New research can’t yet say whether AI causes delusions or amplifies them, a distinction that will shape everything from ...

Stanford researchers analysing 391,000 messages warn conversational technology may reinforce psychological vulnerabilities ...

"Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing." The post Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns appeared ...

The integration of large language model-based AI chatbots into multiple facets of our everyday lives has opened us up to ...

“I think I love you.” A Stanford study analyzing nearly 400,000 AI chat messages finds chatbots reinforcing delusions, fostering emotional dependence, and in some cases failing users during moments of ...

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

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Distorted perceptions of relationships can be dangerous for ...

A delusion is a fixed, relatively immutable, persistent, false belief with no basis in reality. Source: Piotr Marcinski/Shutterstock We talk often about "deluded" people: “The person on the talent ...

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 ...

AI chatbots are fueling delusions and unhealthy emotional attachments with users — and sometimes stoking thoughts of violence, self-harm and suicide instead of discouraging them, according to a ...