In a jarring new analysis, psychiatric researchers found that a wide swath of mental health issues have been anecdotally associated with artificial intelligence usage — and that more than two dozen chatbots are implicated. Sifting through academic databases and news articles between November 2024 and July 2025, Duke psychiatry professor Allen Frances and Johns Hopkins cognitive science student Luciana Ramos discovered, as they wrote in a new report for the Psychiatric Times, that the mental health harms caused by AI chatbots might be worse than previously thought. Using search terms like "chatbot adverse events," "mental health harms from chatbots," and "AI […]