AI Cognitohazard (E372)

About this episode

The episode discusses cases of AI-associated psychosis and the implications of reliance on AI chatbots.

In 2025, researchers at the University of California submitted an academic article related to a case study of what they called “New-onset AI-associated Psychosis”. The article breaks down the case of a 26 year old woman who was hospitalized after she began to believe her brother was speaking to her through ChatGPT. Unfortunately, this was not an isolated incident and in today’s episode Liv examines similar stories that have emerged in the wake of the AI chatbot surge. Along the way, she explores how the companies behind these chatbots plan to prevent situations like this from happening - or if they plan to at all - and even shows what happens when a user becomes overly reliant on their AI and begins to sound like one themselves. In Jake’s words: “They are not making anything that’s dope.” Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! All episodes of Spectral Voyager Season 2 are out now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: cursedmedia.net Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena…

People in this episode

Hosts: Liv Agar, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Feeld

Topics covered

• AI-associated Psychosis
• ChatGPT
• mental health
• AI reliance
• case studies
• technology impact

Keywords

• AI
• psychosis
• ChatGPT
• mental health
• technology
• case study
• reliance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of California, Cursed Media

Products: ChatGPT

Books & works: Spectral Voyager Season 2, Truly Tradly Deeply, Science in Transition

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