Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a ...

Nationally weighted 2025 survey estimated 19.2% of US youth (≈8.2 million) have sought mental health advice from AI chatbots, up from 13.1% in 2024. Use intensity was meaningful: 42.8% engaged at ...

Dr. Matthew Leahy, a licensed psychologist, treats adolescents who've developed such an intense relationship with an artificial intelligence chatbot that they stop confiding in their parents.

Last year, a survey from Common Sense Media found 72 percent of teens have used an AI companion at least once. Half are regular users. And it’s not just kids. A 2025 Harvard Business Review article ...

With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

When you interact with a chatbot, there’s a good chance that everything you say, and every prompt you give, isn’t just used to generate replies to your queries. Nearly every chatbot company on the ...

As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. “Millions of people turn to ChatGPT with money-related questions, from ...

Increasingly, teens and adults are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for companionship and emotional support, recent studies and surveys show. And so, mental health care providers should ...