Key Highlights
- He is a heavy ChatGPT user and uses it even when there’s a better non-AI alternative (eg he’ll ask it for train times rather than using Trainline, even though it’s less accurate).
- He just got his ChatGPT Wrapped and he’s in the top 0.3% of users worldwide.
- I worry about his ability to think independently, as well as the environmental impact.
- I know it’s a useful tool for him at work, but he uses it for everything in life. I’m very aware I can come across as quite naggy, and his ADHD can make him obsessive.
- I’d love some advice on how to approach this with him . Running a business can be stressful, and although your boyfriend’s ADHD may be a factor, I wonder if he is anxious anyway and if his use of AI is a symptom rather than the cause. I took your letter to consultant clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal and Henry Shelford, CEO of ADHD UK. Blumenthal wondered if we are “on the verge of a new diagnostic category of ‘chatbot overdependence syndrome’ as we head into an age in which we become increasingly reliant on AI.
