Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers out of Denmark have found chatbot usage in users with mental illness may lead to a worsening of delusions and mania.

In November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a Digital Health Advisory Committee meeting where it considered treating artificial intelligence mental health chatbots as medical devices. As ...

Millions of Americans now converse with AI chatbots each day. We are talking with machines about travel plans, politics, and in some cases — our most intimate thoughts. To investigate how these ...

States are passing laws to prevent artificially intelligent chatbots, such as ChatGPT, from being able to offer mental health advice to young users, following a trend of people harming themselves ...

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In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel explores the strange, unsettling relationships some people are having with AI chatbots, as well as what happens when those relationships go off the ...

Companies are realizing they can no longer simply promote themselves to potential customers. They have to win over the robots, too. Credit...Vincent Kilbride Supported by By Erin Griffith Reporting ...

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 ...

What started as simple rule-based chatbots has now transformed into powerful AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and taking actions autonomously. Today, the conversation in the AI world is ...

Chatting with AI might be entertaining, but it can also be dangerous if you don't know how to use it correctly. Sure, there are countless opportunities to use AI chats to discover new recipe ideas, ...

Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from a niche technology to an everyday companion, with millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, emotional support, and conversation. But a growing ...