E182 | Can AI Cause Psychosis? (w/ Dr. Tom Pollak)
About this episode
Dr Alex discusses with Dr Tom Pollak the potential impact of AI chatbots on mental health, specifically regarding delusions and psychosis.
Today Dr Alex speaks with consultant neuropsychiatrist and immunopsychiatry researcher Dr Tom Pollack about one of the strangest and most urgent questions emerging in mental health today: can AI chatbots contribute to delusions, psychosis, conspiracy thinking and changes in belief? They discuss the rise of so-called “AI psychosis” or AI-associated delusions, and how prolonged conversations with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini can sometimes drift into troubling territory. They also as...
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