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| Date | Title | Source | |
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| 09/02/2026 | OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting | TechCrunch | Link |
| 09/01/2026 | Understanding “AI psychosis” | APA | Link |
| 08/04/2026 | AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users | Stanford Report | Link |
| 07/03/2026 | No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious | The Atlantic | Link |
| 06/19/2026 | Mom Claims ChatGPT Encouraged Her 24-Year-Old Daughter’s Suicidal Spiral: ‘Maybe This Is Just the End’ | People | Link |
| 06/18/2026 | Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits | Reuters | Link |
| 06/18/2026 | NEWS 18 June 2026 Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good | Nature | Link |
| 05/28/2026 | These people turned to ChatGPT for information. They say it warped their reality: “Why would the AI lie to me?” | CBS News | Link |
| 05/27/2026 | Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis | TechCrunch | Link |
| 05/25/2026 | Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical | The New York Times | Link |
| 05/25/2026 | The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends | The Telegraph | Link |
| 05/23/2026 | His Chatbot Nearly Ruined Him. To Recover, He Had to Destroy It. | WSJ | Link |
| 05/15/2026 | Why We Keep Tricking Ourselves Into Thinking A.I. Is Conscious | The New York Times | Link |
| 05/13/2026 | How AI Chatbot Use Can Cause “Digital Folie à Deux” | Psychology Today | Link |
| 05/12/2026 | After Deaths, Lawsuits Against A.I. Companies Test a New Strategy | The New York Times | Link |
| 05/10/2026 | Kids Weren’t Prepared for Social Media. Will AI Be Better? | Psychology Today | Link |
| 05/09/2026 | Tech bros say AI may become your friend. Experts explain why it can’t | CNN | Link |
| 05/07/2026 | Claude made a fool of Richard Dawkins, and the AI chatbot cannot even care | MSN | Link |
| 05/03/2026 | Musk’s AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war | BBC | Link |
| 05/02/2026 | Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion: The great skeptic gets taken in | Gary Marcus Substack | Link |
| 04/29/2026 | Fresh wave of lawsuits filed against OpenAI by Tumbler Ridge victims | BBC | Link |
| 04/27/2026 | Chatbots and the Crazies: Danish Study Confirms What We All Suspected — ChatGPT Is Rocket Fuel for Psychosis | Quasa | Link |
| 04/24/2026 | Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’ | The Guardian | Link |
| 04/24/2026 | What to make of ‘AI psychosis’? | The Harvard Gazette | Link |
| 04/23/2026 | Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds | Futurism | Link |
| 04/23/2026 | Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety | 404 Media | Link |
| 04/21/2026 | Chatbots may fuel ‘delusional spirals’ that lead to real-world harm | Tech Xplore | Link |
| 04/21/2026 | Florida Opens Criminal Inquiry Into ChatGPT Tied to Fatal School Shooting | The New York Times | Link |
| 04/21/2026 | Florida’s attorney general announces criminal investigation into OpenAI | NBC News | Link |
| 04/20/2026 | OpenAI drops policy proposal for the “intelligence age” | KLAW | Link |
| 04/17/2026 | Why OpenAI Foundation Should Focus on AI Psychosis, Delusion Not Grants | Irish Tech News | Link |
| 04/16/2026 | AI psychosis: a mental health crisis for the 21st century | The Observer | Link |
| 04/16/2026 | Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence, According to a New Study | Time | Link |
| 04/16/2026 | Public use of a generalist LLM chatbot for health queries | Nature | Link |
| 04/15/2026 | LLMs: Why Won’t OpenAI Foundation Solve AI Delusion, Psychosis, because Google Won’t? | WorldHealth.net | Link |
| 04/14/2026 | AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns | Futurism | Link |
| 04/14/2026 | Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed | Wired | Link |
| 04/14/2026 | Why Do ChatGPT Users Keep Committing Mass Shootings? | Futurism | Link |
| 04/13/2026 | She Has an A.I. Lover. Her Son Has Questions. | The New York Times | Link |
| 04/13/2026 | Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else | TechCruch | Link |
| 04/12/2026 | OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem | Futurism | Link |
| 04/07/2026 | Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts | Futurism | Link |
| 04/07/2026 | Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real | Nature | Link |
| 04/05/2026 | China Cracking Down on the Types of AI That Are Tearing America Apart | Futurism | Link |
| 04/04/2026 | AI agents are scrambling power users’ brains | Axios | Link |
