Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.

All had suffered through a first episode of psychosis and were either experiencing or had experienced clinically significant delusions in the past. People whose delusions were related to substance use ...

Clever research reveals that therapy-oriented AI chats can cause AI to act delusionally. The root is AI personas. I explain ...

Imagine a tribe of uncontacted hunter-gatherers in the deepest Amazon rainforest. Anthropologists airdrop dozens of smartphones loaded with social media apps, with solar chargers, simple instructions ...

ChatGPT has added new mental health guardrails after reports of the bot feeding people’s delusions. The artificial intelligence software has changed the way humans interact with computers. And while ...

Another study suggests that social media use may contribute to mental health issues, particularly for people with conditions affecting their sense of self and reality. Researchers from Simon Fraser ...

People experiencing delusions during an episode of psychosis may be "living out" a deeply held emotion, according to new research that provides a "radically different perspective" on one of the most ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly woven into everyday life, from chatbots that offer companionship to algorithms that ...

A shipping clerk begins to think he’s been given a secret task of geopolitical significance. A government employee believes that descriptions of a certain actor in the newspaper are actually about her ...

What happens when the mind convinces someone that they are already dead? Cotard Delusion is a rare and baffling psychiatric disorder that makes individuals believe they no longer exist, have lost ...

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