Despite a major usage and monetization gap, Meta, like many AI companies, is going all in on AI chatbots -- even giving them the ability to strike up a conversation with you, unprompted. BI reported ...

As Artificial intelligence moves into every corner of modern life, we examine the ways AI enhances how we have fun and seek connection. By now, you’re probably aware of AI chatbots and their basic ...

Paper: Doctors Should Screen For ‘Problematic Chatbot Use’ As New Mental Health Risk Factor In A Nutshell One in ten ...

Teen use of AI chatbots is growing, and psychologists worry it's affecting their social development and mental health. Here's ...

Person of the Year is one of our most enduring franchises. Every year, we aim to name a Person of the Year—the person, group, or concept that had the most influence on the world during the previous 12 ...

A version of this essay first appeared on the website of the U.S. PIRG Education Fund. With the rise of ChatGPT and social media companies like Snapchat and Instagram integrating AI chatbots into ...

The very qualities that make chatbots appealing—they always listen, never judge, and tell you what you want to hear—can also make them dangerous. Especially for autistic people. When chatbots say ...

Anthropic is now the third AI company whose chatbot conversations with users have become inadvertently accessible in search results from Google. The conversations appeared to be ones that users of its ...

The technology is used by more than 70% of teenagers in the U.S. Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having ...

Many of us therapists are currently struggling with the concept of synthetic relationships. Not because we don’t understand the technology, but because we don’t quite know what to do when our clients ...

From fake court cases to billion-dollar market losses, these real AI hallucination disasters show why unchecked generative AI ...

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot ...