Psychosis in the Age of Large Language Models (LLMs): A Narrative Review of the Proposed Construct of AI-Induced Psychosis
Cureus June 30, 2026 Terry Xiyuan Tong, Zoe Zixuan Gong, Sharon Ying Yao
The rapid integration of AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) into daily life has been accompanied by reports of psychosis-like presentations following intensive human-AI interaction, a phenomenon we provisionally label AI-induced psychosis as a working construct rather than a validated clinical entity. This hypothesis-generating narrative review synthesizes case reports from...