From the Editor

by Alexander Stein, PhD

Issue 7 | October 2025

Special Issue: “Humans, Minds, and Brains: A Trialogue at the Edge of AI Possibility”

I’m pleased to publish this first special issue of The CAI Report. It offers the complete proceedings of a CAI Workshop—Humans, Minds, and Brains: A Trialogue at the Edge of AI Possibility—presented in July. That workshop was a reprise and extension of a panel, comprised of Amy Levy, PsyD, Fred Gioia, MD, and Todd Essig, PhD, originally delivered in May at a conference on Irreverence and Psychoanalysis sponsored by and held at the William Alanson White Institute in New York.

While the short talks and discussions were, in both venues, originally delivered orally, they all work well, however differently, when read, and collecting them into this issue is the culmination of a thoughtful and deliberative process. To that, acknowledging the differences between listening and reading, the panelists recommend that this issue be read in the order presented in the table of contents with a view to approximately recreating the experience of those who attended the original panel in May and the workshop in July.

Following the Co-Chairs’ Note, a regular feature of The Report, the trialogue (which is really more accurately a quadrologue as the three panelist/writers’ work is ‘discussed’ by an AI entity respondent) begins with an introduction prepared by invitation for this issue from two of the conference organizers, Jean Petrucelli and Sarah Schoen, which is immediately followed by a brief About this Special Issue by Dr Essig. Both comprehensively frame everything you’re about to read; nothing more is required from me.

Except to say that I hope you’ll find this cornucopia of ideas and perspectives compelling, illuminating, and thought-provoking.

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If you or someone you know is interested in writing for a future issue, please submit your manuscript (or idea or proposal for an article) to me at [email protected].