Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings
Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.
wonder if part of this is that using chatbots leads some users to lose whatever “theory of other minds” they used to have; the chatbots' fluency “proves” that other people are no different from and no better than machines www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u... [image]
Fascinating article, conversations w/ medical professionals about AI use in their patients. Takeaways: — 1) AI psychosis moving firmly from anecdote to data — 2) “They were going to have a breakdown anyway” misunderstands causes of psychotic breaks — 3) Chatbot addiction m…