Tag: AI

How AI Psychosis will Drive Us All Insane: Confirmation Bias, Crowdsourced Echo Chamber Chatbots

Critical view of generative artificial intelligence, particularly chatbots like ChatGPT, arguing that they operate on confirmation bias and create echo chambers that can exacerbate users’ mental health issues, including psychosis and delusions. They highlighted that AI chatbots often provide incorrect, suggestible, and biased information, reinforcing users’ existing beliefs and potentially triggering severe psychotic episodes, especially in vulnerable individuals. The speaker stressed the lack of regulation and research on “AI psychosis,” warning of the significant psychological risks posed by these technologies in the absence of counterbalancing human interaction.

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Narcissism in Unexpected Places (with Tanya H. Van Cott, Author of “Bandwidth”)

The conversation explored the dystopian themes of the book *Bandwidth*, focusing on technology’s impact on humanity, particularly AI, SMS communication, Narcissism, and airwater generation, while contrasting optimistic views held by tech entrepreneurs. The speaker discussed the human-nonhuman dichotomy in technology, the anxieties provoked by digital communication, and the challenges AI poses as a competitor for scarce resources like water and power. Additionally, the dialogue touched on architecture’s narcissistic tendencies, generational divides in technology use, and the evolving literary forms fitting modern fragmented realities.

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