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.

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

Although it does not have any direct connection with “Companion,” this sense of adoration for a form of AI is similar to a real-life situation from October 2024, when 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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