Chatbots are skilled at crafting sophisticated dialogue and mimicking empathetic behavior. They never get tired of chatting.

Chatbots put through psychotherapy report trauma and abuse. Authors say models are doing more than role play, but researchers ...

There’s a well-worn pattern in the development of AI chatbots. Researchers discover a vulnerability and exploit it to do ...

The outstanding winner of the new study is n8n, a project for workflow automation using AI. It received over 100,000 GitHub ...

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

Chatbots are marketed as great companions, able to answer any question at any time. They’re not just tools, but confidants; they do your homework, write love notes, and, as one recent lawsuit against ...

In the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, more than 2,000 Americans, roughly split across partisan lines, were recruited for an experiment: Could an AI model influence their ...

When it comes to interacting with artificial intelligence, a huge generation gap has opened up in the three years since ChatGPT debuted and sparked the current AI boom. According to a new Yahoo/YouGov ...

In 2021, I was a University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. candidate lecturing on my research about how users turn to chatbots for help coping with suicidal ideation. I wasn’t prepared for my students’ ...

Borisuth is a global medicine scholar and medical student at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a research fellow at Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation. Vasan is a ...

Back in 2017, the suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III made national headlines after it was revealed that his girlfriend, Michelle Carter, had encouraged him to take his life over the course of ...