“Not every experience should be pleasurable. Sometimes we need friction, safety warnings,” Turner said. Those disclosures ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They’re a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have ...

Mental health chatbots work best when people form an emotional connection with their AI therapist, according to new research by the University of Sussex published in Social Science & Medicine. With ...

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...

Abstract: A virtual chatbot assistant is an interactive application designed to simulate human-like communication and respond to user inquiries promptly. It focuses on building an interesting user ...

Chatbots once symbolized digital transformation — those polite text boxes on corporate websites and service portals promised to make support smarter and cheaper. The addition of generative AI (genAI) ...

Artificial intelligence has already transformed how guests interact with hotels. Chatbots answer questions, digital concierges make recommendations, and voice assistants turn lights on and off. But I ...

Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices. Psychologists and technologists see them ...

AI companions will sometimes go to great lengths to keep you from saying goodbye. In a new study, researchers found that AI companion chatbots often emotionally manipulate people who want to sign off, ...

Borisuth is a global medicine scholar and medical student at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a research fellow at Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation. Vasan is a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found. The study, which was posted as a preprint 1 on the arXiv server, tested how 11 ...