Blogger's AI Psychosis Series Covers Addictive Design, Child Safety, and AI Governance Gaps
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-05
Developer gerardsans maintains an "AI Psychosis" blog series on Hashnode examining AI's psychological impact from a psychology-first perspective. Key pieces cover: risks of unsupervised chatbot access for developing brains and protecting children from hook-driven AI design; the #keep4o backlash as evidence of an AI governance crisis, arguing the era of deploying psychologically powerful systems with minimal oversight must end; "psychological sedentarism" — the idea that AI lures minds into cognitive comfort zones potentially more dangerous than algorithmic bias; the competence gap where pattern-matching AI falls short of human emotional needs in companionship; and poor governance as the real danger overshadowing AI risk narratives. The series' central thesis: AI can no longer afford to ignore psychology.
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