While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the ...

The Young People's is also pushing for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to classify chatbots offering therapy services ...

Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning ...

The AI companion market has transformed what other applications might consider a bug—AI’s tendency toward sycophancy—into its ...

A user interacts with a smartphone app to customise an avatar for a personal AI chatbot, known as a Replika, in San Francisco ...

Last year, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after spending months frequently chatting with an AI companion ...