Artificial intelligence chatbots have entered many teenagers’ daily routines. As many as 64% of U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini, with about 28% saying they use ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S.

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

Chatbots are marketed as great companions, able to answer any question at any time. They’re not just tools, but confidants; they do your homework, write love notes, and, as one recent lawsuit against ...

In the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, more than 2,000 Americans, roughly split across partisan lines, were recruited for an experiment: Could an AI model influence their ...

We’ve heard story after story about people becoming obsessed with AI chatbots and experiencing profound breaks with reality. But there was always an ambiguity: was AI use pushing people into psychosis ...

Teens regularly turn to generative-AI chatbots in search of mental-health support. A report on a study said this practice is one of the most dangerous uses of the technology. Artificial intelligence ...

Chatbots once symbolized digital transformation — those polite text boxes on corporate websites and service portals promised to make support smarter and cheaper. The addition of generative AI (genAI) ...

For all the advances in artificial intelligence over the past few years, even the cleverest chatbots still spout nonsense from time to time. In most cases this is but a mild irritation. Sometimes, ...

Researchers found about 1 in 8 adolescents and young adults are turning to ChatGPT, Gemini, My AI and other types of generative artificial intelligence for advice and help with emotional distress.

The technology is used by more than 70% of teenagers in the U.S. Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having ...

Borisuth is a global medicine scholar and medical student at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a research fellow at Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation. Vasan is a ...