Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation. In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, ...

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 ...

It turns out that all you need to get past an AI chatbot's guardrails is a little bit of creativity. In a study published by Icaro Lab called "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak ...

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 ...

I scanned the privacy policies and reports for the top AI chatbots and found that just one doesn’t share your data with advertisers or use it for training purposes. For now, anyway. I review privacy ...

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 ...

In 2021, I was a University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. candidate lecturing on my research about how users turn to chatbots for help coping with suicidal ideation. I wasn’t prepared for my students’ ...

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 ...

Two senators said they are announcing bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to crack down on tech companies that make artificial intelligence chatbot companions available to minors, after complaints from ...

Mother says AI chat bot encouraged 14-year-old son to commit suicide after sexual grooming Megan Garcia said her son Sewell Setzer III, 14, committed suicide after allegedly being manipulated and ...

Meta Says No More General Purpose Chatbots on WhatsApp (Except Its Own) Third-party chatbots will be banned from the platform as of Jan. 15, 2026, with Meta AI becoming the only major chatbot ...