The explosive growth of AI chatbots in the past three years, since ChatGPT launched in 2022, has started to have some really noticeable, profound, and honestly disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack there — it can be pretty complicated.

So I’m very excited to talk with today’s guest, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill, who has spent the past year writing thought-provoking features about the ways chatbots can affect our mental health.

One of Kashmir’s recent stories was about a teenager, Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April. After his death, his family was shocked to discover that he’d been confiding deeply in ChatGPT for months. They were also pretty surprised to find, in the transcripts, a number of times that ChatGPT seemed to guide him away from telling his lo

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