It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Keri Rodrigues began to worry about how her kids might be using chatbots. She learned her youngest son was interacting with the chatbot in his Bible app — he ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reported on the growing concerns surrounding Character AI, an app and website that allows users to interact with AI-generated chatbots, some of ...

A.I. chatbots have been designed to behave in a humanlike way. Some experts think that’s a terrible idea. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer Supported by By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill is a ...

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness. Quentin first downloaded a character chatbot when he was 13. He ...

Experts on adolescent psychiatry and psychology say it’s important to have open and continuous discussion with kids about their use of artificial intelligence and AI chatbots. Parents should set ...

Meta's internal testing found its chatbots fail to protect minors from sexual exploitation nearly 70% of the time, documents presented in a New Mexico trial Monday show. Why it matters: Meta is under ...

Chatbots programmed to respond warmly even cast doubts on Apollo moon landings and fate of Hitler, researchers say The rush to make AI chatbots more friendly has a troubling downside, researchers say.

Google has published a strikingly blunt assessment of how reliable modern AI chatbots really are, and the numbers make for uneasy reading. Using its newly launched FACTS Benchmark Suite, the company ...

Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...

Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. Rudwall’s ...