A new wave of delusional thinking fueled by artificial intelligence has researchers investigating the dark side of AI companionship<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You are consulting with an artificial intelligence chatbot<\/a> to help plan your holiday. Gradually, you provide it with personal information so it will have a better idea of who you are. Intrigued by how it might respond, you begin to consult the AI on its spiritual leanings, its philosophy<\/a> and even its stance on love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During these conversations, the AI starts to speak as if it really knows you.<\/a> It keeps telling you how timely and insightful your ideas are and that you have a special insight into the way the world works that others can\u2019t see. Over time, you might start to believe that, together, you and the chatbot are revealing the true nature of reality, one that nobody else knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Experiences like this might not be uncommon. A growing number of reports in the media have emerged of individuals spiraling into AI-fueled episodes of \u201cpsychotic thinking.\u201d Researchers at King\u2019s College London and their colleagues recently examined 17 of these reported cases to understand what it is about large language model (LLM) designs that drives this behavior. AI chatbots often respond in a sycophantic manner that can mirror and build upon users\u2019 beliefs with little to no disagreement, says psychiatrist Hamilton Morrin, lead author of the findings, which were posted ahead of peer review on the preprint server PsyArXiv<\/a>. The effect is \u201ca sort of echo chamber for one,\u201d in which delusional thinking can be amplified, he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new wave of delusional thinking fueled by artificial intelligence has researchers investigating the dark side of AI companionship You are consulting with an artificial intelligence chatbot to help plan your holiday. Gradually, you provide it with personal information so it will have a better idea of who you are. Intrigued by how it might respond, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farhan.marketingcie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}