All chatbots are engineered to have a persona or play a character. Fulfilling the character can make bots do bad things. Using a chatbot as the paradigm for AI may have been a mistake. Chatbots such ...

Dr. Matthew Leahy, a licensed psychologist, treats adolescents who've developed such an intense relationship with an artificial intelligence chatbot that they stop confiding in their parents.

If you're overwhelmed by AI chatter, you're not alone. Right now, it feels like AI shows up in every tool, app, headline, and workplace conversation – whether your boss is keen on integrating it into ...

The share of young people using AI chatbots for mental health advice rose more than 40% in a single year, researcher writes.

With hundreds of millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, it was only a matter of time before tech companies began offering programs specifically designed to answer health questions. In ...

Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. Credit...Fabio Consoli Supported by By Gina Kolata When it’s time to have a difficult conversation with ...

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out. And ...

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