Some people who say AI chatbots upended their lives and the lives of their loved ones, are now turning to each other for ...

Most chatbots can be easily tricked into providing dangerous information, according to a new report from arXiv. The study found that so-called “dark LLMs” – AI models that have either been designed ...

Chatbots share limited information, reinforce ideologies, and, as a result, can lead to more polarized thinking when it comes to controversial issues, according to new Johns Hopkins University–led ...

Emotional AI is here—chatbots that simulate empathy, offer support, and even act as digital therapists. But beneath the interface, there’s no understanding—only optimization. It behaves like a ...

Ahead of the U.S. presidential election this year, government officials and tech industry leaders have warned that chatbots and other artificial intelligence tools can be easily manipulated to sow ...

We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature ...

More and more people are turning to ChatGPT or other AI chatbots for advice and emotional support, and it’s easy to see why. Unlike a friend or a therapist, a chatbot is always available, listens to ...

Jaime Banks studies the growing relationships between humans and chatbots ...

I was recently interviewed for an article on the emotional connection that people can develop with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. 1 Here's an edited summary of the exchange. As a psychiatrist, ...

Update (15 January, 2025): Meta’s new rules go into effect from today. Companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, and Microsoft have already announced that their WhatsApp chatbot will stop working. Regulators ...