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 ...

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 ...

Witness to ICE agents: 'you shot her in the f**king face'; says: 'I can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further' ...

Dr. David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University, joins The Lead to explain his interactions with an AI chatbot he was hired to test before its public release. The Social Security math just ...

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Gabriel J.X. Dance ...

Every business seems to think that its customers want more AI. Yelp is the latest to add more artificial intelligence tools. The review site has upgraded its Yelp Assistant, an agentic AI chatbot, to ...

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 ...

Students who use AI tools extensively may struggle with knowledge retention, according to new research. Brazilian social scientist Andre Barcaui looked at two groups of students, one using ChatGPT as ...

Building your first website doesn’t have to start with blank screens or complicated tools. With Microsoft Copilot, you can move faster through planning, writing, and even basic layout or code—while ...

As AI use increases among patients, researchers said the role of a physician “may shift” from a primary source of information to more of a guiding presence. (Sandwish/GettyImages) Consumers are ...