With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

AI chatbots are supposed to be helpful. A new Stanford study suggests they can be dangerous. Researchers analyzed 391,562 messages across 4,761 conversations from 19 users who reported psychological ...

Sure, when chatbots aren’t outright hallucinating, they can be helpful tools for gathering information, generating ideas, and completing tasks. But some of the biggest players in the AI chatbot ...

Here’s the question nobody’s asking but everybody should be: When you ask an AI for the truth, whose truth are you getting? Researchers at MIT, the University of East Anglia and a dozen other ...

Consumers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for health information, a new report from Rock Health says. Thirty-two percent of respondents in the 2025 Consumer Adoption of ...

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is ...

After her 14-year-old son died, Megan Garcia discovered he had formed a deep bond with an AI chatbot. In her grief, she turned not away from faith, but more deeply towards it. Show more When Megan ...

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The dark web is rammed full of illegal and dangerous content—but chances are you won't encounter it unless you go looking. However, even if you're not actively looking for trouble, there are still ...

Apple has integrated OpenAI’s ChatGPT into CarPlay with the latest iOS 26.4 update, making it the first major AI chatbot integration into Apple's in-car system. Users can now leverage the ...

Recent discussions of conversational artificial intelligence have raised serious questions about mental health. For some people who use these systems regularly, the interaction can feel meaningful and ...