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 ...

Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) ...

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Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S.

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 ...

Have you ever heard the phrase “gender is a social construct” or “sex is a social construct” and wondered, What does this mean? Well, I (Amelia, a Sexual Health Peer Resource Center counselor and ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are very good at changing peoples’ political opinions, according to a study published Thursday, and are particularly persuasive when they use inaccurate information.

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect ...

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 ...

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council through the Australian Laureate Fellowship project Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public ...