#ai-psychosis

#ai-psychosis

It has been noted that some individuals who engage with AI tools report symptoms of psychosis-especially delusions-resulting from their interactions with AI. 1,2 It may not only be the AI interaction, but exposure to its products, such as deep fakes, that are implicated. In fact, any AI-generated doubt concerning the bedrock or background belief system that stops a cascade of delusional thinking from starting 3 may be implicated.

"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."

Accounts of people developing psychosis - which renders them unable to distinguish between what is and is not reality - after interacting with generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have increased in the past few months. At least 17 people have been reported to have developed psychosis, according to a preprint posted online last month. After engaging with chatbots such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, some of these people experienced spiritual awakenings or uncovered what they thought were conspiracies.