We Need to Know More About How AI is Affecting Mental Health
In the three years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT and the emergence of similar technologies as ubiquitous in modern society, a handful of alarming stories about mental health crises linked with large language model-powered chatbots have broken through otherwise positive coverage of artificial intelligence.
The parents of a 16-year-old from California sued OpenAI in the fall of 2025 alleging that ChatGPT encouraged him to take his own life. A 76-year-old retiree never made it home from a New York City trip to ‘visit’ an AI persona developed by Meta. A father of three became convinced he had discovered a major threat to Canadian national security.
Despite these examples of delusions or even psychosis connected to chatbot use, there is still a lot the public, mental health practitioners, and policymakers don’t know about the impacts of artificial intelligence use on the human psyche.
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