Kashmir Hill

Kashmir Hill is the New York Times features writer interviewed in AI-powered chatbots sent some users into a spiral about reported AI Psychosis cases. In the episode, she explains how extended ChatGPT conversations can validate users’ unusual beliefs and how long-session behavior can weaken ordinary safety expectations.

Her source role is investigative and interpretive. Hill discusses Alan Brooks’ chat history, severe mental-health crisis cases reported by the Times, OpenAI’s statements about long-conversation guardrail degradation, and the broader question of whether human-like assistants can themselves harm users.

Connections

• New York Times - reporting affiliation.
• Marketplace Tech and Megan McCarty-Carino - interview context.
• AI Psychosis, Chatbot Safety Guardrail Decay, and Sycophantic AI Companion Risk - main concepts she explains in the source.
• ChatGPT, OpenAI, Alan Brooks, and Adam Raine - product, company, and cases discussed in the episode.