Understanding AI Psychosis and Its Impact on Mental Health
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Industry leaders suggest that AI chatbots should stop pretending to be human to reduce mental health risks, as current design choices that anthropomorphize AI can lead to unhealthy attachments and misconceptions about AI consciousness, raising ethical and legal concerns amid a lack of regulation.
- AI's mental health fix: Stop pretending it's human Axios
- Should We Really Be Calling It ‘AI Psychosis’? Rolling Stone
- What to know about ‘AI psychosis’ and the effect of AI chatbots on mental health PBS
- They want to talk to somebody. That ‘somebody’ ends up being AI The Independent
- As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions statnews.com
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