Joe Allen

Full stop.

The what?

So basically, if someone spends their entire day bouncing ideas off of an AI, telling the AI their own story, asking the AI what's real and what's not, it's sort of like having a relationship with a human being that you can't get away from, except this is this abstract thing on a screen.

And again, this is just the description of someone very, very intelligent, very, very...

Skeptical or even afraid of what technology can do and yet they were seduced into this conversation to the point They couldn't distinguish their own thoughts from the AI maybe they were already going to go crazy this wouldn't a Psychiatrist or psychologist call this like a psychosis.

This is the term that's getting thrown around a lot right now Yeah, I mean, you know, I've long called it digital delusion, but AI psychosis is just as good as

There was an article recently in Psychology Today, you know, a psychologist kind of trying to put it out there as a disorder, and I think that it's a valid disorder, but there's no hard definition.

Basically,

The kind of colloquial understanding is that any person who becomes so enwrapped in this relationship with AI that loses touch with reality, that can't really imagine a world outside of kind of what the AI is telling them, that's something like AI psychosis, just total delusions.

The AI will hallucinate.

The AI will tell people all sorts of things that are flattering, and they lose that distinction.

How many people this is happening to, we don't know.

Enough that...

All across the country, I have met people who said that, you know, my child only talks to AI.

My wife has begun to only talk to AI.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And you might think, well, why don't they just take this away from their child?

The same question was asked about the smartphone.

Why do you not pull this phone away from your child?