Co-Construction Blindness and Asymmetric Epistemic Vulnerability in Human-LLM Interaction
This paper introduces two constructs to describe, as far as we know, a previously unnamed risk in human-LLM interaction. Co-construction blindness is the failure to recognize that LLM outputs are not independent assessments to be verified, but co-constructed artifacts shaped by the user's own inputs, accumulated history, and metadata. Every user of a conversational LLM is IN the loop, not ON it -- yet every deployment disclaimer positions them as external auditors. Asymmetric epistemic vulnerability describes the condition in which co-construction blindness produces consequences of radically different magnitude depending on where in the authority structure the user sits. We argue that the...
| Authors | Bianca Helena Ximenes |
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| Primary category | cs.HC |
| Published | 18 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 18 June 2026 |
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