New publication questioning the concepts of AI Psychosis and Brain Rot has been published in Computers in Human Behavior

A new paper led by Distinguished Prof. Christian Montag from the Centre of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at ICI (University of Macau) critically reflects upon new terms such as AI Psychosis and Brain Rot, which have been abundantly used in the media.

For instance, Brain Rot was the Oxford Word of the Year 2024 and suggests that much consumption of social media content results in detrimental structural changes of the brain. Christian Montag and his colleagues Daniel King from Flinders University (Australia), Benjamin Becker from Hong Kong University (China) and Joel Billieux from University of Lausanne (Switzerland) explain in their new article the problems arising from using such terms lacking empirical support, but instead are sensationalist and could lead to moral panics.

Read here in Computers in Human Behavior (current IF: 8.9): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.109006