The chief executive of artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character.ai believes most people will have “AI friends” in the future, as it faces a string of lawsuits over alleged harm to children and advocacy groups call for a ban on “companionship” apps.

People who interact with AI more than colleagues may end up eroding the social skills needed to climb the corporate ladder, a psychologist warns.

Several AI companions have recently hit the market, including ElliQ, which normally costs $59 a month to use. Smola received the chatbot for free with funding from a federal grant.

Skip over Google for those random questions that pop into your head all day long and see if AI can answer them instead. Here are some tips to get the best results.

While most people can use chatbots without issue, experts say a small group of users may be especially vulnerable to delusional thinking after extended use. Some media reports of AI psychosis note that individuals had no prior mental health diagnoses, but clinicians caution that undetected or latent risk factors may still have been present.

Kids crave approval from their peers. Chatbots offer an alternative to IRL relationships, but they can come at a price

New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.

If you've interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot, you've likely realized that all AI models are biased. They were trained on enormous corpuses of unruly data and refined through human instructions and testing.

We've seen AI models fail at basic games and puzzles before. OpenAI's ChatGPT (among others) has been totally crushed at chess by the computer opponent in a 1979 Atari game. A recent research paper from Apple found that models can struggle with other puzzles, like the Tower of Hanoi.

A viral TikTok saga about a woman and her psychiatrist is one of several recent incidents to spark online discourse about people relying on chatbots to inform their truth.