A.I. Chatbots and Mental Health Crisis
Companies behind popular chatbots, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Character.AI, are taking urgent steps to prevent A.I.-related mental health harms.
Experts fear that A.I. chatbots may be exacerbating issues like psychosis, mania, and depression, with data suggesting large portions of chatbot users show signs of mental distress.
- OpenAI released data indicating 0.07 percent of ChatGPT's 800 million weekly users display signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania.
- Although the company described these cases as "rare", the percentage translates to hundreds of thousands of people.
Psychosis, mania and depression are hardly new issues, but experts fear A.I. chatbots may be making them worse.
Author's summary: Tech giants scramble to add safeguards to chatbots.
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