Guardian Podcast Probes AI Psychosis as Chatbots Reach More Than 1 Billion Users
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 13
Guardian Podcast Probes AI Psychosis as Chatbots Reach More Than 1 Billion Users
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 13
Summary
A live Science Weekly episode recorded at the London Podcast Festival examined "AI psychosis," a term used for cases in which chatbot users become convinced they made breakthroughs, cured diseases or invented technologies.
Michael Safi discussed those cases from season 2 of the Guardian's Black Box podcast, which focuses on people whose interactions with AI appear to have fueled delusional beliefs.
Ian Sample, Safi and co-host Madeleine Finlay used the discussion to ask what such episodes reveal about AI's psychological effects as chatbot use spreads.
More than 1 billion people now use the technology, making the phenomenon a broader public-interest question rather than an isolated fringe issue.