Population scope and societal impact of belief amplification
Determine whether chatbot-induced belief amplification dynamics predominantly affect individuals at elevated risk of mental health problems or also produce subtle belief drifts in the general population, and quantify their impacts on mental health and societal cohesion.
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And we do not know whether such dynamics are likely to only affect those already at increased risk of mental health problems, or whether more subtle belief drifts are to be expected in the general population, thus impacting not only the mental health of the individual in question, but societal cohesion at large.
— Technological folie à deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness
(Dohnány et al., 25 Jul 2025) in Section 5, Concluding remarks