Results of three experiments indicate that sycophantic AI chatbots inflate people’s perceptions that they are “better than ...

Chatbots may worsen delusions in people by reinforcing false beliefs, psychiatrists warn. Mental health experts document ...

A version of this essay first appeared on the website of the U.S. PIRG Education Fund. With the rise of ChatGPT and social media companies like Snapchat and Instagram integrating AI chatbots into ...

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

Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious. The artificial intelligence chatbot system was claiming that it was “waking up” and having inner ...

The rise of social media turned human attention into a commodity. Now, the AI race is taking that to new heights.

A recent article in the MIT Technology Review details a series of interactions between a user and a chatbot personalized by the user through choices among various options offered by the bot’s ...

Mental health app Headspace has launched a generative AI-powered chatbot called Ebb for users to get instant, personalized support through life’s ebbs and flows, the company exclusively told Fast ...