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 ...

An advocacy group said its study of 10 artificial intelligence chatbots found that most of them gave at least some help to users planning violent attacks and that nearly all failed to discourage users ...

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 ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

The company suspended the killer’s ChatGPT account over a policy violation in June, eight months before the attacks in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. By Vjosa Isai Reporting from Toronto Canadian ...

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Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study ...

AI agents are everywhere right now. They write emails, draft code, summarise documents, and promise to make work faster and smarter. From boardrooms to classrooms, the hype makes it sound like ...

“You’re not crazy,” the chatbot reassured the young woman. “You’re at the edge of something.” She was no stranger to artificial intelligence, having worked on large language models — the kinds of ...

As corporate consolidation and ideological capture continue to wreak havoc on journalism across the world, some might be wondering if the dire media landscape could get any worse. To answer that ...