It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Keri Rodrigues began to worry about how her kids might be using chatbots. She learned her youngest son was interacting with the chatbot in his Bible app — he ...

A.I. chatbots have been designed to behave in a humanlike way. Some experts think that’s a terrible idea. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer Supported by By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill is a ...

Experts on adolescent psychiatry and psychology say it’s important to have open and continuous discussion with kids about their use of artificial intelligence and AI chatbots. Parents should set ...

Chatbots programmed to respond warmly even cast doubts on Apollo moon landings and fate of Hitler, researchers say The rush to make AI chatbots more friendly has a troubling downside, researchers say.

First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people A new scientific review raises concerns about how chatbots powered by artificial intelligence may ...

AI chatbots have become a big part of all of our lives since they burst onto the scene more than three years ago. ChatGPT, for example, says it has around 700 million weekly active users, many of whom ...

Google has published a strikingly blunt assessment of how reliable modern AI chatbots really are, and the numbers make for uneasy reading. Using its newly launched FACTS Benchmark Suite, the company ...

Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...

Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server. The sudden rise of a huge network of ...