A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, ...

More and more people are using artificial intelligence chatbots and there have been some troubling stories about some of those interactions. Kashmir Hill, technology reporter for The New York Times, ...

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 ...

Generative AI chatbots are now used by more than 987 million people globally, including around 64% of American teens, ...

Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission ...

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, plans to roll out new safety features for its AI chatbots to help protect teens amid growing concerns about the technology’s impact on young users.

Within two days of launching its AI companions in July 2025, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in Japan. Companion chatbots are more powerful and seductive than ever. Users ...

Credit: Getty Images Experts weigh in on the increasing use of AI chatbots in mental health treatment, sharing insights on the ways they may be effective, or not, in clinical practice. As the ...

People with mental illness who use AI chatbots risk experiencing a worsening of their condition. This is shown by a new study published in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. The researchers ...

Apple is planning to allow third party AI chatbots to integrate with Siri, while a new study finds that chatbots are decieving human users ...

When people first encounter systems like ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI chatbots, they usually think of them as tools; sophisticated ones, perhaps, but still just software. Yet after interacting with ...