Episode

Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis

Podcast: Your Undivided Attention
Published: Jan 21, 2026
Duration seconds: 3047
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Summary

"AI psychosis" has made headlines, but the risks to our mental health and relationships go beyond the really noisy cases. What we are seeing is the emergence of an attachment economy exploiting our deepest psychological vulnerabilities at scale and for profit. In this episode, Dr. Zak Stein explores how AI chatbots systematically hack human attachment in ways we've never seen before.