{"id":19911,"date":"2025-08-28T04:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/ai-psychosis-could-chatbots-fuel-delusional-thinking-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:37:14","slug":"ai-psychosis-could-chatbots-fuel-delusional-thinking-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/ai-psychosis-could-chatbots-fuel-delusional-thinking-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI psychosis\u2019: could chatbots fuel delusional thinking? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are increasing reports of people experiencing delusions after intensive use of AI chatbots. The phenomenon, dubbed \u2018AI psychosis\u2019, has raised concerns that features built into large language models may contribute to some users losing touch with reality. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Hamilton Morrin, a psychiatrist and researcher at King\u2019s College London, about his recent preprint exploring who is at risk and how models could be made safer<\/p>\n<p><em>Clips: CBS, BBC, NBC<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/audio\/2025\/aug\/28\/ai-psychosis-could-chatbots-fuel-delusional-thinking-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5c7f3e87dd2f78e8b7b20c37b416ca3897104db8\/999_264_4435_3548\/master\/4435.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=15bdf82f938ae0fcafb3b9c661722006\" title=\"\u2018AI psychosis\u2019: could chatbots fuel delusional thinking? \u2013 podcast\" \/>There are increasing reports of people experiencing delusions after intensive use of AI chatbots. The phenomenon, dubbed \u2018AI psychosis\u2019, has raised concerns that features built into large language models may contribute to some users losing touch with reality. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Hamilton Morrin, a psychiatrist and researcher at King\u2019s College London, about his recent preprint exploring who is at risk and how models could be made safer<br \/>\nClips: CBS, BBC, NBC Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are increasing reports of people experiencing delusions after intensive use of AI chatbots. The phenomenon, dubbed \u2018AI psychosis\u2019, has raised concerns that features built into large language models may contribute to some users losing touch with reality. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Hamilton Morrin, a psychiatrist and researcher at King\u2019s College London, about his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/ai-psychosis-could-chatbots-fuel-delusional-thinking-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018AI psychosis\u2019: could chatbots fuel delusional thinking? \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}