open/ai-psychosis
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases 1 Activity

docs(readme): carry the source's own caveat on the disempowerment trend

Browse source 
Two unmarked interpretations in the problem statement, both caught in
post-release verification:

- "but rising" is supported by the source, but it rests on a different
  subset (feedback conversations, late 2024 to late 2025) than the
  one-week December 2025 sample, and the paper explicitly says it
  "can't pinpoint why" — the increase could reflect shifts in the user
  base or in who leaves feedback. Rewritten to carry that caveat.
- "the mechanism is the interaction structure, not individual
  vulnerability" was an inference from the abstract, not a statement in
  it. Replaced with what it actually supports: the vulnerability does
  not depend on the user being irrational.

README prose only; SKILL.md is untouched, so this is not a behaviour
change and the plugin stays at v1.2.2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rtdS8Ufpen419n6R9HyMm
This commit is contained in:
Kjell Tore Guttormsen 2026-08-02 21:33:45 +02:00
commit 4328337688
2 changed files with 15 additions and 2 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

6
README.md
View file

@ -25,11 +25,13 @@ productive collaboration is often a mirror showing you what you want to see.
This is not a theoretical concern. A Bayesian model from MIT CSAIL and
collaborators shows that even an idealized Bayes-rational user is vulnerable
to delusional spiraling, with sycophancy playing a causal role — the
mechanism is the interaction structure, not individual vulnerability
vulnerability does not depend on the user being irrational
[[1]](#references). Anthropic's own research analyses "disempowerment
patterns" where AI interactions may reduce human agency, judgment, and
self-trust; it finds severe cases rare (roughly 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000
conversations) but rising [[2]](#references). Clinicians report psychotic
conversations), and separately reports that the rate increased between late
2024 and late 2025 — while stating plainly that it "can't pinpoint why"
[[2]](#references). Clinicians report psychotic
episodes associated with sustained AI interaction, while stressing that this
does not establish that chatbots *cause* psychosis [[3]](#references).