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Limbic, a British company backed by Khosla Ventures, is working toward a future where people use A.I. to supplement their shrinks rather than rely on the tech altogether—one of the darker trends of the artificial intelligence era so far.

Therapy
There are enough users to form a subreddit of 23,000 people called TherapyGPT—a community full of stories of users going so far as to abandon their human therapists entirely in favor of artificial intervention. Photo: Fabrice Vallon/Cub Sept/Sygma/Getty Images
Ian Krietzberg
March 12, 2026

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A few months back, OpenAI, the Musk antagonist and Trump administration ally, released some data that contained stirring and deeply unsettling insights into the fragility of the increasingly artificial human condition. In response to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the company, OpenAI announced in October that 0.15 percent of its weekly users have had “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Some 0.07 percent of users, meanwhile, showed signs of “serious mental health concerns, such as psychosis and mania.” Those numbers add up: That’s about 1.2 million and 560,000 people, respectively, each week, based on ChatGPT’s contemporaneous base of 800 million weekly active users.