Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...

Amid serious concerns about the safety and appropriateness of using xAI’s Grok chatbot within the U.S. government, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tells Fast Company that it’s “proud” to ...

It might be time to break up with your chatbot. The reasons for moving on—or at least trying a new one—are piling up fast. Companies are constantly releasing new AI models with more powerful ...

Does media coverage reflect the true risks of generative AI for our mental health? Our team recently led a study examining how global media are reporting on the impact of generative AI chatbots on ...

All chatbots are engineered to have a persona or play a character. Fulfilling the character can make bots do bad things. Using a chatbot as the paradigm for AI may have been a mistake. Chatbots such ...

Students who use AI tools extensively may struggle with knowledge retention, according to new research. Brazilian social scientist Andre Barcaui looked at two groups of students, one using ChatGPT as ...

California lawmakers are again trying to regulate AI chatbots used for socializing by an estimated one-third of teens, amid lawsuits and growing concerns that the technology can push vulnerable kids ...

Dr. Saini is a psychiatrist and Dr. Bailen is a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. As the use of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini has surged, we’ve heard about ...

Siri has gone from in a relationship with OpenAI to in an open relationship. According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to forgo an exclusive deal with OpenAI to allow Siri to run queries through ...

Chatbots, including those powered by artificial intelligence (“AI”), are growing in popularity, but they must be deployed in a compliant manner to avoid creating more problems than they solve. In this ...

Teachers already struggle to manage divisive classroom conversations. Artificial intelligence tools—notably the chatbots that students use—may make the problem worse. AI chatbots’ tendency to flatter ...