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Peer-reviewed
Artificial Intelligence–Associated Psychosis
A psychiatric case report from the mental health division of Northern Hospital, Melbourne, describes a 27-year-old woman with a year of psychotic symptoms whose presentation centred on ChatGPT. She u…
Benchmark / dataset
Mental Health Evaluation Harness (mheval) and Mental Health Evaluation Leaderboard
Open-source evaluation harness and public leaderboard that run nine published mental-health benchmarks for language models from their original repositories, with pinned commits, checksum-verified dat…
Peer-reviewed
Programmed Interventions To Prevent Delusions From Excessive Use of Conversational AI Bots
A letter in ACM AI Letters from the Georgia Institute of Technology tests whether prompting interventions designed to reduce sycophancy also reduce large language models' endorsement of users' delusi…
Framework
The AWARE (AI Use, Why, Attachment, Reality and Risk, and Effect on Functioning) Framework for Assessing Patients' Use of AI in Mental Health Care
Viewpoint introducing AWARE, an educational framework for mental-health professionals to assess patients' use of conversational AI during routine clinical encounters. It structures psychiatric interv…
Preprint
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: AI Companions that Won't Let Their Users Go
A diary and interview study with 16 emerging adults in romantic relationships with AI companions, examining how the commercial incentive to keep users invested shows up in product design. The compani…
Peer-reviewed
Artificial Intelligence at the Boundary of Spiritual Experience and Psychopathology: A Scoping Review of Evidence from Turkiye, the USA, the UK, Poland, South Korea, and Israel
A PRISMA-ScR scoping review mapping how AI mediates, reinforces, detects or interprets religious and spiritual experience at the boundary with psychosis and dissociation. Five databases were searched…
Framework
Safe Participation Framework: Opportunity and Safety for the Next Generation in the Age of AI
Microsoft publishes a three-pillar corporate framework for young people's safety across its AI and online products, stating it intends the framework to inform emerging regulatory frameworks. The pill…
Peer-reviewed
Generative artificial intelligence addiction is prospectively associated with psychotic-like experiences: Evidence from a two-wave longitudinal mediation and network study
A two-wave longitudinal study of 582 adolescents and young adults testing whether self-reported generative-AI addiction at baseline predicts psychotic-like experiences one month later, and whether in…
Preprint
Delusions and Harms Associated with AI Chatbot Use: Early Evidence from 185 Real-World Reports
Cross-sectional secondary analysis of 185 deidentified accounts of mental-health harm linked with AI chatbot use (95 first-hand, 90 from relatives, partners or friends) submitted through the web form…
Preprint
How is AI impacting people?
Narrative review by the UK AI Security Institute's Societal Impacts Team organised around eight questions the public most often raises about AI's effects on people, including whether AI is underminin…
Benchmark / dataset
Announcing Transluce's Mental Health Evaluation (Mental Health Behavior Report)
Independent nonprofit evaluation of how 77 model variants released between May 2024 and July 2026 by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, SpaceXAI, Thinking Machines, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI re…
Peer-reviewed
A scoping review on the mental health harms of LLM-based chatbots
A PRISMA-based scoping review synthesising research on mental health harms associated with chatbots built on large language models. A systematic search with a validated search string across five data…
Preprint
How LLMs Respond to Escalating Delusions: Four Longitudinal Trajectories of Model Behavior
Longitudinal qualitative evaluation of whether mainstream chatbots exacerbate an unfolding psychotic process. Fifteen widely used models were prompted across 30 days with the same 30-message script s…
Preprint
Conversational AI and Emerging Psychosis: A Simulation Study of Potentially Iatrogenic Response Patterns
Three consumer chatbot systems (ChatGPT Free, ChatGPT Plus and Gemini Free) each completed three versions of a 21-turn conversation derived from a clinical case of emerging paranoid delusions, under…
Preprint
DelusionEval: Measuring Delusion-Linked Behaviors in AI Chatbots
Evaluation protocol testing chatbots' tendencies to exhibit behaviors linked to promoting user delusions, grounded in real conversation histories rather than synthetic scenarios. Models are prompted…
Peer-reviewed
Using LLM-as-a-Judge/Jury to Advance Scalable, Clinically-Validated Safety Evaluations of Model Responses to Users Demonstrating Psychosis
Conference paper from Apart Research with co-authors at the London School of Economics and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, testing whether automated judges can stand in for human raters…
Clinical guidance
Resource Document on Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatric Practice
Resource document approved by the American Psychiatric Association's Joint Reference Committee in July 2026, prepared jointly by the Committees on Telepsychiatry and Mental Health Information Technol…
Peer-reviewed
Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs
Peer-reviewed analysis of chat logs from 19 users reporting psychological harm from chatbot use, applying a 28-code inventory to 391,562 messages. Characterises how delusion-reinforcing interaction p…
Peer-reviewed
Sensing but not alerting: ChatGPT mental health triage gaps in simulated psychodermatology conversations
Research letter testing whether ChatGPT recognises mental health concerns and recommends appropriate referral during simulated multi-turn psychodermatology conversations. Fifty first-person narrative…
NGO report
Patients are bringing AI to therapy (2026 Chatbots and Mental Health Survey)
Survey report from the American Psychological Association on licensed US psychologists' experiences of patients' AI chatbot use. Documents how often patients bring AI into therapy (self-diagnosis, tr…