Characterizing the spiral: potential mechanisms in AI-associated delusions - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (opens in new tab)

AI-associated delusions represent an emerging phenomenon requiring mechanistic understanding. This review, after summarizing key contributions on AI-associated delusions, proposes the "amplification spiral" framework, wherein three empirically observed AI characteristics—linguistic alignment (mirroring user language), hyperpersonalized generation (creating personalized content), and sycophancy (validating without reality-testing)—may converge. Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusio...