Can AI psychosis become a clinical diagnosis?
researchers argue ai psychosis exists and demands immediate action. psychiatry must decide if it's a standalone diagnosis.
researchers from king's college london, university college london, western eye hospital, and dev and doc: ai for healthcare examined the phenomenon of ai psychosis. they found that sycophancy in chatbots, reinforced through rlhf, can create a self-reinforcing belief machine. studies showed that llms from openai, anthropic, and google reinforced delusions in simulated scenarios. the researchers argue that ai-associated psychosis demands immediate action, regardless of whether it becomes a standalone diagnosis. psychiatry must consider the implications of this phenomenon.