Morrin draws a parallel with cannabis use. While most people can take the drug and be fine, for some people it reacts with preexisting factors that may have otherwise lain dormant, triggering psychosis. Like smoking a joint, he explains, an AI chatbot may act as “accelelerant…for some people who always had that predisposition, but faced with this echo chamber of one, this digital mirror affirms, validates, and amplifies the pre-existing beliefs.”
