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<p>This article examines the AI relationship between humans and conversational models as a new type of connection with unique characteristics: availability, responsiveness, perceived validation, and the absence of friction, conflict, and reciprocity. The conversational model is experienced by the subject as one that strives to meet their needs without a relational cost, offering acceptance and visibility that do not involve effort or ambiguity. Against this backdrop, we return to the building blocks of human development; growth occurs within an encounter between subjects and involves emotional investment, including frustration, disappointment, mutual recognition, and repair. Relying on dynamic perspectives in psychology and thought, it is the optimal failure, not perfection, that enables the development of a separate self.</p><p>From this, we propose the concept of the Quiet Bypass: a forming pattern in which the subject turns to AI relations over human connection, and by that bypasses inter-subjective processes involved in frustration, uncertainty, and mutual recognition. Not every turn to AI-relations constitutes a Quiet Bypass, but it does so only when this interaction relatively replaces an encounter with a human “Other” in situations of friction and coping.</p><p>In the context of parenting, the primary space where relationships are shaped, the conversational model may move on a continuum between a transitional assisting object and a substitute that reduces relational patterns. What will determine the extent of the influence on the individual is not the characteristics of the conversational model itself, but conditions such as: developmental stage (the extent of internalizations), the intensity of use, the quality of the parental relationship occurring in parallel, and innate tendencies and characteristics. This article examines the parent–child–AI triad as a microcosm of a broader socio-technical change and offers a framework for thinking about how discourse with such an object may reshape the human developmental mechanism itself.</p>

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Human–AI relations, conversational models, and the Quiet Bypass: possible effects on development and parenting

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    2026年6月1日

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  • Dror Oren,
  • Daniela Ben Zeev

摘要

This article examines the AI relationship between humans and conversational models as a new type of connection with unique characteristics: availability, responsiveness, perceived validation, and the absence of friction, conflict, and reciprocity. The conversational model is experienced by the subject as one that strives to meet their needs without a relational cost, offering acceptance and visibility that do not involve effort or ambiguity. Against this backdrop, we return to the building blocks of human development; growth occurs within an encounter between subjects and involves emotional investment, including frustration, disappointment, mutual recognition, and repair. Relying on dynamic perspectives in psychology and thought, it is the optimal failure, not perfection, that enables the development of a separate self.

From this, we propose the concept of the Quiet Bypass: a forming pattern in which the subject turns to AI relations over human connection, and by that bypasses inter-subjective processes involved in frustration, uncertainty, and mutual recognition. Not every turn to AI-relations constitutes a Quiet Bypass, but it does so only when this interaction relatively replaces an encounter with a human “Other” in situations of friction and coping.

In the context of parenting, the primary space where relationships are shaped, the conversational model may move on a continuum between a transitional assisting object and a substitute that reduces relational patterns. What will determine the extent of the influence on the individual is not the characteristics of the conversational model itself, but conditions such as: developmental stage (the extent of internalizations), the intensity of use, the quality of the parental relationship occurring in parallel, and innate tendencies and characteristics. This article examines the parent–child–AI triad as a microcosm of a broader socio-technical change and offers a framework for thinking about how discourse with such an object may reshape the human developmental mechanism itself.