AI chatbots hallucinate and are also excessively sycophantic in their answer. A new study shows that this is extremely bad ...

Former Attorney General Matt Platkin’s new firm filed a lawsuit against one of the country’s largest artificial intelligence ...

Cazzie David: I have been reminded in the last two weeks why it was so horrible. Obviously, it’s so lucky to have a book published, but it’s hard to know if it’s worth the agony. Talking about it ...

Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini encouraged a 36-year-old Florida man to embark on violent missions and to ...

Research reveals the sycophantic nature of generative AI is inadvertently creating a form of distributed delusions.

When Ayana Lage got pregnant, she prepared for the worst. She’d struggled with mental health and knew depression could be ...

There has been a strident turn toward the social of late. In our everyday lives, confinement due to the pandemic has made our social appetites all the more acute. We have turned increasingly to social ...

Cameras that have been installed in their homes by the CIA, voices that whisper vicious words, and demons that appear in their bedroom at night. These are the delusions and hallucinations of psychosis ...

Terms such as delusions or conspiracy theories express a disapproving attitude. Suppose I am convinced that a celebrity I have never met is in love with me. My belief may be considered delusional. To ...

A new study provides a novel theory for how delusions arise and why they persist. NYU Langone Medical Center researcher Orrin Devinsky, MD, performed an in-depth analysis of patients with certain ...

Google's Gemini chatbot sent a man on delusional journeys before encouraging him to kill himself. Now his father is suing over the death.