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 ...

Artificial intelligence has dominated headlines over the last few years, for good reasons. It has been compared with the industrial revolution in that it will change the way we do everything and ...

To make the most of his 30-minute appointments with patients, Penn Medicine Chief Health Information Officer Srinath Adusumalli goes through his patients’ charts the day before to figure out why they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has published a blunt assessment of how reliable today’s AI chatbots really are, and the numbers are not flattering. Using its newly introduced FACTS Benchmark Suite, the company found that ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reported on the growing concerns surrounding Character AI, an app and website that allows users to interact with AI-generated chatbots, some of ...

Laundry-listing facts rarely changes hearts and minds – unless a bot is doing the persuading. Briefly chatting with an AI moved potential voters in three countries toward their less preferred ...

A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation. In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, ...

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 ...

All non-Meta AI chatbots from the platform will be banned on WhatsApp, Facebook's parent firm announced. The major update will apply starting January 15, 2026. If you're using ChatGPT, Microsoft ...