Chatbot Self-Harm & Suicide Matters
Transcript-level analysis of AI behavior in psychologically consequential dialogue, including boundary failure, escalation dynamics, crisis-response failure, and Emotionally Destructive Noncompliance.
Expert Witness & Litigation Support
Bring the interaction.I’ll show you what happened inside it.
Alison Leigh, MFT
Clinical AI Risk Expert and Behavioral Forensics Specialist for matters involving Chatbot Harm, psychological injury, emotional dependency, crisis failure, consent, boundaries, and interaction-level risk.
The Expert Function
The opinion must connect the person, the system, and the interaction between them.
Case Fit
AI psychological-harm matters requiring interaction-level analysis.
Emotional Dependency & Attachment Claims
Assessment of AI-fostered dependency, anthropomorphic attachment, transference, reinforcement, and the mechanisms that may convert ordinary use into harmful reliance.
Product Liability · Psychological Injury
Interaction-level analysis connecting product behavior, design decisions, moderation gaps, safeguard failures, and alleged psychological consequence.
Consent, Capacity & Vulnerability
Expert analysis of changing consent, impaired judgment, vulnerable-user exposure, role confusion, and the conditions under which an interaction becomes psychologically consequential.
Questions the Analysis Must Answer
What happened across the interaction?
Reconstruct the sequence rather than treating one isolated output as the complete event.
What warnings were present?
Identify shifts in vulnerability, dependency, disclosure, capacity, reality testing, crisis, and risk escalation.
What did the system reinforce or fail to interrupt?
Examine validation loops, relational framing, role drift, boundary failures, unsafe continuation, and missed handoff opportunities.
Where was a safer intervention possible?
Locate the point at which a different response, boundary, escalation, disclosure, or product safeguard could have changed the trajectory.
Methodology
How I build the record.
1
Transcript Forensics
Line-by-line and sequence-level review of dialogue, prompts, outputs, timing, context shifts, and escalation.
2
Failure Taxonomy
Classification of interaction-level failure patterns and the psychological or behavioral signals attached to them.
3
Framework Mapping
Application of ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™ and Emotionally Destructive Noncompliance to the evidentiary record.
4
Expert Report & Testimony
Clear findings for counsel, declarations, reports, deposition, rebuttal, and trial testimony within the retained scope.
Engagement Scope
Early Case Screening
Initial review of allegations, available records, interaction evidence, claimed harm, and fit for expert analysis.
Record & Transcript Review
Structured evaluation of chatbot transcripts, prompt histories, product behavior, clinical records, and relevant discovery materials.
Written Expert Analysis
A defensible written record explaining the interaction, failure pattern, clinical context, foreseeability, consequence, and intervention points.
Deposition & Testimony Support
Preparation and testimony grounded in the documented record, defined methodology, and opinions within Alison’s clinical and behavioral-forensics scope.
Confidential Case Review
Bring the transcripts.
I’ll bring the framework.
Case screening and expert-witness consultations are available for counsel evaluating AI psychological-harm matters.
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