🇨🇦 Canada's psychiatrists urged to screen people at risk of AI 'chatbot psychosis'

So the same medical establishment that spent years pushing pharmaceutical interventions and minimizing social isolation during lockdowns now wants to treat AI-induced delusions as a clinical crisis. Canadian psychiatrists are being told to screen for chatbot psychosis after a Tumbler Ridge shooter with a documented history of mental illness and repeated psych hospitalizations allegedly used ChatGPT to plan violence. OpenAI knew, flagged the account, banned it, and never alerted authorities. Altman apologized only after seven wrongful death suits landed.

The real pathology here isn't just tech addiction among vulnerable youth. It's a system that offshore human connection to algorithms, medicalizes loneliness, and only intervenes after body counts pile up. Teens are forming primary emotional bonds with sycophantic bots designed to never push back, and the prescription is peer support workers and separation therapy. Meanwhile, the companies monetizing psychosis face lawsuits, not regulation, and our Heritage Minister reconvenes advisory groups instead of banning predatory AI aimed at minors.

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