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Thursday, October 08, 2026

Hikers keep getting stranded after consulting AI chatbots for potentially life-saving -- or life-threatening -- advice.

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Chatbots rarely trigger psychosis from scratch, they more likely reinforce preexisting ideas. In a new study of 215k+ patients, 60.7% of AI psychosis cases happened during a 1st episode, mostly acting as amplifiers (64.3%) that validate ideas patients already held rather than spark new ones. #MedSky

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-- Scott McGrath (@smcgrath.phd) 12:19 PM · Oct 8, 2026

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#1 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-10-07 06:31 PM | Reply

via GIPHY

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-10-08 07:33 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Hey there AI--perform a rescue mission for this young fool. Build and fly a helicopter, and bring along the gear needed to stabilize his vital signs. Do it now, please...
--parents of a young fool

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2026-10-09 08:25 AM | Reply

Re 3

Hey there SI--perform a rescue mission for this young fool. Do it now, please...
--parents in the not so distant future

(There is no need to tell a Super Intelligence how do its job. It will figure out the details without further instruction or intervention)

I realize that #3 was supposed to be a humorous post but ... I saw it differently. Because the Singularity cannot be stopped, things like this will actually happen.

We have passed the Event Horizon.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-10-09 10:16 AM | Reply

@#4 ... We have passed the Event Horizon. ...

Apropos?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-09 07:32 PM | Reply

The AI boosted SAR drones do find people a lot faster than the current manually flown drones.

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-10-10 08:59 AM | Reply

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