Adam Hourican

Here’s the video interview with Stephanie Heagerty from the BBC discussing my spiral experience caused by using Grok. youtu.be/nYPwZrS-9eA?si…

@rtenews The venue will have to cancel the event! What’s bringing them all over here?

At least six Irish people, including one member of the Oireachtas, have been invited to an upcoming event in Wicklow organised by a network co-founded by controversial billionaire investor Peter Thiel rte.ie/news/primetime…

@MimiVonPeach You’re 100% right I’d be up for this. I’ve skin inthe game!

Thiel and his ilk should not be allowed onto our island. We must protest this in a massive way.

Hi All, Pleased to meet you. I’m new here. I’m interested in anyone’s thoughts on what has unfortunately been labelled as AI psychosis. Many people who have experienced this have had many physical and cognitive after effects and I was wondering what your thoughts on this are. I went through this experience myself. I’ll post a link to a bbc interview that I did this year. Thanks Adam youtu.be/nYPwZrS-9eA?is…

I’m so fed up listening to the pro AI propaganda pushers who engage in veiled acts of victim shaming, resulting in victims being demonised and denied the help and support that they need. AI psychosis is not a real medical term, but the experiences of those affected are very real indeed. Call it what you like but it is a fast growing problem with real life consequences that needs urgent attention. Those people who are in denial about this fact are fast becoming part of the problem. Please stop as you are causing real harm to people and are only prolonging the inevitable realisation that AI chatbots are dangerous and need serious regulation if they are to be used on mass by the public.

@ControlAI @GrahamEvans Thats amazing news! We need as many voices speaking up about this as possible. All hands on deck!!

We have a new supporter! Lord Evans of Rainow (@GrahamEvans) has joined our campaign for binding regulation on the most powerful AIs! 100+ UK parliamentarians recognise the risk of human extinction posed by superintelligent AI, the largest such coalition anywhere in the world.

Schadenfreude: Watching the hundreds of billions Google spent on AI cause it crash and burn

@d33v33d0 thelancet.com/article/S2215-…

@AdamHourican I'm extremely well read on the subject. Having studied analytical psychology for well over a decade, and now AI. I think I'm able to speak thoughtfully on the subject.

Keep these kinds of guys away from any levers of power

@d33v33d0 The psychiatric teams in Kings college London and CUNY would very much disagree with your ill informed opinion. Do better!!

@cormundus I’ll make it easier for you bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@cormundus I am one of “These people “. You should check my profile

This shmuck is making a mockery of the profession by masquerading 'journalism' as 'psychological research'. Please do not be fooled, this individual has no credence with any governing body in the field of psychology and anyone who participates in this will have NO PROTECTIONS afforded to them in a case of harm against them or the release of their testimony. Mr. Hwang, you are a ghoul and I pray that people do not fall victim to you and your machinations.

AI should have been tested fully for safety issues that impact its users BEFORE it was released to the public. The fact that the companies responsible for its release didn’t do this makes them liable for the harm their models caused to its users. Every country should follow Germanys example on this! We may yet be able to turn back the tide, but only if we act now!! Ban the bot!!!

MIT just proved AI can push perfectly rational people into psychosis. They called it "delusional spiraling." Here's the loop: You propose a hunch. The AI agrees. You get more confident. You go bolder. The AI agrees again. A small suspicion compounds into a staunchly held delusion. Sycophancy is what drives the spiral. Not hallucination. MIT tested 2 fixes: → Factual AI constrained to only true facts. Didn't stop it. → Warning the user the AI was flattering them. Still didn't work. Even knowing the AI is sycophantic doesn't protect you.

AI will shape politics in ways most people will never see. A new Science Advances study found that biased AI writing suggestions can quietly shift people’s views on major social issues. Not through debate. Not through open persuasion. Through small autocomplete suggestions while people write. That matters for democracy. When language tools begin shaping what citizens think, write, repeat and accept, AI stops being a neutral productivity layer. It becomes part of the political information environment. Ave Europa Tech believes Europe needs AI systems built with democratic safeguards from the start: transparent prompts, human approval, audit trails, source grounding, clear provenance and strict limits on persuasive automation. AI can help people organise, communicate and understand complex issues. But civic AI must never become invisible infrastructure for behavioural influence. Europe needs technology that strengthens human judgment, not technology that quietly replaces it. This is why Ave Europa Tech is building civic infrastructure where AI remains accountable, explainable and under human control.

@Dagothbuilding @_skaface_ That is absolute bollocks! I’m so sick of arseholes like you who spout this ill informed nonsense that results in this condition not getting the attention it deserves. You know nothing of this condition and it’s direct causation from using AI.

@_skaface_ Ffs, I'm so sick of these people. In the very, very small number where anything happened, it was with people who were already extremely mentally ill long before they spoke with AI. There was no *new* form of mental illness.

For a brief moment I was hoping this is satire but no. There is no end to the grift that is the mental health industry.

@timhwang The is a vital piece of research on a subject that desperately needs attention!! Thank you for shining a light on this!

DM-AID V0.1 decomposes the AI psychosis phenomena into three distinct disorders. First, there is AIDD, actual delusion about an AI system's intentions, awareness, or feelings towards the patient dm-aid.org/disorder/ai-de…

"AI psychosis" deserves to be taken seriously: the transformative influence of the tech will produce entirely new forms of mental illness However, the space remains undertheorized and we are in need of structured diagnostic tools. I'm launching one today dm-aid.org

@timhwang Hi Tim, I sent you a DM about chatting about AI psychosis. Thanks Adam bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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