Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in ...

A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of ...

The study showed how outsourcing political beliefs to a bot can distort the social construct of having freedom of choice in a ...

Riddle-like poems tricked chatbots into spewing hate speech and helping design nuclear weapons and nerve agents. It turns out ...

Voters change their opinions after interacting with an AI chatbot – but it seems that AIs rely on facts to influence people ...

A short interaction with a chatbot can meaningfully shift a voter's opinion about a presidential candidate or proposed policy ...

The most persuasive bots don’t need to tell the best story or cater to a person’s individual beliefs, researchers report in a related paper in Science. Instead, they simply dole out the most ...

While the researchers found that the bots were largely unsuccessful in either increasing or decreasing a person’s likelihood ...

New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

Labeling AI mental health chatbots as medical devices would stymie progress in helping people in need with simple tools that ...

General-purpose AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)—designed for broad assistance and conversation, not therapy: They ...

About 1 in 8 adolescents and young adults in the U.S. are using AI chatbots for mental health advice, according to a new ...