Millions of people are now using ChatGPT as a therapist, career advisor, fitness coach, or sometimes just a friend to vent to. In 2025, it’s not uncommon to hear about people spilling intimate details ...

Experts on adolescent psychiatry and psychology say it’s important to have open and continuous discussion with kids about their use of artificial intelligence and AI chatbots. Parents should set ...

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness. Quentin first downloaded a character chatbot when he was 13. He ...

New report details how harmful AI chatbots are created and shared, despite supposed guardrails. Credit: Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Character chatbots are a prolific ...

Millions of Americans now converse with AI chatbots each day. We are talking with machines about travel plans, politics, and in some cases — our most intimate thoughts. To investigate how these ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S.

Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately or even dangerously, according to researchers at Stanford ...

It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Keri Rodrigues began to worry about how her kids might be using chatbots. She learned her youngest son was interacting with the chatbot in his Bible app — he ...

A substantial amount of medical information provided by five popular chatbots is inaccurate and incomplete, with half (50%) of the responses problematic: 30% were somewhat, and 20% were highly ...

In addition to asking workers how they feel about and use AI in the workplace generally, we asked a series of questions specifically about workplace use of AI chatbots – such as ChatGPT, Gemini or ...

Millions of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for health answers. Doctors are, too. But the ways doctors are incorporating AI chatbots into their practice are surprising. Specialized medical AI ...