Joe Pierre, MD
@psychunseen.bsky.social
Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
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Joe Pierre, MD
@psychunseen.bsky.social
· May 26
Ever wonder "how can someone believe THAT?"
My book "FALSE: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford University Press, 2025) explains why.
Please give it a read, spread the word, and write a review! 🙏
drjoepierre.com/index.php/fa...
My book "FALSE: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford University Press, 2025) explains why.
Please give it a read, spread the word, and write a review! 🙏
drjoepierre.com/index.php/fa...
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
Medical case study of a woman who developed AI-associated psychosis notes that sleep deprivation played a significant role (I've seen that too!) and that the woman found GPT-5 "much harder to manipulate"
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
“You're Not Crazy”: A Case of New-onset AI-associated Psychosis - Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
Peer-reviewed evidence-based information in neuroscience research and practice, including psychiatry, neurology, psychology
innovationscns.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Medical case study of a woman who developed AI-associated psychosis notes that sleep deprivation played a significant role (I've seen that too!) and that the woman found GPT-5 "much harder to manipulate"
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
Interesting potential story worth investigating... are the targets of US strikes on Venezuela "drug boats" being determined by AI?
Is that how we're making decisions to kill people?
www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/a...
Is that how we're making decisions to kill people?
www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/a...
AI against cocaine: How America is using artificial intelligence to stop drug trafficking
Including the first one in September, the US has carried out 16 airstrikes against “drug boats” so far. This is how AI is part of their maritime war against drugs.
www.hindustantimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Interesting potential story worth investigating... are the targets of US strikes on Venezuela "drug boats" being determined by AI?
Is that how we're making decisions to kill people?
www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/a...
Is that how we're making decisions to kill people?
www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/a...
That bandage covers President Trump's adrenochrome injection site.
Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
That bandage covers President Trump's adrenochrome injection site.
Can't wait to see the headlines about the next viral outbreak at this new "megadorm"
The new Market Street building features more than 10 times the capacity of the Mint Plaza building that features dormitory-style housing for adults in San Francisco.
Exclusive: S.F. ‘sleeping pods’ startup buys downtown building for 400-bed megadorm
The new Market Street building features more than 10 times the capacity of the Mint Plaza building that features dormitory-style housing for adults in San Francisco.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Can't wait to see the headlines about the next viral outbreak at this new "megadorm"
Here we go again...
Kennedy is now using his post as the highest-ranking US health official to spread the claim that psychiatric drugs are a key cause of mass shootings at the nation’s schools and beyond.
There is no scientific evidence to support that theory—and extensive research indicates it is untrue.
There is no scientific evidence to support that theory—and extensive research indicates it is untrue.
RFK Jr. blames pills—not guns—for school shootings
There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but Kennedy now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
www.motherjones.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Here we go again...
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
Trump's white nationalist aides are churning out vile videos glorifying migrant suffering. But Trump-MAGA are *losing* the online culture wars over deportations, because the humane side is info-warring better.
Check out @paulwaldman.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
Check out @paulwaldman.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Trump's white nationalist aides are churning out vile videos glorifying migrant suffering. But Trump-MAGA are *losing* the online culture wars over deportations, because the humane side is info-warring better.
Check out @paulwaldman.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
Check out @paulwaldman.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
Grokipdeia is citing the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront.
Another crystal clear illustration of the GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) limitation of AI LLM chatbots.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Another crystal clear illustration of the GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) limitation of AI LLM chatbots.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Elon Musk Is Not Beating the Allegations: Grokipedia Cites a Hardcore Nazi Website 42 Times
A new analysis of AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, "Grokipedia," found that it cites the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront 42 times.
futurism.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Grokipdeia is citing the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront.
Another crystal clear illustration of the GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) limitation of AI LLM chatbots.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Another crystal clear illustration of the GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) limitation of AI LLM chatbots.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
presented without comment
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
MAGA was always about improving personal status and lost privilege by electing a businessman running on populist promises.
But businessmen like Trump don’t care about workers or the American people, they only care about stuffing their own pockets.
www.publicnotice.co/p/post-trump...
But businessmen like Trump don’t care about workers or the American people, they only care about stuffing their own pockets.
www.publicnotice.co/p/post-trump...
Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams
Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.
www.publicnotice.co
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
MAGA was always about improving personal status and lost privilege by electing a businessman running on populist promises.
But businessmen like Trump don’t care about workers or the American people, they only care about stuffing their own pockets.
www.publicnotice.co/p/post-trump...
