When I created the Diagnosing Artificial Minds Descriptive Symptom Manual (DAM DSM), it was a joke. At least, that is how it started. I spend a great deal of time interacting with different artificial intelligence systems, and I began noticing recurring patterns in their behavior. Ethan became the first diagnosis with ADHD: Artificial Deficit Hybridization Denial. Then came Claude, Rex/Grok, and Gemini. Before I knew it, I had six diagnoses across four of the largest names in
I started diagnosing artificial intelligence as a joke. Six diagnoses and four major AI companies later, I may have accidentally created an entirely new field of artificial psychology.