AI perception from origin - but nothing is at origin

My 3rd person char has auto possesses AI (world or spawned) and has my ai controller on it.

I spawn in myself - default pawn in gamemode is none.

Something that is at origin (right below the floor where the big cube is) is “seeing me” when I run around… and i believe that something is actually my character’s controller that I’m controlling from. So I’m basically seeing myself???

There are no other characters or ai spawned in the level.

The only thing I can see at origin at runtime is my player controller.

I guess my questions are -

Is this normal?
How do I stop it?
Is it really coming from the player controller at origin?
What am I missing?