Dozens of cases have recently emerged of people suffering from delusional psychosis after engaging in conversations with ChatGPT or other AI chatbots.

Young people are increasingly turning to AI “companion” chatbots to meet their emotional needs. But a new study shows that these chatbots, which are designed to mimic real social relationships, may ...

Top psychiatrists are increasingly associating prolonged, delusion-filled interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots to instances of psychosis.

Anish Mehta, a computer science engineer, grew up in a culture that he said did not address mental health concerns even when he knew he could have benefitted from therapy. So when he was searching for ...

Risks posed by unregulated chatbots include misdiagnoses, privacy violations, inappropriate treatments, and exploitation. Still, as mental health care becomes harder to access, people are turning to ...

Chatbots may be contributing to a wider distrust in democratic institutions, new report finds. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images LLMs — the data models powering your favorite AI ...

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) ...

I was recently interviewed for an article on the emotional connection that people can develop with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. 1 Here's an edited summary of the exchange. As a psychiatrist, ...