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Some suggest that society should urge everyone to do an annual mental health check-up via AI. This is feasible, but is it ...

As AI becomes increasingly more entrenched into our everyday lives, a new survey in the UK has found that nearly a third of children using AI chatbots said that they would describe the technology as ...

A new Pew Research Center survey finds most US teens use AI chatbots for schoolwork, fun, and advice, while holding mixed ...

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has revealed a new trend among users of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. In a recent podcast, he claimed that several AI chatbot users are increasingly using ...

Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing ads in a low-cost tier of ...