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 ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reported on the growing concerns surrounding Character AI, an app and website that allows users to interact with AI-generated chatbots, some of ...

Chatbot culture wars wage on. Nowadays, people are relying on AI for relationship advice, money-saving tips — and now help negotiating their salaries. However, if you’re a woman or minority using the ...

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A proposed bipartisan bill would seek to bar minors from interacting with AI chatbots, marking a forceful attempt to subject AI companies to federal regulation over concerns about minors and AI safety ...

Dr. McBain studies policies and technologies that serve vulnerable populations. On any given night, countless teenagers confide in artificial intelligence chatbots — sharing their loneliness, anxiety ...

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 ...

We’ve heard story after story about people becoming obsessed with AI chatbots and experiencing profound breaks with reality. But there was always an ambiguity: was AI use pushing people into psychosis ...

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 ...

A chatbot is an artificial intelligence tool designed to simulate real-time conversations with users. It operates around the clock, doesn't require breaks and can manage a high volume of requests ...

At the risk of getting a bit too personal here, how are you using artificial intelligence chatbots these days? Did AI whip up that cover letter you were too tired to write yourself? Maybe you relied ...