“Children using AI companion chatbots today have no guarantee that the platform they’re talking to won’t push them toward ...

Generative AI is designed to please humans, but maybe not in the case of customer service chatbots dealing with angry ...

Chinese AI companies are focused less on being cutting edge and more on attracting customers. That means holiday promotions, ...

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how ...

Participants in the new study, which was published today in Science, preferred the sycophantic AI models to other models that ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice ...

Artificial intelligence tools—notably the chatbots that students use—may make the problem worse. AI chatbots’ tendency to ...

A chatbot might know what’s wrong with you, but when people try to use them to understand symptoms, they may end up no closer ...

This infographic shows the share of U.S. adults who say they turn to a selection of sources first for information about breaking news, in percent.

Artificial intelligence chatbots feed into humans’ desire for flattery and approval at an alarming rate and it’s leading the bots to give bad — even harmful — advice and making users self-absorbed, a ...

Skeptics caution that artificial intelligence can not replicate the empathy and personalized support of a human counselor.