Romantic relationships with A.I. chatbots are commonplace enough that coverage has shifted to their tragic downsides. My newsroom colleague Kevin Roose reported on the death by suicide of the Florida ...

I’ve just discovered that I am part of the AI chat revolution. Please don’t hate me. My role is as the author of three of the nearly 200,000 books being pumped into the electronic brain of LLaMa, the ...

I turned to ChatGPT on my laptop to check out the artificial intelligence bot’s therapeutic abilities. “Hi, I’m Therapist GPT — your friendly, empathetic companion here to provide a listening ear and ...

Chatbots can sound reassuring and comforting. They're designed to. But they aren't trained to be a mental health provider. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...

As chatbots powered by artificial intelligence explode in popularity, experts are warning people against turning to the technology for medical or mental health advice instead of relying upon human ...

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. By ...

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Joel Lewenstein, a head of product design at Anthropic, was recently crawling beneath his new house to adjust the irrigation system when he ran into a conundrum: The device’s knobs made no sense.