Canada’s psychiatrists urged to screen people at risk of AI ‘chatbot psychosis’

National Post: “While most users engage harmlessly, a clinically significant subset may develop high-risk problematic human-AI relationships,” according to the primer for psychiatrists published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

“This spectrum of risk can vary from reinforcing insecurity, anxiety and ideas of self-harm to a phenomenon dubbed ‘Chatbot Psychosis,’” the authors wrote — delusional thinking that worsens, or appears suddenly, following intense chats with a conversational bot…

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
×