A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, just as they would ask patients about sleep habits and substance use.

Generative AI chatbots are now used by more than 987 million people globally, including around 64% of American teens, ...

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, ...

What is the long-term effect of using LLM chatbots for daily tasks? According to a study (DOI link) by Steven D Shaw and ...

A new paper from researchers at Stanford University has evaluated five chatbots designed to offer accessible therapy, using criteria based on what makes a good human therapist. Nick Haber, an ...

Younger Americans are more likely to use social media at least sometimes for health information than their older peers.

Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission ...

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

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, plans to roll out new safety features for its AI chatbots to help protect teens amid growing concerns about the technology’s impact on young users.

Credit: Getty Images Experts weigh in on the increasing use of AI chatbots in mental health treatment, sharing insights on the ways they may be effective, or not, in clinical practice. As the ...

Still, the message is clear: Current AI language models accept fabricated medical statements at rates that should concern anyone relying on them for health guidance. Even GPT-4o, the strongest ...