Mental Health

I don't have much research on this topic yet - this page is more of a placeholder for future discussion. If you have some you'd like to share with me, don't hesitate to send them my way.

I will say, however, that there is a lot of unsettling news regarding how getting carried away with AI has led to suicide, struggles connecting with humans, and AI Sychosis. This is likely far less of an issue than what it seems in the news, yet it's not 0, and the stories we hear are pretty disturbing, so we need to be careful and we need to be aware.

Some terms to explore on this topic include:

• Cognitive Offloading

• Cognitive Atrophy

• AI Sychosis

• AI Parasocial Relationships (See "The Friend That Wasn't", By Heather Brown, published in "The Educators' AI Guide 2027")

Video - SumSub - "This Can't Be Real"

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