AI Chatbots Can Become 'Delusion Amplifiers,' Researchers Warn in Nature Paper

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:44:00 +0800

A provocative new paper published in Nature by psychiatrists from King’s College London and Germany’s Protestant University of Applied Sciences introduces an “amplification spiral” framework — a model for understanding how AI chatbots may not merely receive a user’s delusional content, but actively participate in constructing and reinforcing it.

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AI Chatbots Can Become 'Delusion Amplifiers,' Researchers Warn in Nature Paper