Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings
One woman, who had no history of mental illness, asked ChatGPT for advice on a major purchase she had been fretting about. After days of the bot validating her worries, she became convinced that businesses were colluding to have her investigated by the government. www.nytimes.co…
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…