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 ...

Apple’s long-awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot more akin to ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. His sources say that the Siri chatbot, which ...

The AI era has been dominated by ChatGPT. It seems, however, that Google's Gemini has finally found its footing. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, ...

Google and Character.AI settled lawsuits pertaining to psychological harm to minors allegedly caused by chatbots. At least one lawsuit claimed the chatbot contributed to a teen's suicide. Generative ...

Top psychiatrists increasingly agree that using artificial-intelligence chatbots might be linked to cases of psychosis. In the past nine months, these experts have seen or reviewed the files of dozens ...

Chatbots are marketed as great companions, able to answer any question at any time. They’re not just tools, but confidants; they do your homework, write love notes, and, as one recent lawsuit against ...

In November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a Digital Health Advisory Committee meeting where it considered treating artificial intelligence mental health chatbots as medical devices. As ...

A new report from Stanford Medicine’s Brainstorm Lab and the tech safety-focused nonprofit Common Sense Media found that leading AI chatbots can’t be trusted to provide safe support for teens ...

Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems are going to be harmed. If you want to find out what’s straining the ...

Talking to an AI chatbot in less formal language, as many people do, reduces the accuracy of its responses – suggesting that either we need to be linguistically stricter when using a chatbot, or that ...

Chatbots want to be your friend, when what you really need is a neutral perspective. By Simar Bajaj Emily Willrich, 23, and her roommate had found the perfect apartment: spacious, reasonably priced ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Google announced Thursday that its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini now will be available to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the United States without a subscription. In ...