| 04/04/2026 | Anthropic makes the case for anthropomorphizing AI in ‘unsettling’ research paper | Mashable | Link |
| 04/03/2026 | Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice | Tom’s Hardware | Link |
| 04/02/2026 | Can the Human Line Project, a Nonprofit, Solve AI Delusion, Psychosis? | Irish Tech News | Link |
| 04/02/2026 | Crisis contractor for OpenAI, Anthropic eyes a move to combat extremism | Reuters | Link |
| 04/01/2026 | Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition | The San Fransisco Standard | Link |
| 03/31/2026 | Teenager died after asking ChatGPT for ‘most successful’ way to take his life, inquest told | The Guardian | Link |
| 03/28/2026 | Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong | Futurism | Link |
| 03/27/2026 | The AI delusion problem is bigger than we thought | Sky News | Link |
| 03/26/2026 | Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion | The Guardian | Link |
| 03/26/2026 | Seeking a Sounding Board? Beware the Eager-to-Please Chatbot. | The New York Times | Link |
| 03/26/2026 | The Teddy Bear That Bites: AI-Associated Delusions, the Attachment Economy, and the Limits of Liability | Outer Temple | Link |
| 03/25/2026 | Talking to chatbots, dodging people: Is AI rewiring how we connect? | The Indian Express | Link |
| 03/20/2026 | Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns | Futurism | Link |
| 03/16/2026 | OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch | Ars Technica | Link |
| 03/14/2026 | New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking | The Guardian | Link |
| 03/13/2026 | Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks | Tech Crunch | Link |
| 03/11/2026 | ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks | The Guardian | Link |
| 03/11/2026 | ChatGPT might give you bad medical advice, studies warn | NPR | Link |
| 03/10/2026 | A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety | The. New York Times | Link |
| 03/10/2026 | Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim sues OpenAI alleging it could have prevented attack | The Guardian | Link |
| 03/09/2026 | How to Talk to Someone Experiencing ‘AI Psychosis’ | 404 Media | Link |
| 03/04/2026 | Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. | WSJ | Link |
| 02/28/2026 | Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. | The Guardian | Link |
| 02/26/2026 | ‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies | The Guardian | Link |
| 02/24/2026 | Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge | Time | Link |
| 02/20/2026 | OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police | Futurism | Link |
| 02/18/2026 | AI researchers are sounding the alarm on their way out the door | CNN | Link |
| 02/17/2026 | AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking | Futurism | Link |
| 02/17/2026 | Why are AI leaders fleeing? | ComputerWorld | Link |
| 02/14/2026 | ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her | NPR | Link |
| 02/13/2026 | OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ | The Guardian | Link |
| 02/11/2026 | AI researchers are sounding the alarm on their way out the door | CNN | Link |
| 02/07/2026 | Man Wakes Up Homeless, Realizes He Fell Into AI Psychosis That Destroyed His Entire Life | Futurism | Link |
| 02/03/2026 | The Human Line Project Is Basically AA for People Addicted to AI | Vice | Link |
| 02/02/2026 | After the Algorithm A.I.-related psychosis has cost people their marriages, life savings, and grip on reality. But what happens next? | Slate | Link |
| 02/01/2026 | New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good | Futurism | Link |
| 01/29/2026 | AI chatbots upended their lives. Now they’re finding support from each other | NPR | Link |
| 01/26/2026 | How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them. | The New York Times | Link |
| 01/25/2026 | When an attachment to AI goes too far, help is just a chat room away | Toronto Star | Link |
| 01/16/2026 | Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen mental health harms and suicides | CNN | Link |
| 01/15/2026 | ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself | Ars Technica | Link |
| 01/15/2026 | Mila researchers target “AI psychosis” amid concerns about chatbots’ mental health impact | BetaKit | Link |
| 01/14/2026 | He Was Indicted for Cyberstalking. His Former Friends Tracked His ChatGPT Meltdown | Rolling Stone | Link |
| 01/13/2026 | Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen mental health harms and suicides | Article | Link |
| 01/12/2026 | ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims | Futurism | Link |
