{
  "id": 5329548,
  "title": "Black Box: The Chatbots | Spirals | Ep 1 – podcast",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/black-box-the-chatbots-spirals-ep-1-podcast",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-03T12:42:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2026/sep/03/black-box-the-chatbots-spirals-ai-psychosis-podcast"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, or is leading them to a higher spiritual realm. The Guardian journalist Michael Safi begins investigating a phenomenon labelled ‘AI psychosis’, travelling to the US to meet two people who have been on…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}