United Kingdom, Aug. 21 -- Microsoft boss Mustafa Suleyman is concerned by a rise in reports of "AI psychosis".

The tech giant's head of artificial intelligence (AI) has written a series of X posts explaining how "seemingly conscious AI" - AI tools which appear to be sentient - keep him "awake at night" and says they have a societal impact despite the tech not being human.

Suleyman wrote: "There's zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality."

"AI psychosis" is a non-clinical term describing incidents where people are increasingly reliant on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Grok and become convinced that something imaginary has become real.

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