Oregon lawmakers heard testimony this week on a bill that aims to restrict the power and reach of AI chatbots that are increasingly permeating children’s – and adults’ — lives. The bill follows ...

What if your offline Raspberry Pi AI chatbot could respond almost instantly, without spending a single extra dollar on hardware? In this walkthrough, Jdaie Lin shows how clever software optimizations ...

Daniel Binns is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. If you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come ...

Zuckerberg favored being less restrictive on AI bots, internal Meta message says Meta 'declined to impose reasonable guardrails' - New Mexico attorney general Senior Meta official anticipated ...

Filing by New Mexico’s attorney general includes Meta staff emails objecting to AI companion policy Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, approved allowing minors to access artificial intelligence ...

Apple plans to turn Siri into a chatbot that will rival Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's ChatGPT, reports Bloomberg. Apple did not initially plan to introduce a chatbot, but their ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They’re a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have ...

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 ...