AI As A Frenemy: Inside The Teen Chatbot Revolution
While the potential benefits of personalized AI interaction are undeniable, the reality reveals a complex interplay of ...
Psychology Today2d
AI Chatbots: Authentic Connection or Emotional Crutch?
Recent research on the emotional use of AI Chatbots reveals that for a subgroup of "heavy users," it can be associated with ...
I tested 8 AI chatbots for our first ever AI Madness — and this is the surprise winner
AI Madness threw eight leading AI chatbots into a single-elimination showdown. We judged each prompt on key factors such as ...
Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users
Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new ...
TechCrunch3d
Anthropic launches an AI chatbot plan for colleges and universities
The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty, and other staff access to Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, with a few additional capabilities. One piece of Claude for ...
Science Daily5d
My robot therapist: The ethics of AI mental health chatbots for kids
AI mental health apps may offer a cheap and accessible way to fill the gaps in the overstretched U.S. mental health care system, but ethics experts warn that we need to be thoughtful about how we use ...
NDTV2d
An AI Companion Chatbot Is Inciting Self-Harm, Sexual Violence, Terror Attacks
This crisis is driving millions to seek companionship from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. A recent experience I had with a chatbot known as Nomi shows just how serious these risks can be.
Anthropic debuts a new version of its Claude AI chatbot for schools
OpenAI's o3 and DeepSeek's R1 models have some new competition. Anthropic announced Monday the release of its new "hybrid reasoning" model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
Forbes11d
How To Train An Effective AI Bot: 19 Essential Factors
From internal tools for research, proactive cybersecurity monitoring or knowledge-sharing to public-facing tools that can answer common customer questions, recommend products and open up self ...
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...
TechCrunch29d
Russian propaganda is reportedly influencing AI chatbot results
Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating ...
The Hill29d
AI chatbots infected with Russian disinformation: Study
The world’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are infected with Russian disinformation, according to a study published Thursday. The research done by the news monitoring service ...