Estudio Santa Rita Illustration of a silhouetted person looking at a digital Rorschach inkblot (Credit: Estudio Santa Rita) Rorschach tests play with the human imagination and our mind’s ability to impart meaning onto the world around us – but what does AI see in them? For more than a century, the Rorschach inkblot test has been widely used as a window into people’s personality. Even if you haven’t done one yourself, you’ll recognise the mirrored ink smudges that form ambiguous shapes on cards. Developed by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in 1921 , the test involves showing a number of inkblots to subjects, then asking them to say what they see. The images are deliberately inscrutable and open to interpretation. For decades they were popular among psychologists as a way […]
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