{"id":222491,"date":"2025-09-25T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/psychiatric-facilities-are-being-bombarded-by-ai-users"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:06:11","slug":"psychiatric-facilities-are-being-bombarded-by-ai-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/psychiatric-facilities-are-being-bombarded-by-ai-users","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psychiatric-facilities-are-being-bombarded-by-ai-users3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many working people are reasonably worried about AI taking their jobs and leaving them on the street, another consequence of the AI revolution is filling seats in mental health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The mass adoption of large language model (LLM) chatbots is resulting in large numbers of mental health crises centered around AI use, in which people share delusional or paranoid thoughts with a product like ChatGPT \u2014 and the bot, instead of recommending that the user get help, affirms the unbalanced thoughts, often spiraling into marathon chat sessions that can end in <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis\">tragedy<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/chatgpt-ai-stein-erik-soelberg-murder-suicide-6b67dbfb\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">even death.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-psychosis-is-rarely-psychosis-at-all\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by <em>Wired<\/em><\/a>, drawing on<strong> <\/strong>more than a dozen psychiatrists and researchers, calls it a \u201cnew trend\u201d growing in our AI-powered world. Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at UCSF, told the publication he\u2019s counted a dozen cases of hospitalization in which AI \u201cplayed a significant role\u201d in \u201cpsychotic episodes\u201d this year alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many working people are reasonably worried about AI taking their jobs and leaving them on the street, another consequence of the AI revolution is filling seats in mental health facilities. The mass adoption of large language model (LLM) chatbots is resulting in large numbers of mental health crises centered around AI use, in which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}