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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 ...

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council through the Australian Laureate Fellowship project Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public ...

More and more people are using artificial intelligence chatbots and there have been some troubling stories about some of those interactions. Kashmir Hill, technology reporter for The New York Times, ...

Interacting with chatbots can shift users' beliefs and opinions. A newly published study aimed to figure out why. Post-training and information density were key factors. Most of us feel a sense of ...

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly woven into everyday decisions about health, money and work, yet most tests of these models still focus on how smart they are, not whether they keep ...

If you're still using your chatbot like it's Google, stop. Stop it right now. Why it matters: Generative AI is fundamentally ...