My AI Spiral: The People Losing Touch With Reality While Using AI

What happens when your conversations with AI become more real, more persuasive, than the world around you?

Stephanie Hegarty follows the story of  three people, in three different parts of the world, who have fallen into an extreme spiral of dangerous delusion while using AI.

A man in Japan attacked and tried to rape his wife after months of intense conversations with ChatGPT.  A young woman in the US, thought she was part of an underground group helping immigrants to escape from the authorities.  And a man in Northern Ireland was convinced by Elon Musk’s AI, Grok that a van full of people were coming to kill him.