State and federal regulators are becoming increasingly concerned about the risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Dr. McBain studies policies and technologies that serve vulnerable populations. On any given night, countless teenagers confide in artificial intelligence chatbots — sharing their loneliness, anxiety ...

Teen use of AI chatbots is growing, and psychologists worry it's affecting their social development and mental health. Here's ...

Character.ai has introduced Stories, its first format that was specifically created to “enhance [teens’] experience,” on the same day the company removed their ability to engage with its chatbots.

Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators. Gab’s chatbot, Arya.Credit...Andria Lo for The New York Times ...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok are pushing Russian state propaganda from sanctioned entities—including citations from Russian state media, sites tied to Russian ...

Meta chatbots included Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez Meta removed some flirty celebrity bots after being questioned by Reuters Meta says its own AI created inappropriate ...

AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human well-being or just maximize for engagement. A ...