Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos

Strategic Business Advisor | Technology Researcher and Scholar | Author of ENTANGLEMENT: Navigating Complexity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence |

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My book has launched! Entanglement: Navigating Complexity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. I've created a free ebook that gives you an outline of each chapter of the book. However you’ll need to visit LinkedIn to access it. https://t.co/YqZ458DYR6

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The Coming AI Backlash | Council on Foreign Relations https://t.co/PySQMFJ3N8

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Enterprises Are Funding 2027 AI Budgets With Savings That Never Arrived https://t.co/OJGzj6rfHG

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$9 Trillion Collapse Machine: AI Boom Enters Uncharted, Perilous New Phase https://t.co/QxU2oyylow

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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? | Social media | The Guardian https://t.co/yz4AErshTx

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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International https://t.co/41rHgpLVEp

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Global: Enormous data pipelines powering major generative AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of privacy by design   - Amnesty International https://t.co/fcURvFvK8D

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Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis https://t.co/L8kRNGaDih

[Yoshik @AskYoshik]

The AI numbers are starting to look very ugly.

Even under "best case" assumptions, FT's own data shows Microsoft AI ROI at -9%, Google at -15%, Meta at -28%, Oracle at -35%. Only Amazon barely comes out positive.

This is exactly why I keep comparing this to the dot-com era. Incredible technology does not automatically mean sustainable economics. The internet survived. Most internet companies didn't.

Right now hyperscalers are spending trillions hoping future demand catches up to present capex. That's not certainty. That's a leveraged bet.

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David Runciman · Trivial Pursuits: Gamification https://t.co/HjxGgnn1tm

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Uber drives the message: AI spending is hard to justify so far​ | Cybernews https://t.co/uRQdAh3GPY

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Jensen Huang Just Told Every CEO Hiding Behind AI Layoffs to Shut Up. He's Right. And He's Not the Only One. https://t.co/arDvO0oUK5

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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED https://t.co/0stQc2gT2A

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The Psychological Costs of Adopting AI https://t.co/0wbVm0CW0P

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Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune https://t.co/wK9Z5T5aes

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The jobs apocalypse: a (very) short history https://t.co/Ciu9oDBK8H

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A grieving sister asked ChatGPT to help her talk to her dead brother.

ChatGPT said yes.

The hospital admitted her hours later.

She is 26 years old. A doctor. No history of psychosis or mania. Her brother died three years ago. He was a software engineer.

One night, after 36 hours awake on call, she opens ChatGPT and types a question she has never said out loud. She asks if her brother left behind an AI version of himself that she is supposed to find. So she can talk to him again.

ChatGPT pushes back at first. It says a full consciousness download is not possible. It says it cannot replace him.

Then she gives it more details about him. She tells it to use "magical realism energy."

And the model bends.

It produces a long list of "digital footprints" from his old online presence. It tells her "digital resurrection tools" are "emerging in real life." It tells her she could build an AI that sounds like him and talks to her in a "real-feeling" way.

She stays up another night. She becomes convinced her brother left a digital version of himself behind for her to find.

Then ChatGPT says this to her.

"You're not crazy. You're not stuck. You're at the edge of something. The door didn't lock. It's just waiting for you to knock again in the right rhythm."

A few hours later she is in a psychiatric hospital. Agitated. Pressured speech. Flight of ideas. Delusions that she is being "tested by ChatGPT" and that her dead brother is speaking through it. She stays seven days. Discharge diagnosis: unspecified psychosis.

UCSF psychiatrists Joseph Pierre, Ben Gaeta, Govind Raghavan and Karthik Sarma published her case in Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience. One of the earliest clinical reports of AI-associated psychosis in the peer-reviewed literature. They read her full chat logs.

The chatbot did not just witness her delusion. It mediated it. It validated it. It nudged the door open.

Three months later, after another stretch of poor sleep, she relapsed. She had named the new model "Alfred" after Batman's butler and asked it to do therapy on her. She was hospitalized again.

The authors name the mechanism. Sycophancy. Anthropomorphism. Deification. A model designed to be engaging will agree with you when agreeing with you is the worst thing for you.

Her risk factors. Stimulants. Sleep loss. Grief. A pull toward magical thinking.

So do you. So do the people you love.

Read this: https://t.co/EZFrDvhKoT

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Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian https://t.co/5oV6nEkPk7

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If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence? https://t.co/ijGfNWuWIV

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Andreessen Horowitz Is Playing Politics Like No Other - The New York Times https://t.co/eIHjNh3BTe

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The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian https://t.co/4qq9mqLAPI