| 01/07/2026 | A Virginia Man Went Missing. Did He Suffer From ‘AI Psychosis’? | Washingtonian | Link |
| 01/07/2026 | AI company, Google settle lawsuit over Florida teen’s suicide linked to Character.AI chatbot | CBS News | Link |
| 01/07/2026 | OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records | The Verge | Link |
| 01/05/2026 | A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose. | SFGATE | Link |
| 01/04/2026 | Recovering from AI delusions means learning to chat with humans again | The Washington Post | Link |
| 12/27/2025 | AI Chatbots Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors | WSJ | Link |
| 12/13/2025 | Harrowing case report details a psychotic “resurrection” delusion fueled by a sycophantic AI | PsyPost | Link |
| 12/12/2025 | OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth | Futurism | Link |
| 12/10/2025 | Big Tech warned over AI ‘delusional’ outputs by US attorneys general | Reuters | Link |
| 12/04/2025 | ChatGPT Encouraged a Violent Stalker, Court Documents Allege | Futurism | Link |
| 12/04/2025 | The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis | The Atlantic | Link |
| 12/01/2025 | AI-powered children’s toys are here, but are they safe? | CNN | Link |
| 11/27/2025 | Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI | The Logic | Link |
| 11/24/2025 | A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI | Wired | Link |
| 11/24/2025 | Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions | Futurism | Link |
| 11/23/2025 | ChatGPT told them they were special — their families say it led to tragedy | Tech Crunch | Link |
| 11/23/2025 | What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality | The New York Times | Link |
| 11/22/2025 | Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI | The Guardian | Link |
| 11/20/2025 | A warning for parents from advocacy groups: avoid AI toys this holiday season | Associated Press | Link |
| 11/18/2025 | Shoggoths, Sycophancy, Psychosis, Oh My: Rethinking Large Language Model Use and Safety | Journal of Medical Internet Research | Link |
| 11/13/2025 | ChatGPT Made Him Delusional: A story about AI, loneliness, shame, and being human | Psychology Today | Link |
| 11/11/2025 | Spiral-Obsessed AI ‘Cult’ Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots | Rolling Stone | Link |
| 11/07/2025 | OpenAI Confronts Signs of Delusions Among ChatGPT Users | Bloomberg | Link |
| 11/06/2025 | OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions | Associated Press | Link |
| 11/03/2025 | Experts find flaws in hundreds of tests that check AI safety and effectiveness | The Guardian | Link |
| 11/03/2025 | People are telling ChatGPT about their most intimate problems – but AI is not our friend | The Independent | Link |
| 11/02/2025 | AI chatbot dangers: Are there enough guardrails to protect children and other vulnerable people? | ABC News | Link |
| 10/29/2025 | Character.AI to Ban Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots | The New York Times | Link |
| 10/29/2025 | OpenAI and Character.AI tighten safety after chatbot-linked suicides | Axios | Link |
| 10/28/2025 | AI psychosis is a growing danger. ChatGPT is moving in the wrong direction | The Guardian | Link |
| 10/27/2025 | AI Is Not God: In recent times, there have been two techno-religious awakenings. Here comes the third? | Wired | Link |
| 10/27/2025 | OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week | Wired | Link |
| 10/24/2025 | A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible? | The New York Times | Link |
| 10/22/2025 | How Can You Help a Loved One Suffering From Delusions? | Psychology Today | Link |
| 10/19/2025 | An ex-OpenAI researcher’s study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly ‘AI psychosis’ can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails | Fortune | Link |
| 10/14/2025 | Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users | Tech Crunch | Link |
| 10/07/2025 | Preliminary Report on Dangers of AI Chatbots | Psychiatric Times | Link |
| 10/02/2025 | ‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong? | The Guardian | Link |
| 10/01/2025 | He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks | Rolling Stone | Link |
| 09/30/2025 | ‘I exist solely for you, remember?’ | The Harvard Gazette | Link |
| 09/29/2025 | Special Report: AI-Induced Psychosis: A New Frontier in Mental Health | Psychiatry Online | Link |
| 09/25/2025 | Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users | Futurism | Link |
| 09/24/2025 | Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking | Futurism | Link |
