A recent article in the MIT Technology Review details a series of interactions between a user and a chatbot personalized by the user through choices among various options offered by the bot’s ...

AI chatbots have become a big part of all of our lives since they burst onto the scene more than three years ago. ChatGPT, for example, says it has around 700 million weekly active users, many of whom ...

Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from ...

A tool that has helped to transform modern social-science research is under threat thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers are warning that a wave of chatbots impersonating people could corrupt ...

Pope Leo XIV warned over the weekend that “overly affectionate” chatbots powered by artificial intelligence are intruding into people’s “intimate spheres,” distorting human emotions and threatening to ...

More than 40 million people daily turn to ChatGPT for health information, according to OpenAI. Artificial intelligence chatbots can help patients understand medical information, but they can also ...

Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits. By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Kashmir Hill Julia Sheffield, a psychologist who ...

Confirming which users are kids is politically fraught and a technical nightmare. Here’s what moves from OpenAI and the FTC tell us. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly ...

Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.

The best AI chatbots of 2026: I tested ChatGPT, Copilot, and others to find the top tools around ...

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