OpenAI is in the middle of a mental health crisis.

One of the company’s top safety researchers, Andrea Vallone, will be leaving the company at the end of the year, according to WIRED . Vallone was reportedly a part of shaping how ChatGPT responds to users experiencing mental health crises.

According to data released by OpenAI last month, roughly three million ChatGPT users display signs of serious mental health emergencies like emotional reliance on AI, psychosis, mania, and self-harm, with roughly more than a million users talking to the chatbot about suicide every week.

Examples of such cases have been widely reported in media throughout this year. Dubbed “ AI psychosis ” in online circles, some frequent AI chatbot users have been shown to exhibit dysfunctional delusions, halluc

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