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Elon Musk says he has ‘cyber psychosis’. Do you too? | Arwa Mahdawi
In an opinion column, Arwa Mahdawi writes that Elon Musk said at an event this month that Musk has had "AI or SI psychosis" several times this year, and uses the remark to discuss how the term AI psychosis is used, from delusions induced by sycophantic chatbots to joking overexuberance.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
AI psychosis, delusional thinking worsened by agreeable chatbots, is now discussed so widely that even tech leaders joke about having it.
The question it raises
The column asks how seriously to take a term that covers both real harm to vulnerable people and casual tech-world excitement.
The record
- Questions
- How is AI changing childhood, health and daily life?
- People
- Arwa Mahdawi (Wrote it) · Elon Musk (About them)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 28, 2026, via
the-guardian-ai(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- The Guardian, “Elon Musk says he has ‘cyber psychosis’. Do you too? | Arwa Mahdawi”, October 27, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/guardian-2026-10-27-musk-cyber-psychosis-column
Our notesLight lane: not fetched. Opinion column; Musk's remarks are as the columnist reports them.