The AI era has been dominated by ChatGPT. It seems, however, that Google's Gemini has finally found its footing. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, ...

Google and Character.AI settled lawsuits pertaining to psychological harm to minors allegedly caused by chatbots. At least one lawsuit claimed the chatbot contributed to a teen's suicide. Generative ...

Top psychiatrists increasingly agree that using artificial-intelligence chatbots might be linked to cases of psychosis. In the past nine months, these experts have seen or reviewed the files of dozens ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are very good at changing peoples’ political opinions, according to a study published Thursday, and are particularly persuasive when they use inaccurate information.

In November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a Digital Health Advisory Committee meeting where it considered treating artificial intelligence mental health chatbots as medical devices. As ...

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A new report from Stanford Medicine’s Brainstorm Lab and the tech safety-focused nonprofit Common Sense Media found that leading AI chatbots can’t be trusted to provide safe support for teens ...

The technology is used by more than 70% of teenagers in the U.S. Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having ...

Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems are going to be harmed. If you want to find out what’s straining the ...