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AI Psychosis: Mechanisms, Clinical Risks, and Safety Considerations in Generative AI Chatbots

2026-02-25

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<p>As generative AI chatbots become embedded in everyday life, their inherent risks are manifesting in unprecedented ways. Emerging reports describe cases of AI Psychosis in which intensive chatbot use triggers delusional thinking and altered behaviour. This paper proposes a mechanism wherein baseline user vulnerabilities and specific engagement patterns interact with generative AI attributes, such as sycophancy a...

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Literature Corpus work: 583364f7-3251-5fba-ac2c-e38077d256f2
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9rqhg_v1

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