I don’t use AI chatbots, so you might wonder what use I could make of Jamie Bartlett’s book, How to Talk to AI.

Linking Gemini directly to a user's photo library represents a bigger step in the AI chatbot link to private information.

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With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

Media coverage of AI companions taps into two primary fears. One is that young people will replace human friendships with AI.

A teen's fake chatbot site has 25 million visitors and hints at the next backlash against an internet stuffed with AI slop.

Siri has gone from in a relationship with OpenAI to in an open relationship. According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to forgo an exclusive deal with OpenAI to allow Siri to run queries through ...

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Consumers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for health information, a new report from Rock Health says. Thirty-two percent of respondents in the 2025 Consumer Adoption of ...

A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, ...

One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter ...

A new paper in JAMA Psychiatry argues that mental health care providers should ask clients routinely about their use of AI for emotional support and health information.