A new study has shown that OpenAI’s ChatGPT can experience stress and anxiety, akin to humans, as it is peppered with disturbing information. The study, published in Nature highlighted that elevated anxiety levels can lead to the chatbot appearing moody towards its users and even giving responses that show racist and sexist biases. When humans are scared, their cognitive and social biases are affected; they tend to feel more resentment which reinforces social stereotypes. The researchers cautioned that fine-tuning LLMs for mental health care may reduce biases but it will require substantial amounts of training data, computational resources, and human oversight. However, the study shows that AI systems were not yet capable of replacing mental health professionals, as LLMs might respond inadequately to anxious users, leading to potentially hazardous outcomes, the researchers added. It was also found that the AI chatbots also show signs of deteriorating cognitive abilities with age akin to human patients, a study published last month claimed. The pattern of impairment shown by the AI tools resembled that of human patients with posterior cortical atrophy, a variant of Alzheimer’s disease.