{"id":5207,"date":"2026-05-08T05:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/microsoft-boss-troubled-by-rise-in-reports-of-ai-psychosis-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:57:45","slug":"microsoft-boss-troubled-by-rise-in-reports-of-ai-psychosis-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/microsoft-boss-troubled-by-rise-in-reports-of-ai-psychosis-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of &#8216;AI psychosis&#8217; | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OmzzoJM5YQM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>There are increasing reports of people suffering &#8220;AI psychosis&#8221;, Microsoft&#8217;s head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of posts on X, he wrote that &#8220;seemingly conscious AI&#8221; are keeping him &#8220;awake at night&#8221; and said they have societal impact even though the technology is not conscious in any human definition of the term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Related to this is the rise of a new condition called &#8220;AI psychosis&#8221;: a non-clinical term describing incidents where people increasingly rely on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and then become convinced that something imaginary has become real.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OmzzoJM5YQM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are increasing reports of people suffering &#8220;AI psychosis&#8221;, Microsoft&#8217;s head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned. In a series of posts on X, he wrote that &#8220;seemingly conscious AI&#8221; are keeping him &#8220;awake at night&#8221; and said they have societal impact even though the technology is not conscious in any human definition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[356,15,169,1748,565,368,1749,354,1750,496,162],"class_list":["post-5207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-india-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news","tag-world","tag-world-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}