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A new survey from the American Psychological Association is raising some uncomfortable questions about AI in mental health care. More than a third of psychologists report that their patients are now turning to AI as a kind of supplementary therapist. Clinicians are concerned, warning that the technology can actually reinforce delusional thinking rather than challenge it.
That tension between AI's usefulness and its risks shows up in another story making the rounds today. Researchers have found that ChatGPT can still be manipulated into generating sexualized and violent imagery, despite OpenAI's content safeguards. The findings suggest that with enough prompting creativity, those guardrails remain easier to bypass than the company would likely prefer.
Meanwhile, on the developer side, a builder named Kaushik is drawing attention on Hacker News for a tool called Rocketgraph. The idea is straightforward but pointed — as AI increasingly writes and debugs code, traditional log observability tools weren't built for that reality. Rocketgraph uses machine learning to compress billions of log entries into a compact snapshot that an AI can actually reason over.
Three stories, one throughline: we keep handing AI more responsibility while still working out whether it's ready for the job. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
