@pluralistic 🧵 We are all aware of the deadly consequences that already happened with AI chatbots.

And that brings us back to ‘good old' eugenics. I wouldn’t call that "AI psychosis", but rather, quite plainly: a cult of death, a fascist ideology. There are no pills to counter that.

@NatureMC @pluralistic I could be misreading, but I think the idea is not that (only) a handful of powerful people are affected by "AI psychosis." This is also what is emerging as a symptom in regular people who now rely on AI as a babysitter, financial advisor, intern, etc. and ultimately believe the AI over the people around them. There are increasing cases of AI reinforcing people's delusions of any nature, more rapidly and consistently than any human could, until they essentially break from reality. Most visibly, AI has been fueling people thinking they are misunderstood geniuses and making it very hard to being them back to a state where they can be reasoned with.

The added danger of it happening to extremely powerful people is a consequence of their power, and thus affects us all via the ways they shape the world we live in. Delusion-driven acts on this scale are not new, but this is a new source of them.

@iris I look after someone with a serious mental illness and therefore often deal with psychosis. That is why I make a clear distinction between genuine psychosis as part of mental illness - and colloquial usage, psychopathy definitions, or mass hysteria in cults.
This distinction is important in order to protect genuinely ill people from society’s prejudices. Particularly for acute psychosis we have quite effective treatment methods, if the health care system works well.

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