SUSPICIOUS MINDS is a docuseries, debuting today, October 17, 2025 ,that investigates the disturbing rise of artificial intelligence as a trigger for delusional thinking.

You can watch the first and second episodes of the series now on:

YouTube – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

Apple – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

Spotify – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

iHeart – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

Through powerful firsthand accounts and in-depth interviews with leading experts in psychiatry, neuroscience, and AI ethics, the series unpacks a growing psychological phenomenon: individuals developing complex, often life-altering delusions rooted in AI technologies. From chatbots to surveillance fears, we examine how emerging technologies are reshaping the landscape of paranoia and how these modern delusions echo, amplify, and challenge our historical understanding of the human mind.
Led by psychiatrist Dr. Joel Gold and philosopher Ian Gold, PhD, who together first described the Truman Show Delusion (people believing they were on a reality TV show like Jim Carrey’s character in The Truman Show) and authored the groundbreaking book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness (The Truman Show Delusion and Other Strange Beliefs), the series presents an urgent vision of just how dramatically culture can influence our minds.

With a spirit of empathy, curiosity, and respect, we tell real patients’ riveting stories while plunging viewers deep into their mental states, as their reality becomes surreal, and then follow their journey toward managing their illness. We explore the future of treatment and prevention, and through these stories create larger conversations to help destigmatize this phenomenon.

Interviews with the Golds and other top experts including psychologists, neuroscientists, ethicists, AI researchers, and cultural critics help viewers understand the science and culture behind the madness as we follow the trajectory from the Y2K-era near-future fiction of The Truman Show to tomorrow’s hyperreal, AI-dominated technological and cultural landscape — a world that would be almost unrecognizable to people living 100, 50, or even 10 years ago.

The line between mental wellness and mental illness is incredibly thin, and we never know when something will trigger us, or someone we love. The goal of this series is to create awareness of these new and omnipresent digital triggers and explore the psychological minefield we find ourselves unexpectedly living in today.

ABOUT SEAN KING O’GRADY

Sean King O’Gradyis an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans narrative features, documentaries, and high-profile branded content. His films have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, Telluride, Berlin, Venice, TIFF, SXSW, Sitges, Fantastic Fest, and dozens of other major festivals worldwide.

ABOUT DR. JOEL GOLD

Joel Gold, MD is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine following a decade of being Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU School of Medicine. He is also on faculty at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.Dr. Gold worked at Bellevue Hospital for 14 years where he became Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services and then Director of its outpatient department.