It’s no joke. Sycophantic AI models are pushing naive users toward acts of violence and self-harm.

Disagree Bot is an AI chatbot built by Brinnae Bent, AI and cybersecurity professor at Duke University and director of Duke's TRUST Lab. She built it as a class assignment for her students and let me ...

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.

Chatbot romances are no longer sci-fi. MIT researchers say the growing trend poses risks like grief, dependency and loneliness that need safeguards.

There are differences in how men and women use ChatGPT too. Users with feminine names are more likely to use it for writing and practical guidance, while users with masculine names are more likely to ...

Every day, people turn to AI chatbots for companionship, support, and even romance. The hard part, new research suggests, is turning away.

One of the first randomized controlled trials assessing the effectiveness of a large language model (LLM) chatbot ‘Amanda’ for relationship support shows that a single session of  chatbot therapy can ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Downing, University of Mississippi (THE CONVERSATION) It is a sad fact of online ...