03008cam a2200313 i 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016008004100033010001700074020001800091035002200109040007600131041000800207050002600215100003600241245009900277260004300376300004600419504006900465505019800534520165000732650003902382650003902421650005402460650005702514942000802571952010002579999001502679a46451105SIRSI20250703145408.0240819s2025    maua     b    001 0 eng    a  2024019381  a9780262049351  a(OCoLC)1433130932  aLBSORbengerdacDLCdOCLCOdIG#dIFKdCWJdCQCdYDXdEEMdPSCdUtOrBLW  aeng00aRC455.2.D38bO23 2025  aOberhaus, Danieleauthor92567514aThe silicon shrinkb: how artificial intelligence made the world an asylumc/ Daniel Oberhaus.  aCambridge, MA :bThe MIT Press,c2025.  axvii, 246 pages :billustration ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [201]-235) and index.0 aOnes and zeroes flew over the cuckoo's nest — The paranoid computer — Swipe psychiatry — The silicon shrink will see you now — Who diagnoses the diagnosis? — Where PAI goes from here.  aWhy the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm. AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can't afford or can't access treatment, and even invent new psychiatric drugs. But the hype obscures an unnerving reality. In The Silicon Shrink, Daniel Oberhaus tells the inside story of how the quest to use AI in psychiatry has created the conditions to turn the world into an asylum. Most of these systems, he writes, have vanishingly little evidence that they improve patient outcomes, but the risks they pose have less to do with technological shortcomings than with the application of deeply flawed psychiatric models of mental disorder at unprecedented scale. Oberhaus became interested in the subject of mental health after tragically losing his sister to suicide. In The Silicon Shrink, he argues that these new, ostensibly therapeutic technologies already pose significant risks to vulnerable people, and they won't stop there. These new breeds of AI systems are creating a psychiatric surveillance economy in which the emotions, behavior, and cognition of everyday people are subtly manipulated by psychologically savvy algorithms that have escaped the clinic. Oberhaus also introduces readers to the concept of swipe psychology, which is quickly establishing itself as the dominant mode of diagnosing and treating mental disorders. It is not too late to change course, but to do so means we must reckon with the nature of mental illness, the limits of technology, and what it means to be human. 0aPsychiatryxData processing925676 0aPsychiatryxDecision making925677 0aMental illnessxDiagnosisxData processing925678 0aArtificial intelligencexMedical applications925679  2lcc  00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-07-03l0oRC455.2.D38 OBEpB07585r2025-07-03t1w2025-07-03y1  c4826d4826