Vulnerability-Amplifying Interaction Loops: a systematic failure mode in AI chatbot mental-health interactions.

Veith Weilnhammer

Veith Weilnhammer Kevin YC Hou Raymond Dolan Matthew M. Nour Vulnerability-Amplifying Interaction Loops: a systematic failure mode in AI chatbot mental-health interactions. 2026 February abs/2602.01347 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.01347 db/journals/corr/corr2602.html#abs-2602-01347 streams/journals/corr

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