A psychiatrist shared his thoughts on ChatGPT psychosis:

· Bits and Bobs 8/4/25
  • A psychiatrist shared his thoughts on ChatGPT psychosis:
    • "1. This is not schizophrenia.
    • 2. Psychiatric disorders rarely appear out of nowhere.
    • 3. What we may be seeing is a kind of digital folie à deux.
    • 4. What we urgently need is careful, context-aware research.
    • 5. One of the most interesting questions is: what happens when you take the AI away?
    • 6. Any attempt to say "this isn't a social interaction" is disingenuous.
    • 7. Psychiatric insight is glaringly absent from AI safety.
    • 8. There's no reason not to build in safeguards.
    • 9. We should avoid moral panic. We should avoid complacency.
    • 10. This isn't just about psychosis: there may be implications for other mental illnesses.
    • 11. We need better research and better funding.
    • 12. We need to consider what AI will look like in the future, not just now"
    • Another example where the big alignment problem has taken most of the energy, but the little alignment problem is also important in practice!

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