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.

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2025-08-18 13:37:04

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

UPDATED: Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI). – Quinta’s weblog

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