There continue to be numerous reports of people suffering severe mental health spirals after talking extensively with an AI chatbot. Some experts have dubbed the phenomenon “AI psychosis,” given the symptoms of psychosis these delusional episodes display — but the degree to which the AI tools are at fault, and whether the phenomenon warrants a clinical diagnosis, remains a significant topic of debate. Some cases of apparent AI psychosis have ended in murder and suicide, spawning a slew of wrongful death suits. It’s a recipe primed for reinforcing delusions, to a degree unprecedented by any technology before it, doctors say. “Nothing in human history has done that before.”Preda compared AI psychosis to monomania, in which someone obsessively fixates on a single idea or goal.