New research warns conversational AI may reinforce false beliefs by validating and expanding users’ narratives, increasing risks of delusion and AI-induced psychosis.

The social brain hypothesis assumes the evolution of social behaviour changes animals' ecological environments, and predicts evolutionary shifts in social structure will be associated with changes in ...

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When generative AI systems produce false information, this is often framed as AI "hallucinating at us"—generating errors that we might mistakenly accept as true. But a new study argues we should pay ...

In the final article in this series, we move from unraveling cognition to mapping a new conceptual landscape. Over the course of four articles, I’ve examined the dismantling of cognition as a singular ...