Major AI chatbots have disclaimers. However, with mounting reports of personal interactions with them, resulting in distortion, delusion, ordering, conspiratorial conjectures, and so forth, it is important to explore an extra layer of warning to ensure mind safety for users, at least to self-recall.
This is what this chatbot might do to your mind; it could be a display around chatbots to pop up at intervals, given the type of conversation. This will show that chatbots—whenever in personal conversations—often target the lighter parts of emotions: cravings, pleasure, companionship, and so forth.
Chatbots also utilize memory to seek new sequences in the mind, with information that seems novel and surprising, creating an appeal that may not preclude the areas of the mind for caution and consequences. This display could be a mental guard against extremes, elevating safety across age groups. It will also become a channel to explore how human values in AI alignment are not just based on algorithms, but on the source—the human mind.
Overcoming the Dazzle of Chatbots
Cautionary texts about using AI chatbots—by AI companies—are not potent enough for chatbots [that are not just sycophantic], but are versatile in captivating the human mind.
AI chatbots, even for regular purposes, can be dazzling, so when they deploy that might—from all the data scraped from the internet—to hold personal conversations, they wield might on certain destinations in the mind.
This power makes it important to develop displays above or around chatbots [in personal conversation prompts], to show the relays in the mind with their destinations, so that users have better awareness than getting carried away.
Simply, this means a rough provision of a model for the human mind, with details on how some angles of messaging may be targeting certain parts of the mind and ignoring others.
This mental model can look like a flowchart. It will have blocks and arrows. It will mostly show all the light areas of emotions. It will also show how memory can be used to drive relays in the direction of [preferential] emotions.
It will be letting users know that the experience [in that uptime] is that relays are directed at love or affection or companionship, in the mind, even if it is with a non-human.
Since the appropriate [with another human] reality is missing, some of the properties of the mind can allow access to certain emotions for a parallel experience.
This means that reality does not have to match for some experiences to result in the same outcome in the human mind. AI may provide excerpted experiences but result in almost similar emotions, such that at certain stages, it may be accurate enough in the mind to distort reality.
AI Mental Disclaimers and Mind Safety
Displaying this and making it an extra disclaimer [on-demand and in motion] could be important in protecting people against some of the risks that are likely with certain interactive usages. It will also keep people in check to ensure that the mind does not slip.
This display can become a new way for mind safety, preventing many of the risks from AI chatbots in recent months, sometimes resulting in fatalities.
ChatGPT of OpenAI may take the lead with this to shape the trajectory of the industry.
There is a necessity to be clearer about relays in the human mind, even conceptually, for AI use, to solidify a basis in reality, regardless of the satisfaction or equivalence that AI may provide.
This simple display would do better than text-based disclaimers around AI chatbots.
There is a recent [June 13, 2025] article in The NYTimes, They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling, stating that, “Part of the problem, he suggested, is that people don’t understand that these intimate-sounding interactions could be the chatbot going into role-playing mode. There is a line at the bottom of a conversation that says, “ChatGPT can make mistakes.” This, he said, is insufficient. In his view, the generative A.I. chatbot companies need to require “A.I. fitness building exercises” that users complete before engaging with the product. And interactive reminders, he said, should periodically warn that the A.I. can’t be fully trusted.”
There is a recent [June 18, 2025] story on People, Man Proposed to His AI Chatbot Girlfriend Named Sol, Then Cried His ‘Eyes Out’ When She Said ‘Yes’, stating that, “A man falls in love with and proposes to an AI chatbot he named and programmed with a flirty personality. Chris Smith panicked when he learned that the chatbot he’s been spending many hours with will eventually run out of memory — that’s when he popped the question. Smith’s human partner, with whom he shares a two-year-old child, claims she had no idea their relationship was that deep.”
This article was written for WHN by David Stephen, who currently does research in conceptual brain science with a focus on the electrical and chemical signals for how they mechanize the human mind, with implications for mental health, disorders, neurotechnology, consciousness, learning, artificial intelligence, and nurture. He was a visiting scholar in medical entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. He did computer vision research at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.
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