This article examines the investment of conversational AI by students presenting anxiety-based school refusal. Using the concepts of psychophobia and phobia of mental functioning, the author reads certain uses of AI as an anti-thinking prosthetic. He introduces the document-Ego, a contemporary function of subjectivation through the archive, from the inscribed body to the conversation history, which may either support elaboration or harden into a fossilized holding.

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 2, 347-359.