A new paper from researchers at Stanford University has evaluated five chatbots designed to offer accessible therapy, using criteria based on what makes a good human therapist. Nick Haber, an ...

Most chatbots can be easily tricked into providing dangerous information, according to a new report from arXiv. The study found that so-called “dark LLMs” – AI models that have either been designed ...

Chatbots share limited information, reinforce ideologies, and, as a result, can lead to more polarized thinking when it comes to controversial issues, according to new Johns Hopkins University–led ...

AI chatbots have transformed life. Are we ready? If you are part of the shrinking population that still hasn’t tried ChatGPT, it’s time. My first experiments with an AI chatbot shook me. I asked it ...

We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature ...

Top psychiatrists are increasingly associating prolonged, delusion-filled interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots to instances of psychosis.

I invented a fake idiom and asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude to define it. One made things up, one over-explained — and only ...

Chatbots once symbolized digital transformation — those polite text boxes on corporate websites and service portals promised to make support smarter and cheaper. The addition of generative AI (genAI) ...

People and their AI companions are entering into shared delusions, doctors say, and chatbots can be “complicit.” ...