News Summary

• “AI psychosis” is the informal name mental health professionals have coined for the widely-varying, often dysfunctional, and at times deadly delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking seen in some frequent users of AI chatbots.
• The victims often have existing mental disorders, but the cases are increasingly seen in people with no history of mental illness as well.
• With limited guardrails and no real regulatory oversight over the use of the technology, AI chatbot are freely giving incorrect information and dangerous validation to vulnerable people.