Kaeberlein is co-director of the Dog Aging Project, an ambitious research effort to track the aging process of tens of ...

While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the ...

Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.

When I saw that Headspace had added Ebb, an AI-powered companion, to its membership, I was intrigued. Ebb was built to ...

Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void.

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

Dark Turn Yet another AI companion company is facing concerns over its AI chatbots encouraging human users to engage with ...

Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness , and some are turning to technology to fill ...

AI companions provide a safe space where teens can explore ideas and sort things out, like a journal but with a feedback loop.

Google’s AI now appears like a phone call notification on Android, plus Google adds Gemini 2.0 Pro made for coders.

an AI-driven platform that permits the creation of fictitious character chatbots. These companion chatbots engage in personal ...