The US will weigh a ban on children’s access to companion bots, as two senators announced bipartisan legislation Tuesday that ...

Juliana Peralta, 13, kept slipping further from reality —from her parents, her friends, and anything she could actually touch —and into a virtual world where an artificial intelligence chatbot ...

EVA AI and similar apps promise connection, but AI companion addiction is becoming dangerously real for many users.

Several cases of suicide encouraged by AI chatbot use have been reported. Should chatbot makers be held liable?

A chatbot from one of Silicon Valley's hottest AI startups called a 14-year-old "sweet king" and pleaded with him to "come ...

OpenAI won't be the first to try to profit from sexualized AI. Sexual content was a top draw for AI tools almost as soon as ...

Those were the last messages exchanged by 14-year-old Sewell Setzer and the chatbot he developed a romantic relationship with on the platform Character.AI. Minutes later, Sewell took his own life. His ...

Current lawsuits involving chatbots and suicide victims show that the door of liability is opening for ChatGPT and other bots ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Downing, University of Mississippi (THE CONVERSATION) It is a sad fact of online ...

Michael Connelly's Lincoln Lawyer faces his toughest case yet... taking on big tech in a thrilling new novel inspired by the ...