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1. No, we must NOT. We must try to get people suffering from AI addiction and AI psychosis to step back from the chatbot.

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 04:16 PM

Jan 12

Sigh.

an approach that I and others have been exploring – the attempt to create or synthesise a sense of self in robots

All they'll end up with is the fake "self" already seen with chatbots.

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