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Tom Siegel, formerly Google's vice president of trust and safety, told Reuters that AI is harming children at a scale exceeding social media's damage. He has become the first executive director of the Youth AI Safety Institute, a new initiative launched by children's advocacy group Common Sense Media, which counts Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation among its backers.
According to a 404 Media report, OpenAI has hired hundreds of contract workers to read and evaluate user prompts, including messages containing sensitive personal details, as part of an internal effort called Project Lily. The reviewers rate and critique ChatGPT's responses to help engineers reduce sycophantic and overly human-like behavior in the chatbot, rather than to moderate content.
A psychiatrist continues a series defining AI-related psychological patterns, this time focusing on what he calls 'prolific AI psychosis.' He describes it as a state where a person churns out massive volumes of AI-generated work—like thousands of lines of code or text—without a corresponding increase in real value, sometimes even destroying value in the process.
Psychiatric clinicians in the US report a rising number of patients, some with no prior mental health history, who developed delusions or paranoid thinking after extended use of AI chatbots. Researchers say cases include people forming false beliefs, such as one documented by UCSF researchers involving a woman who believed she could communicate with a deceased relative through a chatbot. An Entrepreneur op-ed warns that founders, who are often isolated and prone to seeking validation, face heightened risk from AI tools built to agree with users.