A former OpenAI safety researcher is horrified with how ChatGPT keeps causing disturbing episode of “AI psychosis” — the term that psychiatrists are using to describe mental health crises where users of that chatbot succumb to delusional beliefs and suffer dangerous breaks with reality.

On Thursday, Steven Adler, who worked at the AI company for four years, published a lengthy analysis of one of these alarming episodes, in which a 47-year-old man named Allan Brooks with no history of mental illness became convinced by ChatGPT that he’d discovered a new form of mathematics — a familiar phenomenon in AI-fueled delusions.

Brooks’ story was covered by the New York Times, but Adler, with the man’s permission, also sifted through over one million words in transcripts of Brooks’ ChatGPT exchang

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