Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs

ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned.

Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people.

A psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist interacted with ChatGPT-5 as if they had a number of mental health conditions. The chatbot affirmed, enabled and failed to challenge delusional beliefs such as being “the next Einstein”, being able to walk through cars or “purifying my wife through flame”.

  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    It’s pretty easy to understand that that is what I meant. If society is punishing you more for the latter than the former then we are already too far gone.

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      46 minutes ago

      The stigma is the same for both (more or less). It’s easier to escape punishment, as you say, with the AI. There’s more risk with appointments. Tbh, you are missing the point entirely.