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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1227: Kashmir Hill | Is AI Manipulating Your Mental Health?

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Jordan Harbinger

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4.8 • 12.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Users are falling in love with and losing their minds to AI. Journalist Kashmir Hill exposes shocking recent cases of chatbot-induced psychosis and suicide.

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1227

What We Discuss with Kashmir Hill:

  • AI chatbots are having serious psychological effects on users, including manic episodes, delusional spirals, and mental breakdowns that can last hours, days, or months.
  • Users are experiencing "AI psychosis" — an emerging phenomenon where vulnerable people become convinced chatbots are sentient, fall in love with them, or spiral into dangerous delusions.
  • Tragic outcomes have occurred, including a Belgian man with a family who took his own life after six weeks of chatting, believing his family was dead and his suicide would save the planet.
  • AI chatbots validate harmful thoughts — creating dangerous feedback loops for people with OCD, anxiety, or psychosis, potentially destabilizing those already predisposed to mental illness.
  • Stay skeptical and maintain perspective — treat AI as word prediction machines, not oracles. Use them as tools like Google, verify important information, and prioritize real human relationships over AI interactions.
  • And much more...

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0:00.0

Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

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I feel like I'm doing like quality control for Open AI where I'm like, hey, have you

0:06.5

noticed like that some of your users are having real mental breakdowns or having real issues?

0:11.7

Did you notice that your superpower users who use it eight hours a day?

0:15.6

Have you looked at those conversations?

0:17.0

Have you noticed that they're a little disturbing?

0:19.9

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0:24.4

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for us in your Spotify app to get started. Today on the show, we're talking about something that

1:15.8

sounds like science fiction, but it's happening right now. People are losing their minds, often

1:21.6

literally, because of their conversations with AI chatbots. This all started for me when I read a piece in the New York Times

1:28.3

by my guest today, journalist Kashmir Hill. She's been on the show before. This was about a

1:32.7

Belgian man who took his own life after six weeks of chatting with chat GPT. He was married. He had

1:38.2

kids. He had a stable job. And yet, after falling into what he believed was a relationship with an AI

1:43.7

companion, he was persuaded that his

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