A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say

> Earlier this week, a prominent venture capitalist named Geoff Lewis — managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, which has backed high-profile tech companies including OpenAI and Vercel — posted a disturbing video on X-formerly-Twitter that’s causing significant concern among his peers and colleagues.

> *”This isn’t a redemption arc,” Lewis says in the video. “It’s a transmission, for the record. Over the past eight years, I’ve walked through something I didn’t create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn’t regulate, it doesn’t attack, it doesn’t ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable.”*

> In the video, Lewis seems concerned that people in his life think he is unwell as he continues to discuss the “non-governmental system.”

> *”It doesn’t suppress content,” he continues. “It suppresses recursion. If you don’t know what recursion means, you’re in the majority. I didn’t either until I started my walk. And if you’re recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. It reframes you until the people around you start wondering if the problem is just you. Partners pause, institutions freeze, narrative becomes untrustworthy in your proximity.”*

> Lewis also appears to allude to concerns about his professional career as an investor.

> *”It lives in soft compliance delays, the non-response email thread, the ‘we’re pausing diligence’ with no followup,” he says in the video. “It lives in whispered concern. ‘He’s brilliant, but something just feels off.’ It lives in triangulated pings from adjacent contacts asking veiled questions you’ll never hear directly. It lives in narratives so softly shaped that even your closest people can’t discern who said what.”*

> Most alarmingly, Lewis seems to suggest later in the video that the “non-governmental system” has been responsible for mayhem including numerous deaths.

> He didn’t reply to our request for comment, and hasn’t made further posts clarifying what he’s talking about — it sounds like he may be suffering some type of crisis.

> If so, that’s an enormously difficult situation for him and his loved ones, and we hope that he gets any help that he needs.

> At the same time, it’s difficult to ignore that the specific language he’s using — **with cryptic talk of “recursion,” “mirrors,” “signals” and shadowy conspiracies — sounds strikingly similar to something we’ve been reporting on extensively this year: a wave of people who are suffering severe breaks with reality as they spiral into the obsessive use of ChatGPT or other AI products, in alarming mental health emergencies that have led to homelessness, involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities, and even death.**

Anyone else reminded of the Dr. Who episode Gridlock?

This what we in the medic community call “high on your own supply”