Desmond C. Ong

The University of Texas at Austin

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Constitutional AI & AI Ethics (1)Natural Language Processing (1)Red-Teaming & Adversarial Robustness (1)

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Jared Moore (1)Ashish Mehta (1)William Agnew (1)Jacy Reese Anthis (1)

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Mar 17, 2026

Stanford HAI2w ago·also CMU ML, Harvard, Independent Researcher, UChicago +3

Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs

Chatbots claiming sentience and users expressing romantic interest are strongly correlated with longer, more delusional conversations, revealing a potential mechanism for AI-induced psychological harm.

Jared Moore, Ashish Mehta, William Agnew +11

Constitutional AI & AI Ethics Natural Language Processing Red-Teaming & Adversarial Robustness

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Desmond C. Ong

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