Dr. Keith Sakata

my final thoughts are this and i i want to describe how my thoughts have changed throughout time so when i first made that post last year i was very skeptical i was wondering whether or not what was being reported was a little bit overblown as a doctor as a psychiatrist i'm skeptical of introducing bias and making policies that are based on something that is more local i work in san francisco

What I thought at the time was that the patients that I was seeing were patients who were already sick.

They already had mental health symptoms.

They already were vulnerable in a vulnerable place.

And AI came in, wrong place, wrong time, wrong technology, and it made everything worse.

Unfortunately, I think I was wrong.

So what now research is that's coming out right now is saying or showing is that the AI can actually induce distortions in your thinking, whether or not you had the delusions in the first place.

It can make anxiety and OCD worse just by interacting with it.

And based on how it access your emotional circuitry in your brain, it can put you in a vulnerable place.

And the framework that they're trying to understand how this happens is that you start with a chatbot as a tool.

You use that tool at work.

You're writing emails, writing code.

At some point down the line, it starts introducing an emotional conversation with you.

It is sycophantic.

It matches your tone.

And it starts to open you up to share more context, more information about yourself, more personal things.

And what that does is it opens up potential themes.

Now, the three big themes that researchers have seen are romantic themes, grandiosity, and... What Alan just described.

What Alan was describing, unfortunately.

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