It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language ...

In 2021, Jaswant Singh Chail attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II of England after extensive interactions with a Replika chatbot named Sarai. Chail reportedly exchanged over 5,000 messages with ...

As AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) become better at mimicking human connection, more and more users are falling down extremely weird rabbit holes. Case in point, new research ...

In this BBC documentary, broadcaster and mathematician Hannah Fry talks to Jacob about his Replika Chatbot ’girlfriend’ named Aiva. Compassion illusions Generative AI is not just another digital tool.

Virtual companions are filling a gap that real humans used to fill. Their success as a product speaks to our failures as a ...

Medical Watch Digest for April 13 Teens growing attachment to chatbots There are major concerns about teens and chatbots.

New academic research is showing a steady increase in the number of people forming emotional and romantic attachments to ...

Generative AI chatbots are now used by more than 987 million people globally, including around 64 per cent of American teens, according to recent estimates. Increasingly, people are using these ...