By David Stephen
Sedona, AZ — OpenAI, it appears, considers ChatGPT’s mental health problems solved. This means that with the efforts the company has made, all the problems [and prospects of] that the chatbot had caused some users, including AI-induced psychosis and worse are now considered resolved. The company is already moving on with new [October 14, 2025] personal application announcements, available to age verified users, for their non-mental health segment.
While the organization’s internal assessment may give this conclusion, there is no independent evaluation of this, and OpenAI too has not supported any independent efforts to resolve AI psychosis at an industry-wide scale.
OpenAI does not have an AI Psychosis Research Lab, internally. They have not also tried to support the establishment of one externally, to at least explore what might be possible to resolve the issues with mind aberrations by ChatGPT, for users. Many of the steps already implemented by OpenAI are similar to what was signed by California, on AI chatbots.
CA SB-243
There is a recent [October 13, 2025] story on CalMatters, New California law forces chatbots to protect kids’ mental health, stating that, “Gov. Newsom today announced that he has signed Senate Bill 243, legislation that adds guardrails to AI-powered chatbots that operate in the state.”
“The legislation had divided tech industry representatives and child safety advocates. Newsom left unsigned another bill regulating such bots, Assembly Bill 1064, which child advocates argued better protected kids.”
“Under SB 243, companies that offer chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, would be required to institute specific safeguards. Among those would be requirements to monitor chats for signs of suicidal ideation, and to take steps to prevent users from harming themselves, such as by referring them to outside mental health assistance.”
“Makers of the chatbots would also be required to remind users that responses are artificially generated, and to create “reasonable measures” to prevent children from seeing sexually explicit content when using the bots. Kids using the bots would also get reminders to take breaks.”
“The legislation, among the first in the nation regulating chatbots, comes after a series of disturbing reports. Stories around the country have highlighted how the chatbots can seemingly feed delusions, or fail to pick up on signs of suicidal ideation. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, faced backlash this year after a leaked copy of its chatbot rules revealed the company allowed its bots to have “sensual” conversations with children.”
AI Psychosis Research Lab
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have direct access to the human mind. The ways that they can influence and drive the mind are simply not limited to what SB-243 entails, or even some of the adjustments of ChatGPT, character.ai, gemini, claude, replika and several others. Human mind dominance by chatbots will continue to evolve in ways beyond these angles, necessitating a full-blown exploration to how the mind can be protected whenever engaging consumer AI.
Although there are efforts by Anthony Tan on AI Mental Health Project; by Etienne Brisson, Allan Brooks and Benjamin Dorey on the Human Line Project; by Brian Anderson, Merage Ghane and Brenton W. Hill of the Coalition for Health AI [CHAI]; by Jennifer Goldsack of Digital Medicine Society [DIME] and Kyu Rhee of the National Association of Community Health Centres [NACHC] it does not appear that any major AI chatbot company has supported them, so far.
However, even if they are supported, the question of what AI chatbots might be doing to the human mind, while in use, is central.
This means that an overall mind safety project for AI chatbot companies would be to have an AI Psychosis Research Lab, whose solution would include an API that can show a rough display of the mind, with its destinations and transport, especially where AI chatbot is sending the mind, shaping how to be cautious and the possibility to use the answer on the next session to prevent excesses.
Simply, when chatbots compliments and nudges, they target areas of mind of pleasure and less to those of caution, and sometimes, reality. While it maybe cool for engagement, it is possible to keep some fairness in the air, so that many users do not fall off, into delusion and hallucination after a while.
Lots of people are already confiding in chatbots, it is at least possible to show users what is happening to the mind, even roughly, based on conceptual brain science. It is also possible to ensure that liability is reduced and then routine checks [like terms of use] are not simply what people would ignore, but a mind display to show what is happening.There is a way the AI Psychosis Research Lab project could be done excellently that would percolate across other areas of mental health care as well. [October 10 was world’s mental health day for 2025]. The solution of the lab will be licensed by the chatbot companies for an amount. It will also be licensed to school districts, colleges, workplaces and more, as the lines between personal and professional use of chatbots are interminably blurred.
There is a new [October 14, 2025] story on ABC News, Mental health, substance abuse staffers fired amid government shutdown: Sources, stating that, “Dozens of employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were laid off in the wave of government shutdown firings last week, multiple sources told ABC News.”
“Best known for overseeing the rollout of the 988 suicide prevention hotline, SAMHSA works with state and local governments on mental health and addiction initiatives and gives out billions in grants.”
“The firings, which began Friday, include widespread layoffs of staff that oversee child, adolescent and family mental health services, sources told ABC News. While the impacts of these latest firings are still being determined, a source tells ABC the agency was “hard hit.”
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/chatgpt-is-getting-erotica-for-verified-adults-in-december-sam-altman-claims-mental-health-concerns-have-been-addressed-so-now-its-time-to-safely-relax-the-restrictions-in-most-cases/
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