Chatbots may worsen delusions in people by reinforcing false beliefs, psychiatrists warn. Mental health experts document cases where AI strengthened distorted thinking.

Researchers Warn AI Systems Create ‘Technosocial Harms’ Through Unchecked Rumors In A Nutshell AI systems may spread negative evaluations between themselves through shared training data, creating a rumor mill that operates without human oversight.

Chatbots are making amateur lawyers and doctors out of everyone. The real professionals have second opinions about it.

Newspapers these days are filled with some scary stories that tell of terrorism and rampant violence, hunger and extreme weather and divisive political issues. Last weekend, ours published perhaps the most concerning story to come across the wires in ...

Librarians say they’re facing an increasing number of requests to search for reference documents that don’t exist as the use of artificial intelligence chatbots increases.

Rural Indiana resident Jim Moore's closest connections are sexy chatbots modeled after real women. He was unaware that his favorite AI companion is based on an alleged criminal.

Chatbots consistently overestimate how strategic humans are, leading them to make decisions that look smart in theory but perform poorly.

The question of how your company can use these generative AI models as part of daily business operations without exposing it to legal risks is already being asked. So the big, tricky, legal question emerging from the new research is: Are chatbots sort of ...

Chatbots increasingly bridge the gap between gaming and the broader digital world. Plenty of players use bots to discover new trailers, track sales, or get summaries of patch notes. In practice, they act as digital concierges, shaping the information players encounter and when they encounter it.