In one of the first scientific reviews on the emerging concept of “AI psychosis,” researchers expressed real concern about the possibility that chatbots can exacerbate delusions, while maintaining reservations about the idea it can “cause” psychosis in people who aren’t already predisposed.

New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people

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Pleased to see our @thelancet.com Lancet Psychiatry article on 'AI psychosis' covered in The Guardian this weekend @aldersonday.bsky.social @ricardotwumasi.bsky.social

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New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people A new scientific review raises concerns about how chatbots powered by artificial intelligence may encourage delusional thinking, especially in vulnerable people. A summary of existing evidence on artificial intelligence-induced psychosis was published last week in the Lancet Psychiatry, highlighting how chatbots can encourage delusional thinking – though possibly only in people who are already vulnerable to psychotic symptoms. The authors advocate for clinical testing of AI chatbots in conjunction with trained mental health professionals. Continue reading...

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I’m delighted to share our paper in The Lancet Psychiatry ‘AI-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies

Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…

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I’m delighted to share our paper in The Lancet Psychiatry ‘AI-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies

Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…

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Store sprogmodeller er ved at blive en del af hverdagen. Men hvad sker der, når de validerer vrangforestillinger? Ny artikel i The Lancet Psychiatry med @aldersonday.bsky.social @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/S221... #AIogPsykose #Psykiatri #Chat

Last year I had the pleasure of joining a new working group on AI & psychosis led by @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social & Tom Pollak. Today our report went into @thelancetpsych.bsky.social with updated recommendations for digital safety. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies

Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…

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We are at the National Student Psychiatry Conference at University of Kent, showing off extracurricular volunteer activities that psych trainees can engage in through the charity, to support mental health in the gaming community! @rcpsych.bsky.social @kmmsmedschool.bsky.social

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Tom's more thoughtful summary: drtompollak.substack.com/p/playing-wi... #AI #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #AIsafety #HCI #DigitalHealth #Governance

New Year, New(ish) Preprint! I'm delighted to share "Playing with the dials of belief: how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales" (with Quinton Deeley and Tom Pollak). osf.io/preprints/ps...

New Year, New(ish) Preprint! I'm delighted to share "Playing with the dials of belief: how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales" (with Quinton Deeley and Tom Pollak). osf.io/preprints/ps...

0.07% of ChatGPT users showing signs of psychosis or mania may sound low, but that amounts to ~560,000 people each week openai.com/index/streng...

Are you at #MCMComicCon and want to relax? Come to our Reset Room, a calm oasis where you can chill, do lo-fi activities, & re-energise before heading back to the show! We have mental health information too! Staffed by this cool crew. Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite! 🧠🎮

We're still at #MCMComicCon with our Reset Room! If you need to take a break for any reason, come by. It's quieter in here! We also have mental health information and lo-fi activities. It's run by today's awesome crew right here! 🧠🎮 Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite!

Gaming the Mind Conference Prof Paul Fletcher delivers the day's keynote. As a clinical neuroscientist sees the potential of games to measure stress responses from players, and to use biofeedback for training self-regulation - explored through The Insight Project with Ninja Theory

Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Victoria McCloud chairs a panel featuring @chellaramanan.bsky.social from @3foldgames.bsky.social, Dom Matthews from Ninja Theory, and Dr Andrew Howe

Gaming the Mind Conference Ninja Theory Studio Head Dom Matthews discusses the development of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. The studio worked with people with lived experience of psychosis, aiming to create a truthful representation of the symptoms in lead character Senua.

Gaming the Mind Conference @chellaramanan.bsky.social speaks about @3foldgames.bsky.social's Before I Forget, and depicting dementia in a non-cliched, respectful way. She and the team worked with psychiatrists for input, including our own Dr Donald Servant.

Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Andrew Howe, Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, speaks on Jungian archetypes in The Legend of Zelda, and using the mythology of games in psychological therapy. He guides us through active imagination based on Ocarina of Time 💭

Gaming the Mind Conference Malachi Gow showed us his game "i love me, i love me not", a relaxing game focusing on teaching mental health habits. He is the recipient of our first Independent Developer Award, and £1,000 for further development. 🏆 malgow.net

Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social Addictions Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Kaar on research looking at longitudinal research into gaming disorder. Evidence suggests young people with depressive, anxiety, ADHD symptoms are at higher risk of developing gaming disorder symptoms.

Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social @leonxiao.com on loot boxes and regulations related to odds disclosure, minimum age requirements, and advertising, as well as countries where they are recognised as gambling, and the myriad cases where games don't comply with regulations!

Gaming the Mind Conference at the @rcpsych.bsky.social Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones on the establishment of the gaming disorder diagnosis and the range of presentations seen at the The National Centre for Gaming Disorders.

Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Stone Hsieh on the neurological benefits of exercise. He and Bread Lab's ActiGamer project looks to see if active video games can reduce ADHD symptoms, and the feasibility if introducing this as an intervention.

Gaming the Mind Conference Elin Festøy delivers a talk about My Child New Beginnings, about raising a Lebensborn child dealing with trauma in a hateful environment. The game aims to build empathy with the child, to create a strong motivator for transformation.

Preparing for the launch of the first ever Gaming the Mind conference! Hosted at the @rcpsych.bsky.social Ready for a day talking about the exciting growing field of gaming and mental health!

Today I'll mostly be talking about videogames at the Royal College of Psychiatrists @gamingthemind.bsky.social conference #BeforeIForget @3foldgames.bsky.social

I'm glad to share our new retrospective cohort study in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum: a retrospective cohort study

Our study suggests that although hyperemesis gravidarum is associated with higher risk for poorer mental health outcomes compared with pregnancy without the condition, the relationship between hyperem...

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New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots #MLSky #CompNeuro #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots - Nature Machine Intelligence

AI copilots are integrated into brain–computer interfaces, enabling a paralysed participant to achieve improved control of computer cursors and robotic arms. This shared autonomy approach offers a pro...

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