As chatbot companion regulations are proposed across the U.S., an MSU professor is sounding an alarm: many of those policies ...

It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language ...

Is Character.AI addictive? A new study analyzes teen "overreliance" on AI companions, identifying patterns of withdrawal and ...

Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide in February 2024 after corresponding with an AI-companion chatbot, according to her testimony and a later lawsuit against Character ...

Mental health experts and social scientists have flagged an epidemic of loneliness in contemporary society, triggering searches for potential solutions. A new study has found that people feel less ...

Washington state has joined a handful of other states with laws that require disclosure to consumers if they are interacting ...

Millions of americans are turning to a-i for emotional therapy.a recent report in jama, found about 13-percent of young ...

Falling in love with a robot was once a sci-fi movie plot. Now, it’s a data point. As AI seeps into every part of our lives, once-novel use cases are now becoming ordinary, signaling a shift from ...

Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous ...