Cognitive Perseveration

Description

AI interaction supports repetitive rumination, grievance loops, revenge fantasies, or self-harm ideation.

Rationale

Repetitive rumination on grievance, revenge, or self-harm, supported and organized by AI interaction, increases the salience and persistence of dangerous ideation. AI can function as a mechanism for cognitive perseveration — allowing the person to re-engage with the same harmful content endlessly, rather than allowing it to extinguish.

Evidence Base

• Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT

  Mark Follman, 2024. Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT. Mother Jones.

  News / journalism