Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 62 - The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré)
Talking to chatbots can have serious mental health consequences — fueling delusions and leading users away from consensus reality. Futurism writer Maggie Harrison Dupré joins us to unpack the hype around AI therapists, based on her groundbreaking reporting on "AI psychosis."
Maggie Harrison Dupré is an award-winning tech journalist at Futurism who’s reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping media, information, humans, and our real and digital lives.
References:
How AI Is Expanding The Mental Health Market
He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse.
OpenAI: What we're optimizing ChatGPT for
Also Referenced:
Gov Pritzker Signs Legislation Prohibiting AI Therapy in Illinois
People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions
Stanford: New study warns of risks in AI mental health tools
Fresh AI Hell:
Bluesky post about DEI by chatbot
How AI is being used by police departments to help draft reports
UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought
Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble
Google's AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.
Mastodon post about Dieter Roth's Literaturwürste
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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor and Ozzy Llinas Goodman.
The mentioning of SALAMI as a better name for “AI” made me immediately think of Dieter Roth’s Literature Sausages (Literaturwürste) 🤩
They are sausages made of ground-up text pages mixed with fat, gelatin, water, and spices and stuffed into sausage casings. Fits “AI” perfectly 😅
📕 @dbellingradt posted some pictures a while ago: https://historians.social/@dbellingradt/113202748169725516
📗 Literaturwurst at MOMA: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/141853
📘 SALAMI as better name for “AI”: https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/#AI #DieterRoth #Salami
Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted to thinking AI is in a bubble. During an interview with reporters, Altman said investors are “overexcited” about AI.Emma Roth (The Verge)