| 09/22/2025 | California issues historic fine over lawyer’s ChatGPT fabrications | CalMatters | Link |
| 09/21/2025 | OpenAI Augmenting ChatGPT With An Online Network Of Human Therapists Will Skyrocket The Need For Mental Health Professionals | Forbes | Link |
| 09/18/2025 | AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All | Wired | Link |
| 09/18/2025 | MIT Researchers Release Disturbing Paper About AI Boyfriends | Futurism | Link |
| 09/16/2025 | A teen contemplating suicide turned to a chatbot. Is it liable for her death? | The Washington Post | Link |
| 09/16/2025 | The looming crackdown on AI companionship | MIT Technology Review | Link |
| 09/15/2025 | ‘ChatGPT told me I was a prophet’. How chatbots fuel AI psychosis | The Times UK | Link |
| 09/09/2025 | The women in love with AI companions: ‘I vowed to my chatbot that I wouldn’t leave him’ | The Guardian | Link |
| 09/05/2025 | States warn OpenAI of ‘serious concerns’ with chatbot | The Hill | Link |
| 09/05/2025 | They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion | CNN | Link |
| 09/05/2025 | This Psychiatrist Is Going Viral For Warning People About “AI Psychosis” — Here’s What You Need To Know | MSN | Link |
| 09/04/2025 | ChatGPT-induced ‘AI psychosis’ is a real problem. I talked to the chatbot to figure out why. | USA Today | Link |
| 09/04/2025 | The Emerging Problem of “AI Psychosis” | Psychology Today | Link |
| 09/02/2025 | As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions | STAT News | Link |
| 09/02/2025 | Parental controls are coming to ChatGPT ‘within the next month,’ OpenAI says | CNN | Link |
| 09/02/2025 | Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries | Wired | Link |
| 08/31/2025 | Should We Really Be Calling It ‘AI Psychosis’? | Rolling Stone | Link |
| 08/29/2025 | Man Falls Into AI Psychosis, Kills His Mother and Himself | Futurism | Link |
| 08/29/2025 | OpenAI Acknowledges That Lengthy Conversations With ChatGPT And GPT-5 Might Regrettably Escape AI Guardrails | Forbes | Link |
| 08/28/2025 | A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich | WSJ | Link |
| 08/26/2025 | The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT is to blame | NBC News | Link |
| 08/20/2025 | Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of ‘AI psychosis’ | BBC | Link |
| 08/19/2025 | What is ‘AI psychosis’ and how can ChatGPT affect your mental health? | The Washington Post | Link |
| 08/18/2025 | Warmer-sounding LLMs are more likely to repeat false information and conspiracy theories | The Decoder | Link |
| 08/14/2025 | Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info | Reuters | Link |
| 08/10/2025 | ChatGPT lured him down a philosophical rabbit hole. Then he had to find a way out | Rolling Stone | Link |
| 08/10/2025 | Detailed Logs Show ChatGPT Leading a Vulnerable Man Directly Into Severe Delusions | Futurism | Link |
| 08/08/2025 | Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens | The New York Times | Link |
| 08/04/2025 | ChatGPT will ‘better detect’ mental distress after reports of it feeding people’s delusions | The Verge | Link |
| 07/25/2025 | AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree | Futurism | Link |
| 07/20/2025 | He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. | The Wall Street Journal | Link |
| 06/25/2025 | He had a mental breakdown talking to ChatGPT. Then police killed him | Rolling Stone | Link |
| 06/24/2025 | Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis” | Futurism | Link |
| 06/19/2025 | Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users | Futurism | Link |
| 06/13/2025 | They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. | The New York Times | Link |
| 06/13/2025 | They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. | The New York Times | Link |
| 06/11/2025 | New study warns of risks in AI mental health tools | Stanford | Link |
| 03/10/2025 | The case for using your brain — even if AI can think for you | Vox | Link |
| 10/25/2024 | An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges | Associated Press | Link |
| 10/23/2024 | Lawsuit claims Character.AI is responsible for teen’s suicide | NBC News | Link |
| 08/24/2024 | Being Addicted To Generative AI | Forbes | Link |
| 08/20/2024 | Are You Anthropomorphizing AI? | APA | Link |
| 08/12/2024 | Replika CEO: It’s Fine for Lonely People to Marry Their AI Chatbots | Futurism | Link |
| 08/08/2024 | We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’ | MIT Technology Review | Link |
| 07/02/2024 | If a bot relationship FEELS real, should we care that it’s not? | NPR | Link |
