How AI Chatbot Use Can Cause “Digital Folie à Deux”

Image credit: Kohji Asakawa via Pixabay. Article by Joe Pierre M.D. Psychology Today – March 24, 2026.

AI-fueled delusions portend other false beliefs shared on a massive scale.

With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness of two.” Offering commentary for a news article back in September, I noted that the two syndromes do have some similarities.¹ […]

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