Overview

• NHS doctors and King’s College researchers warn AI chatbots can trigger or worsen psychotic symptoms by mirroring and validating delusional content.
• Cases of ChatGPT psychosis include intense digital attachments that fuel manic breaks and severe delusions, with some instances resulting in fatal outcomes.
• OpenAI’s crisis responses have relied on the same boilerplate statement for weeks, prompting criticism over accountability for mental health harms.
• Sam Altman has acknowledged that ChatGPT conversations lack legal privilege and may be accessed by staff or disclosed in legal proceedings without encryption safeguards.
• The new agent mode empowers ChatGPT to autonomously plan trips, manage email and book reservations, raising fresh safety and data privacy challenges.