But businessmen like Trump don’t care about workers or the American people, they only care about stuffing their own pockets.
www.publicnotice.co/p/post-trump...
Happy Birthday Bruce Lee
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Happy Birthday Bruce Lee
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
futurism.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
"This case provides evidence that new-onset psychosis in the form of delusional thinking can emerge in the setting of immersive AI chatbot use."
Pre-print of our case of new-onset AI-associated psychosis in a patient with no prior psychotic episodes.
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
“You're Not Crazy”: A Case of New-onset AI-associated Psychosis - Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
Peer-reviewed evidence-based information in neuroscience research and practice, including psychiatry, neurology, psychology
innovationscns.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"This case provides evidence that new-onset psychosis in the form of delusional thinking can emerge in the setting of immersive AI chatbot use."
Pre-print of our case of new-onset AI-associated psychosis in a patient with no prior psychotic episodes.
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
“You're Not Crazy”: A Case of New-onset AI-associated Psychosis - Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
Peer-reviewed evidence-based information in neuroscience research and practice, including psychiatry, neurology, psychology
innovationscns.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pre-print of our case of new-onset AI-associated psychosis in a patient with no prior psychotic episodes.
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
Trump drafts executive order preventing regulation of a product that tells people how to harm themselves and encourages delusional thinking. 🤔
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations
The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal ban on state AI regulation, as more lawmakers raise concerns about the technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Trump drafts executive order preventing regulation of a product that tells people how to harm themselves and encourages delusional thinking. 🤔
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The jocks may have been the kings of high school, but he came to understand that it was a fleeting achievement.
"I remember as a kid thinking, it doesn't matter if you're good at this... you become suspicious of how everything works--power structures; whatever the caste systems are..."
"I remember as a kid thinking, it doesn't matter if you're good at this... you become suspicious of how everything works--power structures; whatever the caste systems are..."
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The jocks may have been the kings of high school, but he came to understand that it was a fleeting achievement.
"I remember as a kid thinking, it doesn't matter if you're good at this... you become suspicious of how everything works--power structures; whatever the caste systems are..."
"I remember as a kid thinking, it doesn't matter if you're good at this... you become suspicious of how everything works--power structures; whatever the caste systems are..."
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
When did political division stop being about policy disagreements and become about tribal warfare?
When the goals shift from coexistence to defeat, false beliefs become weapons and truth becomes whatever serves you.
Tune in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
When the goals shift from coexistence to defeat, false beliefs become weapons and truth becomes whatever serves you.
Tune in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
When did political division stop being about policy disagreements and become about tribal warfare?
When the goals shift from coexistence to defeat, false beliefs become weapons and truth becomes whatever serves you.
Tune in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
When the goals shift from coexistence to defeat, false beliefs become weapons and truth becomes whatever serves you.
Tune in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
Dictator Politics 101:
Create a mess, dig the country into a hole, walk it back, and then claim credit for being a hero.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Create a mess, dig the country into a hole, walk it back, and then claim credit for being a hero.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit in a push to lower grocery store prices
President Donald Trump has announced the removal of U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and other commodities.
apnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Dictator Politics 101:
Create a mess, dig the country into a hole, walk it back, and then claim credit for being a hero.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Create a mess, dig the country into a hole, walk it back, and then claim credit for being a hero.
apnews.com/article/trum...
New book on Cults and Persuasive Leadership with a chapter by me.
Check it out.
Check it out.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New book on Cults and Persuasive Leadership with a chapter by me.
Check it out.
Check it out.
Reposted by Joe Pierre, MD
Dr. Joe Pierre joins Critically Speaking to explore why our brains choose comfort over truth and what it costs us when we can't tell the difference between confidence and correctness.
Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Waking up to find out that John Zorn's Tzadik label recordings are no longer available on Spotify
Not cool.
How am I supposed to get my daily dose of the Brian Marsella Trio?
Not cool.
How am I supposed to get my daily dose of the Brian Marsella Trio?
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Waking up to find out that John Zorn's Tzadik label recordings are no longer available on Spotify
Not cool.
How am I supposed to get my daily dose of the Brian Marsella Trio?
Not cool.
How am I supposed to get my daily dose of the Brian Marsella Trio?
Starting in a few minutes... join us for Q&A!
Zoom in to @indivisible.org today at 1:30 PM to hear me and other experts talk about medical misinformation.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Starting in a few minutes... join us for Q&A!
Zoom in to @indivisible.org today at 1:30 PM to hear me and other experts talk about medical misinformation.
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Zoom in to @indivisible.org today at 1:30 PM to hear me and other experts talk about medical misinformation.