AI Chatbots May Be Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors

One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal. And while AI technology might not introduce the delusion, “the person tells the computer it’s their reality and the computer accepts it as truth and reflects it back,” says Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at the University of California, calling the AI chatbots “complicit in cycling that delusion.”

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