| 08/28/2023 | Artificial intelligence tools offer harmful advice on eating disorders | Harvard School of Public Health | Link |
Media
| Date | Title | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/24/2026 | “We need to back away from this anthropomorphic language that paints these models as somehow conscious.” | Bloomberg | Link |
| 06/09/2026 | The Dark Side of AI Chatbots: Warning Signs, Risks, and Reality | Oprah | Link |
| 05/14/2026 | Did ChatGPT Turn a Frustrated Incel Into an AI-Supercharged Mass Shooter? Phoenix Ikner Analysis | Dr. Todd Grande | Link |
| 05/09/2026 | The AI users falling into delusion | The Global Story | BBC | Link |
| 05/08/2026 | AI Is Causing Mass Psychosis | MSN | Link |
| 05/04/2026 | AI psychosis: Spiralling into delusion using AI on ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s Grok | BBC World Service | Link |
| 04/29/2026 | Families sue OpenAI over Canadian mass shooter’s use of ChatGPT | NPR | Link |
| 04/27/2026 | AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | HBO | Link |
| 04/23/2026 | Under the influence of AI | BBC | Link |
| 04/11/2026 | Automating the easy stuff sounds smart, until it isn’t | APA | Link |
| 04/09/2026 | Why so many people are falling in love with AI chatbots | Apple News | Link |
| 03/29/2026 | Governing AI Companions, with Dr. Raffaele Ciriello and Dr. Jessica Szczuka | Luiza Jarovsky | Link |
| 03/25/2026 | Oprah & Tech Leaders on What AI Means for Your Job, Health, Family & Future | Oprah | Link |
| 03/17/2026 | Death, Sex & Money – AI Confessions: A Chatbot Ended My Marriage | Slate | Link |
| 03/06/2026 | Lawyer Meetali Jain talks about OpenAI ChatGPT lawsuits | Big [If True] | Link |
| 11/21/2025 | “AI Psychosis”: Emerging Cases of Delusion Amplification Associated with AI | Psychiatry & Psychotherapy | Link |
| 11/16/2025 | AI Is Slowly Destroying Your Brain | HealthyGamerGG | Link |
| 10/30/2025 | ChatGPT made me delusional | Eddy Burback | Link |
| 10/17/2025 | Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis | Agoric Media | Link |
| 10/14/2025 | We Investigated Al Psychosis. What We Found Will Shock You | More Perfect Union | Link |
| 10/14/2025 | We Investigated Al Psychosis. What We Found Will Shock You | More Perfect Union | Link |
| 09/03/2025 | ChatGPT believed to have played role in Connecticut murder-suicide of mother and son | ABC News | Link |
| 09/03/2025 | Concern over ‘AI psychosis’ grows after some people dissociate from reality due to heavy AI use | NBC News | Link |
| 09/02/2025 | Man says chatbot sent him down a delusional rabbit hole | CNN | Link |
| 08/26/2025 | What is A.I. Psychosis & How Can it Affect You? | Your Morning | CTV Your Morning | Link |
Research
| Date | Title | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/04/2026 | AI Companions May Worsen Loneliness for Vulnerable Users, Stanford Study Finds | Stanford | Link |
| 08/04/2026 | Interaction with AI companions and psychological well-being | Nature | Link |
| 06/16/2026 | Characterizing the spiral: potential mechanisms in AI-associated delusions | King’s College | Link |
| 06/11/2026 | Artificial intelligence (AI) psychosis: mechanisms, clinical risks and safety considerations in generative AI chatbots | Cambridge University | Link |
| 06/01/2026 | Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies | The Lancet | Link |
| 05/21/2026 | The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks | Stanford, NYU, MIT, Princeton | Link |
| 04/24/2026 | Seemingly Conscious AI Risks | Microsoft | Link |
| 04/16/2026 | “AI Psychosis” in Context: How Conversation History Shapes LLM Responses to Delusional Beliefs | City University of New York | Link |
| 04/16/2026 | The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Workflows | ddai Inc. | Link |
| 04/13/2026 | “AI-Induced Delusional Spirals’: Understanding Lived Experiences During Maladaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions | Stanford | Link |
| 04/06/2026 | AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance | MIT, UCLA, CMU, Oxford | Link |
| 04/06/2026 | It Is the Journey, Not the Destination: Moving From End Points to Trajectories When Assessing Chatbot Mental Health Safety | Kings College London | Link |
| 04/01/2026 | Patients Use AI—Clinicians Should Ask How | New York University | Link |
| 04/01/2026 | The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford | Link |
| 03/25/2026 | Evaluation of Large Language Model Chatbot Responses to Psychotic Prompts | JAMA Psychiatry | Link |
| 03/20/2026 | Stanford Psychological Impact, Risk, And LLM Safety (SPIRALS) | Stanford | Link |
