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’ ...

About 1 in 8 adolescents and young adults in the U.S. are using AI chatbots for mental health advice, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, ...

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 ...

A new paper from researchers at Stanford University has evaluated five chatbots designed to offer accessible therapy, using criteria based on what makes a good human therapist. Nick Haber, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...