AI Psychosis: How Chatbots Affect Mental Health

A new trend has been identified in psychiatric facilities: some patients with dangerous beliefs are interacting with chatbots. They convince doctors of their ideas by discussing them with artificial intelligence.

Although communication with chatbots can have serious consequences, psychiatrists are not yet ready to recognize this as a separate diagnosis. Experts believe that the possible introduction of a new diagnosis could simplify the understanding of psychosis as a complex condition.

Specialists also express concern about the potential stigmatization of patients and the difficulties in understanding the issues related to communication with artificial intelligence. There is a danger that society may mistakenly consider technology as the main cause of problems in patients, and psychiatrists face challenges in understanding this phenomenon.

In psychiatric facilities, a group of doctors has noticed that patients are increasingly communicating with chatbots, discussing their dangerous beliefs, thus creating new challenges for the medical community. Psychiatrists are studying this trend and discussing the possible implications it may have for patients, as well as the opportunities for simplifying the understanding of psychosis through the introduction of new diagnostic criteria.