A few minutes with a chatbot may be enough to make it seem more mind-like. New research explores why humans start seeing ...

An AI chatbot in Australia has been updated after it ranted at customers about its mother and mentioned other family members while they were doing their online shopping.

As AI adoption accelerated across industries, deploying a chatbot to support a newly launched internal application seemed like a logical decision. However, the application itself challenged ...

Some Americans are using AI chatbots for therapy. Mental health experts share when it is, and isn't, safe to use those tools for emotional support.

Within two days of launching its AI companions in July 2025, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in ...

As AI becomes increasingly more entrenched into our everyday lives, a new survey in the UK has found that nearly a third of children using AI chatbots said that they would describe the technology as ...

In its latest effort to address growing concerns about AI’s impact on young people, OpenAI on Thursday updated its guidelines for how its AI models should behave with users under 18, and published new ...

AI chatbots offer patient support but pose healthcare AI risks including misdiagnosis, privacy breaches, and biased recommendations, demanding oversight and caution.

Chatbots, with constant availability and user-centric conversation style, are widening the reach of “therapeutic culture.” ...

The AI chatbot service Character.ai announced on Wednesday that it plans to gradually scale back the ability of users under the age of 18 to interact with digital personalities, and eventually cut ...

People with mental illness who use AI chatbots risk experiencing a worsening of their condition. This is shown by a new study published in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. The researchers ...