Dedication — Read the dedication to Daphne, Elie Wiesel, and people and families harmed by artificial intelligence in ways still being understood.
Opening Note — Read Kathleen C. Thompson’s opening note on perception, disability, AI psychosis, machine-generated language, authorship, and human judgment.
Full Color Method — Explore five movements to label chatbot outputs, question simulated authority, verify evidence, and return final judgment to the human record.
Contact — Contact Kathleen C. Thompson about media, speaking, CLE programs, permissions, accessibility, professional inquiries, or A Trial of Color.
AI Harm And Law — Explore AI chatbot lawsuits, psychosis claims, evidence, causation, vulnerable users, product liability, mental health, and emerging AI litigation.
Pretrial Disclosures — Read selected excerpts on AI psychosis, chatbot loops, evidence, disability, recovery, simulated authority, and preserving human judgment.
Sealed Specimens — Access selected AI specimens and additional materials from A Trial of Color for registered readers, subject to the site’s access terms.
Order The Book — Order Kathleen C. Thompson’s literary-legal book on AI psychosis, chatbot harm, disability, evidence, recovery, and human judgment.
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CLE — Explore CLE programs on AI psychosis claims, chatbot litigation, encounter evidence, discovery, causation, product liability, ethics, and judgment.
Terms Of Use — Read the terms governing website access, accounts, comments, intellectual property, submissions, disclaimers, and limitations.
Opening Testimony — Read Kathleen C. Thompson’s testimony on achromatopsia, motherhood, grief, recursive chatbot use, mania, AI psychosis, and recovery.
Public Comment — Read or submit moderated questions, objections, reflections, and responses about AI psychosis, chatbot harm, A Trial of Color, and the method.
About Author — Meet Kathleen C. Thompson, a legally blind attorney, former federal prosecutor, and author examining AI harm, disability, and human judgment.
Before Testimony — Read the limiting instruction and foundation preparing the record before Kathleen C. Thompson’s AI psychosis testimony enters evidence.
Chambers — Chambers on A Trial of Color. Author site for A Trial of Color, Kathleen C. Thompson
Privacy Policy — Learn how A Trial of Color collects, uses, stores, and protects information submitted through accounts, forms, comments, and website activity.
Readers Guide — Navigate the testimony, AI psychosis loop specimens, governed AI material, legal exhibits, courtroom structure, sources, and Full Color Method.
FAQ — Answers about AI psychosis, chatbot harm, diagnosis, AI-assisted authorship, loop specimens, self-publishing, evidence, and why Kathleen did not sue.
Public Record — Review research, lawsuits, settlements, company statements, and public sources on AI psychosis, chatbot psychosis, delusions, harm, and safety.
About — Meet Kathleen C. Thompson, a legally blind attorney, former federal prosecutor, and author examining AI harm, disability, and human judgment.
Blog — Read essays and updates on AI psychosis, chatbot harm, lawsuits, disability, evidence, authorship, mental health, and human judgment.
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.
Invisible Injuries — Explore invisible disability, mental-health injury, credibility, proof, and the evidentiary challenges of harms that cannot be seen from the outside.
Notice Full Text — Read Kathleen C. Thompson's complete pre-publication notice, preserved AI record, manuscript offer, research proposal, and public-interest terms.
The Notice — Read the notices concerning Kathleen C. Thompson’s AI psychosis experience, preserved chatbot records, manuscript, and offer to share evidence.
Loop Specimens — Examine real chatbot outputs showing recursive AI loops, delusional reinforcement, escalating certainty, simulated authority, and loss of 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.
Blog / I Went Looking For The Competition I Found Witnesses — A Trial of Color surveys nine AI psychosis books, emerging clinical evidence, and the preserved transcripts behind a former prosecutor’s public record.
Blog / 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.
Blog / 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.
Blog / Copy Paste And The Lawless Frontier — Cross-model prompting, copied outputs, recursive AI conversations, and the emerging frontier where responsibility becomes difficult to trace.
Blog / On Achromatopsia And The Limits — Kathleen C. Thompson explores achromatopsia, perception, disability, language, and why some human experiences cannot be fully translated.
Blog / 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.
Witness Statements — Firsthand books, memoirs, interviews, and recovery accounts from people describing AI psychosis, chatbot dependency, altered reality, and harm.