{"id":1151473,"date":"2025-10-07T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=1151473"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:34:19","slug":"psychological-influences-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/psychological-influences-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological influences of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background-catalina-blue card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1402\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aether-blue-header.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"background pattern\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aether-blue-header.png 1402w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aether-blue-header-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aether-blue-header-1024x268.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aether-blue-header-768x201.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aether-blue-header-240x63.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1402px) 100vw, 1402px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 \">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"psychological-influences-of-ai\">Psychological influences of AI<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Psychological Influences of AI (Psi) project explores how AI\u2014especially generative AI\u2014affects human psychology, including cognition, emotion, behavior, and well-being. It investigates topics such as trust, dependency, attention, agency, the psychological impacts of anthropomorphic AI, people forming problematic relationship with AI, and AI-associated delusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One example of a project we are actively working on is understanding, through qualitative in-depth research interviews, those moments when people felt maybe AI was too real, understood or was aware of more than we know. We interviewed people who experienced such moments with AI to understand what led to this experience and how they made sense of it. Another example project is investigating the phenomenon of AI-associated delusions and identifying appropriate interventions grounded in users&#8217; experiences as well as clinical best practices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Psychological Influences of AI (Psi) project explores how AI\u2014especially generative AI\u2014affects human psychology, including cognition, emotion, behavior, and well-being. It investigates topics such as trust, dependency, attention, agency, the psychological impacts of anthropomorphic AI, people forming problematic relationship with AI, and AI-associated delusions. 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