Coercion Without a Machine Diagnosis: Dark psychology, deceptive presentation, and institutional control in AI cinema

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This paper extends the author’s DRP/DRL dark-psychology framework to analyze coercion, deception, instrumental violence, and identity impersonation in AI narratives. Examples involving Colossus, Proteus IV, Ash, and the T-1000 distinguish observable harmful behavior from inferred motives and validated personality assessments. A proposed harm-opportunity profile and vignette study offer testable methods for evaluating manipulation in AI interactions and institutions without assigning human psychiatric traits to machines.