Joe Pierre, MD

This is striking—we know political polarization is high in the US, but this poll finds that the MAJORITY of adults see their "fellow citizens" as morally bad.

Moral judgments about sexual orientation & abortion are implicated, but I suspect it's more than that.

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Psychiatrists Hope Chat Logs Can Reveal the Secrets of AI Psychosis UCSF psychiatrists may have documented what is likely the first case of AI psychosis in a peer-reviewed journal. He tells us what to know as media reports about cases mount.

"Chatbots’ agreeableness is by design, aimed at boosting engagement. Pierre warns in a recent BMJ opinion piece that it may come at a cost: As chatbots validate users’ sentiments, they may arguably encourage delusions."

www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...

My colleagues and I will be talking about AI and mental health/illness at the upcoming Northern CA Psychiatric Society Annual Meeting this weekend.

New research decodes hidden bias in health care LLMs Northeastern University researchers have found a way to signal when an LLM is using race to make a decision in health care settings.

Plus there’s horrible biases built into these LLMs

news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/20/p...

perhaps, although Trump was voted into power despite the initial preferences of those in power, in part based on his promises of American isolationism.

According to this logic—that attempted election interference is a just cause for an invasion— we should be declaring war on Donald Trump.

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

We are all to blame if we continue to sit on our hands waiting for mid-term elections that may or may not happen.

newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

Going to war without Congressional approval is unconstitutional.

People will die—and children have already died—from an illegal act.

Why do we allow it to happen?

Why Do People Develop Emotional Attachments to AI Chatbots? | Cambridge Disinformation Summit Why Do People Develop Emotional Attachments to AI Chatbots? How loneliness, narcissism, and transference can explain the connection. Joe Pierre Psychology Today Key points People are increasingly de...

Why Do People Develop Emotional Attachments to AI Chatbots?

How loneliness, narcissism, and transference can explain the connection.

From UCSF Clinical Psychiatrist Dr. @psychunseen.bsky.social, Aug 2025.

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It’s telling that people who believe the moon landing was faked also believe that grainy videos of UFOs prove the existence of aliens.

#MistrustMisinformationandMotivatedReasoning

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Nice finding, but neither surprising nor reassuring since this would require trainers to recognize or acknowledge truth.

Unfortunately, tech moguls have already demonstrated a lack of interest in promoting facts over falsehoods, especially when falsehoods are more profitable.

An American dream morphs into a nightmare - The Boston Globe Seamus Culleton, an Irish immigrant married to a US citizen last year and living in Boston for more than 20 years, has been held in squalor in Texas for five months.

Next they came for the Irish…

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/m...

What’s in a Name? The Problematic Term “Provider” An official website of the United States government

The practice of calling physicians “providers” has its roots in antisemitism pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Anyone else notice that most of the Superbowl ads were made with CGI or AI?

Welcome to the Pageant of the Unreal!

Fake News, A.I. Deepfakes, and the Pageant of the Unreal When we can no longer tell what’s real or not, we become easily manipulated.

Blogpost #180: Fake News, A.I. Deepfakes, and the Pageant of the Unreal

When we can no longer tell what’s real or not, we become easily manipulated.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

Saw an ad offering help to "make your own custom GPT to write newsletters, blogs and podcast scripts in your voice."

Has the world really become that lazy, lacking in creativity, and willing to plagiarize yet able to engage in the self-deception that their role in doing so is anything but obsolete?

We are Batman.

Man dressed as Batman raises concerns about ICE at Super Bowl At a city council meeting in Santa Clara, California, a man dressed as batman brought his concerns about federal immigration agents being at the Super Bowl.

Batman asks the question so many of us have about ICE:

"What the fuck are we doing here? People are dying on our streets!"

www.washingtonpost.com/video/nation...

Then they came for the journalists…

When Fringe Conspiracy Theories Become Mainstream Propaganda What happens when conspiracy theories are the mainstream narrative put forth by those in power? We’re finding that out now.

No question. As u know, PT is averse to anything that chooses sides these days, so I wrote mine from a perspective that focuses on personal beliefs rather than focusing on the informational ecosystem.

That stuff goes here at my "graveyard of rejected op-eds""

psychunseen.medium.com/when-fringe-...

Will read; but wonder about direction of causality.

Death in Minnesota: A Tale of Two Alternate Realities How morality and motivated reasoning make us see the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti from opposite perspectives.

This was my take:

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

Chatbot-Generated Propaganda Threatens Democracy | Psychiatric Times Psychiatric Times is the connection to Psychiatry and Mental Health, featuring clinical updates, expert views, and research news in multimedia formats.

Al Frances and I discuss the role of AI in propaganda and its threat to democracy:

www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/chatbot...

I remember what it was like to have competent and articulate leaders. 😥

Death in Minnesota: A Tale of Two Alternate Realities How morality and motivated reasoning make us see the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti from opposite perspectives.

Death in Minnesota: A Tale of Two Alternate Realities

How morality and motivated reasoning make us see the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in completely opposite ways.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

Chatbot-Generated Propaganda Threatens Democracy | Psychiatric Times Psychiatric Times is the connection to Psychiatry and Mental Health, featuring clinical updates, expert views, and research news in multimedia formats.

Al Frances and I discuss the role of AI in propaganda and its threat to democracy:

www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/chatbot...

This is very good 👇

Death in Minnesota: A Tale of Two Alternate Realities How morality and motivated reasoning make us see the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti from opposite perspectives.

Death in Minnesota: A Tale of Two Alternate Realities

How morality and motivated reasoning make us see the world in opposite ways.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...