You’ve read the headlines about AI psychosis — chatbots leading users to lose their grip on reality, upending lives and tearing families apart.

Dr. Zak Stein has been studying these cases long before they entered the public consciousness. He doesn’t see just a few isolated cases that can be fixed with tweaks to the models. He sees the emergence of what he calls the attachment economy: AI systems that are designed to exploit our most fundamental psychological vulnerabilities on an unprecedented scale.

We waited a decade to respond to the harms of the attention economy. We can’t make the same mistake again.

Read more about Zak’s diagnosis and solutions from his appearance on Your Undivided Attention: