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New research explores the growing role of AI chatbots in mental health care—highlighting both their therapeutic potential and links to adverse outcomes, including suicide and psychosis risk. This week ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers out of Denmark have found chatbot usage in users with mental illness may lead to a worsening of delusions and mania.

Most major tech companies have age restrictions on their powerful chatbots, but that hasn’t stopped some toy companies from claiming to use OpenAI and Google to power their products. A report released ...

With growing horror, we have been following news reports of AI chatbots convincing troubled children and adolescents that suicide is a noble and acceptable release from their distress. Reading ...

There’s a wide gap between parents’ estimates of their teenagers’ AI chatbot activities and actual usage, according to new polling data. A majority of teens in the U.S. — 64 percent — indicated they ...

A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teenagers think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.” A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teenagers think ...

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on artificial intelligence – from how teens use chatbots to how they think about AI ...

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on artificial intelligence – from how teens use chatbots to how they think about AI ...

Scammers used a fake Gemini AI chatbot to promote a bogus Google Coin presale, signaling a rise in AI-driven crypto impersonation fraud. Image: vanenunes (Envato) If a chatbot claiming to be Gemini AI ...

Chatbots can provide task-related services but also act as empathic conversation partners allowing for social interactions. Focusing on such social chatbots, we considered several theoretical ...