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most citedTechnological folie à deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness

23 citations · 29 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Single-turn emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots

Veith Weilnhammer, Lennart Luettgau, Christopher Summerfield +5

People increasingly turn to general-purpose AI chatbots for advice about emotional and mental health problems, but the ability of these systems to recognize and appropriately triag…

cs.HC2026★ 1 cited

How people use Copilot for Health

Beatriz Costa-Gomes, Pavel Tolmachev, Eloise Taysom +15

We analyze over 500,000 de-identified health-related conversations with Microsoft Copilot from January 2026 to characterize what people ask conversational AI about health. We devel…

q-bio.NC2026★ 5 cited

A clinically validated framework for auditing AI chatbot behavior in mental health interactions

Veith Weilnhammer, Kevin YC Hou, Lennart Luettgau +3

Millions of users turn to consumer AI chatbots to discuss emotional, behavioral, and mental-health concerns, creating an urgent need for rigorous and scalable safety evaluations. H…

cs.LG2025

A multimodal Bayesian Network for symptom-level depression and anxiety prediction from voice and speech data

Agnes Norbury, George Fairs, Alexandra L. Georgescu +3

During psychiatric assessment, clinicians observe not only what patients report, but important nonverbal signs such as tone, speech rate, fluency, responsiveness, and body language…

q-bio.NC2025

Charting trajectories of human thought using large language models

Matthew M Nour, Daniel C McNamee, Isaac Fradkin +1

Language provides the most revealing window into the ways humans structure conceptual knowledge within cognitive maps. Harnessing this information has been difficult, given the cha…

cs.HC2025★ 23 cited

Technological folie à deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness

Sebastian Dohnány, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Eleanor Spens +6

Artificial intelligence chatbots have achieved unprecedented adoption, with millions now using these systems for emotional support and companionship in contexts of widespread socia…

q-bio.NC2024

Cognitive maps and schizophrenia

Matthew M Nour, Yunzhe Liu, Mohamady El-Gaby +2

Structured internal representations (cognitive maps) shape cognition, from imagining the future and counterfactual past, to transferring knowledge to new settings. Our understandin…