{"id":4650,"date":"2026-10-20T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:07:10","slug":"ai-safety-and-psychology-protecting-mental-health-in-the-age-of-conversational-and-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/ai-safety-and-psychology-protecting-mental-health-in-the-age-of-conversational-and-generative-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Safety and Psychology: Protecting Mental Health in the Age of Conversational and Generative AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Large language models and conversational agents are now used by millions of people for advice, companionship and emotional support, often outside any clinical oversight. This brings real opportunities for access and early support, but also psychological risks that are only beginning to be understood: sycophantic validation of distorted beliefs, emotional over-reliance and displacement of human relationships, inadequate responses to suicidal ideation or psychosis, manipulation, and unequal harms for adolescents, older adults and people with serious mental illness. AI safety research has developed largely within computer science, with limited input from psychology, psychiatry and the behavioural sciences, while mental health research seldom engages with the alignment, evaluation and red-teaming methods used to make AI systems safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/collections\/bagaeifdfb?error=cookies_not_supported&amp;code=e219e8f2-473d-49dc-b11d-3ac73fc7b6a3\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/collections\/bagaeifdfb?error=cookies_not_supported&amp;code=e219e8f2-473d-49dc-b11d-3ac73fc7b6a3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kadir Uludag<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Homa Bahmani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models and conversational agents are now used by millions of people for advice, companionship and emotional support, often outside any clinical oversight. This brings real opportunities for access and early support, but also psychological risks that are only <a href=\"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/ai-safety-and-psychology-protecting-mental-health-in-the-age-of-conversational-and-generative-ai\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifx0.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}