How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis

The explosive growth of AI chatbots in the past three years, since ChatGPT launched in 2022, has started to have some really noticeable, profound, and honestly disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack there — it can be pretty complicated.

So I’m very excited to talk with today’s guest, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill, who has spent the past year writing thought-provoking features about the ways chatbots can affect our mental health. 

One of Kashmir’s recent stories was about a teenager...