How chatbot tools use psychological strategies to engage and ensnare us, and other tales of "large language manipulators." ...

New research suggests that chatbots still don’t measure up to humans when it comes to connection and well-being.

When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just ...

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TO LOOK OUT FOR YOUR LOVED ONES. PSYCHOLOGISTS SAY MORE PEOPLE ARE CONNECTING WITH ROBOTS FOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. THEY ACKNOWLEDGE IT’S BECAUSE OF A LACK OF ACCESS TO THERAPY. BUT AS KETV NEWSWATCH ...

New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble. A Vals AI employee using Claude Code to debug A.I. agents.Credit...Video by Manuel Orbegozo ...

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Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. A Linux terminal runs the OpenClaw platform. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Recent AI progress can be divided into roughly three phases. First we had ...

For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...

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 ...