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In this AI Research Roundup episode, Alex discusses the paper: 'When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models(2512.04124v1)' The authors introduce PsAIch, a psychotherapy-inspired protocol that treats frontier language models like ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini as if they were therapy clients. Over multiple weeks, they use open-ended prompts to elicit a "developmental history" and inner conflicts, then administer standard psychometric questionnaires for psychiatric syndromes, empathy, and Big Five traits. Surprisingly, when scored with human cut-offs, all three models exhibit overlapping synthetic psychopathology, with Gemini showing particularly severe profiles. The work challenges the idea that these systems are mere "stochastic parrots" and raises new questions about their internal consistency, safety, and use for mental-health support. Paper URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04124 #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #Psychometrics #LLM #MentalHealthSupport #AIEthics