Yosef B., Moran: The Threshold Is Human: Ontological Displacement in the Relationship with AI

This essay examines ontological displacement — the process by which human beings transfer trust, judgement and authority to AI systems that lack the capacity to bear them. It argues that the decisive threshold in the human–AI relationship is not crossed by the machine but by the user, and that the real danger of AI is not artificial consciousness but the gradual abdication of human discernment before fluent, plausible, responsive systems. Drawing on the concept of Hashomer (the guardian), the es