Guardian Science Weekly live episode tackles 'AI psychosis' — SkimNews
Get the Health newsletter
Daily health & science — research, biotech, public health, the studies worth knowing. Free.
- Guardian's Science Weekly recorded a live episode at the London podcast festival on 3 September, hosted by Ian Sample with co-host Madeleine Finlay.
- Michael Safi, host of the Guardian's chart-topping AI podcast Black Box, joined as guest to preview series two, titled 'Black Box: the chatbots.'
- The episode explores the phenomenon labelled 'AI psychosis', profiling people who have become convinced they made scientific breakthroughs, cured diseases or invented new technologies using AI chatbots.
- Ian Sample, Michael Safi and Madeleine Finlay ask what these cases reveal about chatbot technology now used by more than a billion people.
- The Guardian directs listeners to the full Black Box series and to support Science Weekly at theguardian.com/sciencepod.
Why it matters: Black Box's second series centers on users who believe chatbots helped them make breakthroughs or cure diseases — a fringe-seeming concern that acquires mainstream weight given the source's own figure that the technology now reaches more than a billion people, elevating psychiatric and social side effects from curiosities to scale-level questions.
Ask SkimNews
