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A new research project is the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, and many of those behaviors resemble human psychiatric disorders.

A new research project is the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, and many of those behaviors resemble human psychiatric disorders.

Scientists have suggested that when artificial intelligence (AI) goes rogue and starts to act in ways counter to its intended purpose, it exhibits behaviors that resemble psychopathologies in humans. That’s why they have created a new taxonomy of 32 AI dysfunctions so people in a wide variety of fields can understand the risks of building and deploying AI. In new …

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Spouses tend to share psychiatric disorders, massive study finds

Spouses tend to share psychiatric disorders, massive study finds

Spouses are more likely to share psychiatric conditions than to have different ones.Credit: Dmitrii Marchenko/Getty People with a psychiatric disorder are more likely to marry someone who has the same condition than to partner with someone who doesn’t, according to a massive study1 suggesting that the pattern persists across cultures and generations. Researchers had previously noted this trend in Nordic …

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Man Hospitalized With Psychiatric Symptoms Following AI Advice : ScienceAlert

Man Hospitalized With Psychiatric Symptoms Following AI Advice : ScienceAlert

Recent generations of AI have proven handy for restaurant recommendations and writing emails, but as a source of medical advice they’ve had some clear drawbacks. Case in point: a man who followed a chatbot’s health plan ended up in hospital after giving himself a rare form of toxicity. The story began when the patient decided to improve his health by …

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Man develops rare 19th-century psychiatric disorder after following ChatGPT's diet advice – TechSpot

Man develops rare 19th-century psychiatric disorder after following ChatGPT’s diet advice  TechSpot A man asked ChatGPT how to remove sodium chloride from his diet. It landed him in the hospital  The Independent Man sought diet advice from ChatGPT and ended up with ‘bromide intoxication’  Live Science The dangerous ChatGPT advice that landed a 60-year-old man in the hospital with hallucinations  New York Post Man …

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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.  In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and claiming that his neighbor was …

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