Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of ...

Millions of people are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for advice on everything from cooking to tax returns. Increasingly, they are also asking chatbots about their health.

Karan Sharma is a digital commerce expert and the co-founder at Kinex Media Inc, a creative digital agency in Toronto. Just imagine what would have happened if a time traveler had handed a lighter to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday requiring AI chatbot operators to prevent suicide content, notify ...

Millions of Americans now converse with AI chatbots each day. We are talking with machines about travel plans, politics, and in some cases — our most intimate thoughts. To investigate how these ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is working on more proactive chatbots that can send friendly yet unsolicited follow-up messages to users on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, without being prompted to do so first.

Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

Chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Claude can be great for brainstorming or helping with difficult writing like obituaries. But they’re also a minefield of potential goofs and embarrassments.

Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering questions that pose the highest risk to the ...

As more and more people integrate AI into the fabric of their daily lives, the complex and often surprising nature of human-AI relationships is making regular headlines. In January, The New York Times ...