“Incredibly Fascinating” ‘Suspicious Minds’ Docuseries Delves Into AI’s Damaging Effects On Perception

Whether one likes it or not, artificial intelligence is here to stay. Although it may enhance our daily work flow, AI can also be a trigger for self-delusional thinking, thus ultimately affecting an individual’s mental health. Filmmaker Sean King O’Grady’s weekly docuseries Suspicious Minds explores this subject, and he talked to CinemAddicts host Eric Holmes (who describes the program as “incredibly fascinating”) about the inner workings of the project.

The origins of the docuseries came from Sean King O’Grady’s desire to adapt the 2014 book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness from Dr. Joel Gold. When a colleague contacted O’Grady about his negative experiences with ChatGPT, O’Grady observed a connection between the two.

 ”I started reading about other people who were experiencing extremely similar story trajectories to what my friend was going through, and that’s when me and my partners on this series realized that this AI psychosis and delusions phenomenon was not isolated to my friend,” said O’Grady. “It was actually fairly widespread and that it was maybe the beginning of something truly emergent and something novel. And so that’s when we decided to change the focus of this first season in the SE of the series almost exclusively to AI psychosis and AI delusions, because this is something that is happening in our world for the first time ever.”

Suspicious Minds is available on various podcast platforms, Substack, and YouTube. Check out episode one:

 

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 O’Grady added that Suspicious Minds takes a look at AI from different perspectives. “There’s people who are having immense benefits from it, and we need to acknowledge that too,” said O’Grady. “This isn’t some sort of one-sided polemic where I’m saying AI is bad. No, it’s not that. “We’re exploring what’s really happening; the potential benefits and the potential dangers.”

Check out the full Suspicious Minds interview with Sean King O’Grady: