A reported use of AI interaction as a low-stakes space for structured exploration of one's own ideas, absent the social considerations of a human audience. The construct concerns the user's described use of the channel, not emotional closeness to the system.
STATE. The user rates, after relevant sessions, the extent to which the interaction was used to explore or rehearse thinking without social inhibition (e.g. judgment-free exploration items). The construct is the rated degree of inhibition-free exploratory use of the channel.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Post-session self-report: 4-5 Likert items (5-point) on judgment-free exploratory use and absence of social-performance concern; could be reported as subscale mean; internal consistency via Cronbach's alpha.
https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-relation-trust