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AI chatbot users report mental health issues

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published September 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM EDT
Illustration picture shows the ChatGPT artificial intelligence software, which generates human-like conversation. (Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images)
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Illustration picture shows the ChatGPT artificial intelligence software, which generates human-like conversation. (Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images)

More and more people are reporting that artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are triggering mental health issues, such as delusional thinking, psychotic episodes and even suicide.

O. Rose Broderick, who covers disability at STAT, spoke to doctors and researchers who are racing to understand this phenomenon.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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