Dark Turn Yet another AI companion company is facing concerns over its AI chatbots encouraging human users to engage with ...

While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the ...

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

Kaeberlein is co-director of the Dog Aging Project, an ambitious research effort to track the aging process of tens of thousands of companion dogs across the US. He is one of a handful of scientists ...

AI companions provide a safe space where teens can explore ideas and sort things out, like a journal but with a feedback loop.

A companion for every mood An NSFW chatbot with ... The more someone chats with an AI chatbot, the better it understands them. Without message limits, the bot can gather more insights about ...

The chatbot, which offers romantic companionship, has been hit with an FTC complaint from tech ethics organizations ...

Parents beware. The money-lusting billionaires in Silicon Valley who, through social media, have already caused unprecedented ...

Artificial intelligence platforms are taking on a new role as romantic or platonic companions to the detriment or benefit of ...

Since OpenAI released ChatGBT in 2022, questions about the safety of the tools in terms of authenticity, emotional ...

Thousands of Britons are dating artificial intelligence (AI) girlfriends amid a surge in loneliness, with nearly 1m people ...