AI chatbots feed off your data. In most cases, your data is used to personalize future responses, but some companies use the information to train their AI. Others sell that data to advertisers. With ...

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 ...

New data suggests government workers don’t like Elon Musk’s chatbot. Does anybody? New data suggests government workers don’t like Elon Musk’s chatbot. Does anybody? is a London-based reporter at The ...

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 ...

Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...

Last spring, Florida State University student Phoenix Ikner wanted to know how many classmates he needed to kill to become notorious. ChatGPT responded with a metric. “Usually 3 or more dead, 5-6 ...

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 ...

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a ...

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 ...