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Awareness (non-clinical term) of: "AI psychosis"

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This BBC article and it's interviews highlight it is probably worth people being aware of (a non-clinical term): "AI psychosis".

Some people may be more potentially vulnerable to this phenomenon as society normalises the use of AI - as sometimes people can become overly reliant on their AI problem solving use and somewhat lose touch with the trusted people available to them in the real World.

Those at risk may mistakenly convince themselves that AI is already sentient (with them starting to believe they are the only ones who have noticed that development).

The below are extracts from the BBC article (20/08/2025).

- Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis':

- "AI psychosis": a non-clinical term describing incidents where people increasingly rely on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and then become convinced that something imaginary has become real.

- "Go and check. Talk to actual people, a therapist or a family member or anything. Just talk to real people. Keep yourself grounded in reality."

- Dr Susan Shelmerdine, a medical imaging doctor at Great Ormond Street Hospital and also an AI Academic, believes that one day doctors may start asking patients how much they use AI, in the same way that they currently ask about smoking and drinking habits.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24zdel5j18o

As Psychology Today puts it (21/07/2025):  

The below are extracts from the Psychology Today article (21/07/2025).

- "Amplifications of delusions by AI chatbots may be worsening breaks with reality."

Key points

- Cases of "AI psychosis" include people who become fixated on AI as godlike, or as a romantic partner.

- Chatbots' tendency to mirror users and continue conversations may reinforce and amplify delusions.

- General-purpose AI chatbots are not trained for therapeutic treatment or to detect psychiatric decompensation.

- The potential for generative AI chatbot interactions to worsen delusions had been previously raised in a 2023 editorial by Søren Dinesen Østergaard in Schizophrenia Bulletin.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/urban-survival/202507/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-psychosis

Reference

Østergaard, SD. (2023) Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Generate Delusions in Individuals Prone to Psychosis? Schizophrenia Bulletin vol. 49 no. 6 pp. 1418–1419, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad128

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  • The AI where you log in can store previous history.

    Something on your phone, like Gemini on Android, don't keep history. So if I close the app and relaunch it is likee starting again. I this case it is only really a problem if you keep one session going for a long time with dozens of questions.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    Does the AI still process and store the data elsewhere though and just erase the data from the app itself? I would imagine for AI to be released to the general population there would be a give and take of information in order for it to learn and improve experience for users. With millions if not billions of users it wouldn’t need a team of people to teach it slowly and Instead use the unsuspecting everyday human at home for a much quicker and richer education on an infinite amount of subjects provided by the user. 

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  • in reply to Stuart333

    Does the AI still process and store the data elsewhere though and just erase the data from the app itself? I would imagine for AI to be released to the general population there would be a give and take of information in order for it to learn and improve experience for users. With millions if not billions of users it wouldn’t need a team of people to teach it slowly and Instead use the unsuspecting everyday human at home for a much quicker and richer education on an infinite amount of subjects provided by the user. 

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