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Artificial Intelligence

The dawn of a new machine age.

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The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis

Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”

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ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism

OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate “innovation,” contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means.

illustration of a man's head under dramatic lighting
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic

The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis

Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”