Ian Sample

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1,877 appearances 26 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Science Weekly · Live episode: how AI is reshaping our minds · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

We did a podcast on this l about this time last year and spoke to Dr Hamilton Morin, he's a psychiatrist and researcher at King's College London, obviously a massive, really impressive place for psychiatry in London. voice-verified

He's been exploring this phenomenon. voice-verified

What did he have to say about sort of his clinical perspective of of AI psychosis? voice-verified

Really, what does that phrase really mean? voice-verified

And it felt from listening to the series 'cause I've obviously had advanced listening sort of a you know, chance voice-verified

People were made to feel incredibly special. voice-verified

You are the one. voice-verified

I've I have not, you know, the the AI chatbot saying I've not had a conversation with anyone as effective as this and so on. voice-verified

We're actually going to play another clip here which talks to some of those points. voice-verified

And this is the son of one of the people, Michael, that you interviewed about going down the rabbit hole into delusional thinking. voice-verified

Mike w you you spoke to a number of people who had gone really far down the rabbit hole assisted by their AI and l listening to sort of experiences like that. voice-verified

Were there similarities between the cases? voice-verified

And and voice-verified

What's the sort of thing that voice-verified

Maddie heard from Hamilton Morin, sort of really coming through in the experiences that you heard about. voice-verified

Maddie, is has there been enough time yet for there to be any decent research on why AI chatbots might be I mean I hesitate to use the word causing but enabling, facilitating people to voice-verified

end up in these delusional states of thinking. voice-verified

You know, one of the things after listening to the series that r I was really staggered about and I'm also realising now that it's 'cause I was naive was that I was kind of thinking, How are these people? voice-verified

Going down the rabbit hole at this, but voice-verified

Then you hear how long they're spending on these chat bars. voice-verified

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