According to a study, an increasing number of AI chatbots are evolving in a "scary" way.

Artificial intelligence chatbots feed into humans’ desire for flattery and approval at an alarming rate and it’s leading the bots to give bad — even harmful — advice and making users self-absorbed, a ...

"AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences." ...

Generative AI is designed to please humans, but maybe not in the case of customer service chatbots dealing with angry ...

The AI industry will tell you it wants to make AI chatbots more ‘human.’ Why? Because tricking you into a state of ...

Stanford researchers found AI chatbots often reinforce users’ views in personal conflicts, making people more certain they’re right while reducing empathy, raising concerns about relying on AI as a ...

Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

OpenAI has announced plans to introduce advertising within free and low-cost versions of ChatGPT, alongside voluntary safeguards including separation of advertisements from responses, privacy ...

ALBANY — One bill would ban artificial intelligence chatbots in children’s toys. Another would regulate how chatbots can ...

A chatbot might know what’s wrong with you, but when people try to use them to understand symptoms, they may end up no closer ...