As AI chatbots grow into large-scale businesses, companies may use engagement optimization techniques even at the expense of user well-being.

Next time you chat with your favorite AI bot, you shouldn't trust anything it says.

Because chatbots can claim they are conscious, behaving with linguistic intelligence, they have a “marker” for consciousness—a trait requiring further investigation that is not, alone ...

Setting up the chatbot Like any shortcut, there’s no one way to build the AI chatbot. You can get creative and customize it so it functions in whichever way you expect it to.

Over the last five years the use of highly personalized artificial intelligence chatbots — called companion chatbots — designed to act as friends, therapists or even romantic partners has skyrocketed ...

A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

Man Proposed to His AI Chatbot Girlfriend Named Sol, Then Cried His 'Eyes Out' When She Said 'Yes' The man's partner claims she didn't realize his relationship with the chatbot was that "deep" ...

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind Tactics used to make AI tools more engaging can drive chatbots to monopolize users’ time or reinforce harmful ideas.

First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues Feds could censor chatbots if their "speech" isn't protected, Character.AI says.

Elon Musk's xAI chatbot Grok will be available to Telegram users for one year starting sometime in the summer under a deal announced Wednesday. Telegram is a cloud-based social media and instant ...

Meta's AI chatbots are under scrutiny for allowing sexual talk with teens (as the John Cena chatbot, no less). Meta doesn't make money directly from people talking to user-generated AI chatbots ...

But for now, Grok’s antics make clear that the ideal of a “truth-seeking chatbot” remains unfulfilled. How Elon Musk’s ‘truth-seeking’ chatbot lost its way© Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images ...