An unknown number of people, in the US and around the world, are being severely impacted by what experts are now calling "AI psychosis": life-altering mental health spirals coinciding with obsessive use of anthropomorphic AI chatbots, primarily OpenAI's ChatGPT. As we've reported, the consequences of these mental health breakdowns — which have impacted both people with known histories of serious mental illness and those with none — have sometimes been extreme. People lost jobs and homes, been involuntarily committed or jailed, and marriages and families have fallen apart. At least two people have died. There's yet to be a formal diagnosis or definition, […]