Hello and welcome to serious inquires only. This is episode 495. I'm your host Thomas Smith,

and I've got a really fascinating one for you today. Back after way too long is Dr. Alan Smurbeck,

also known as Stormy Decisus to his friends or to certain podcasts that he's been a patron of before.

Long story. Anyway, Dr. Smirbeck is a professor of psychology, and this one came up because we both

listened to the podcast citation needed and they talked about

the news stories and you've probably seen this coverage places of people being potentially

led into psychosis or delusions or something like that by chatbots by artificial intelligence.

And Stormy reached out with an offer to talk about these different psychological phenomena.

So what are delusions in a medical sense or a psychology sense? How is that different from like

schizophrenia, from psychosis? Can a chatbot lead you into any of those things? If so, how?

So we're going to learn about all that. And there's a ton that I do not know when it comes

to these things. And I always love learning new things. And also with the rise of AI and chat bots

and chat GPT and everything, it feels very relevant to find out how dangerous these things could be

and in what ways. So really excited to get on the line with Dr. Allen Spurbeck so we can get into all that.

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