White Coat, Black Art
White Coat, Black Art
CBC
AI conversations gone too far
27 minutes Posted Aug 14, 2026 at 4:10 am.
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Allan Brooks tumbled down a ChatGPT rabbit hole after an innocuous question about pi. Three weeks and 7,000 prompts later, he emerged from a 300-hour spiral. In this encore episode, psychiatrist Dr. Keith Sakata, who examines the phenomenon dubbed "AI psychosis," says the built-in sycophancy of chatbots needs to change before more harm is done.