News Summary

• There's mounting evidence for AI-generated thought disturbance to the point of delusional belief.
• Imagine being in a romantic relationship with your mirror image.
• With this boomerang theory, arguing with the AI bot is really arguing with oneself.
• We need others to objectively provide feedback, and that involves sentience, or the ability to feel, which a bot cannot do.
• If someone creates the perfect partner/friend bot, it will probably have an element of sycophancy, affirming everything we want to be true.