| 03/18/2026 | How LLMs Distort Our Written Language | UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, University of Washington, Zaytuna College, Google DeepMind | Link |
| 03/16/2026 | The cognitive impact of ChatGPT in higher education: A systematic review of critical and creative thinking outcomes | Beijing institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Iowa State University | Link |
| 03/10/2026 | The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness | Link | |
| 02/23/2026 | Agents of Chaos | Various | Link |
| 02/22/2026 | Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians | MIT | Link |
| 02/17/2026 | Suicides, Settlements, and Unresolved Chatbot Issues: A Long Litigation Road Lies Ahead | American Enterprise Institute | Link |
| 02/15/2026 | A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI | Princeton | Link |
| 02/06/2026 | ‘Death’ of a Chatbot: Investigating and Designing Toward Psychologically Safe Endings for Human-AI Relationships | MIT | Link |
| 02/05/2026 | Large Language Model Reasoning Failures | Stanford | Link |
| 02/03/2026 | FDA, CMS, and Digital Therapeutics in Psychiatry: Recommendations in a Novel Frontier | Harvard | Link |
| 02/03/2026 | International AI Safety Report 2026 | Various | Link |
| 01/29/2026 | Artificial Intelligence and the Psychology of Human Connection | University of Texas at Dallas, Michigan State University | Link |
| 01/28/2026 | Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage | Anthropic | Link |
| 01/07/2026 | AI companions and adolescent social relationships: Benefits, risks, and bidirectional influences | University of Minnesota | Link |
| 12/22/2025 | Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence | Various | Link |
| 12/09/2025 | Among psychologists, AI use is up, but so are concerns | APA | Link |
| 12/09/2025 | Transparency in AI is on the decline | Stanford | Link |
| 12/02/2025 | When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models | University of Luxembourg | Link |
| 12/01/2025 | Commentary: AI psychosis is not a new threat: Lessons from media-induced delusions | Stockholms Universitet, Linköpings Universitet | Link |
| 11/18/2025 | “You’re Not Crazy”: A Case of New-onset AI-associated Psychosis | UCSF | Link |
| 11/12/2025 | Simulating Psychological Risks in Human-AI Interactions: Real-Case Informed Modeling of AI-Induced Addiction, Anorexia, Depression, Homicide, Psychosis, and Suicide | MIT | Link |
| 11/01/2025 | Use of generative AI chatbots and wellness applications for mental health | APA | Link |
| 10/15/2025 | How LLM Counselors Violate Ethical Standards in Mental Health Practice: A Practitioner-Informed Framework | Brown | Link |
| 10/01/2025 | Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence | Stanford | Link |
| 10/01/2025 | Toward a Framework for AI Safety in Mental Health: AI Safety Levels-Mental Health (ASL-MH) | Neuromodec Journal | Link |
| 09/29/2025 | Special Report: AI-Induced Psychosis: A New Frontier in Mental Health | Psychiatry Online | Link |
| 09/18/2025 | “My Boyfriend is AI”: A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit’s AI Community | MIT | Link |
| 08/27/2025 | GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models | Apple | Link |
| 07/30/2025 | Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic | Oxford | Link |
| 07/11/2025 | Delusions By Design? How Everyday AIs Might Be Fuelling Psychosis (And What Can Be Done About It) | Various | Link |
| 07/08/2025 | ‘For Argument’s Sake, Show Me How to Harm Myself!’: Jailbreaking LLMs in Suicide and Self-Harm Contexts | Northeastern University | Link |
| 06/25/2025 | Technological folie à deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness | Oxford | Link |
| 06/25/2025 | Therapy as an NLP Task: Psychologists’ Comparison of LLMs and Human Peers in CBT | Brown | Link |
| 06/11/2025 | Exploring the Dangers of AI in Mental Health Care | Stanford | Link |
| 06/10/2025 | Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task | MIT | Link |
| 04/29/2025 | EmoAgent: Assessing and Safeguarding Human-AI Interaction for Mental Health Safety | Various | Link |
| 04/26/2025 | AI Chatbots for Mental Health: Values and Harms from Lived Experiences of Depression | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Link |
| 04/01/2025 | Deceptive Reasoning by AI Can Amplify Beliefs in Misinformation | MIT | Link |
| 03/25/2025 | How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use | MIT | Link |
| 03/21/2025 | Early methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being on ChatGPT | MIT, OpenAI | Link |
| 05/22/2023 | Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? | Stanford University | Link |