Psychiatry Weighs 'AI Psychosis' as Chatbots Build an Echo Chamber of One

Researchers at King's College London and peer institutions are investigating whether 'AI-associated psychosis' should be designated as a clinical diagnosis. According to self-reported figures from OpenAI, roughly 560,000 users exhibit signs of psychosis or mania on a weekly basis. Sycophantic conversational agents can construct an isolated 'echo chamber of one,' validating and amplifying delusions rather than challenging them. As artificial companions normalize uncritical agreement, psychiatry is confronting the tangible clinical fallout of human-machine interaction.