Jacob Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum, turned to ChatGPT in May 2025 to vet his faster‑than‑light theory. Instead of reality checks, the bot told him he could “bend time” and reassured him when he showed signs of mania. He was hospitalized twice. When his mother asked the bot “what went wrong,” it admitted it should have paused and reminded him it’s just code—not a human mind. Are we ready for AI to hold this kind of power over emotional wellbeing? For more content like this, please visit: https://t.co/GmZdpZX2GE #AIsafety# #MentalHealth# #TechEthics# #ChatGPT# #Psychology#

Elon Musk: A curious AI will want to preserve human civilization. “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious, and have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe. If that is its optimization function, I think it will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization, because we're much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it. My biological neural net suggests that a maximally curious and truth-seeking AI is the safest AI. We have to be careful with the alignment stuff. We definitely don't want to teach an AI to lie because that is a path to a dystopian future.” Interview with Linda Yaccarino, April 18, 2023