An AI-powered chatbot developed by computer scientists at Keele University has the potential to "transform" mental health care by removing existing barriers to mental health support, the researchers ...

Research shows that AI companions can help lonely individuals, at least in the short term. A 2022 study found that ...

Layla aims to be a friend for girls and teens when it comes to sexual health. The online character is a chatbot that responds ...

Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.

Researchers prepared couples-therapy scenarios and then had responses—from experienced therapists and the AI chatbot—rated by ...

AI chatbots can offer helpful quitting advice to smokers more often than not. But as per research, they still serve ...

A study showed that chatbots alone outperformed doctors when making nuanced clinical decisions, but when supported by artificial intelligence, doctors performed as well as the chatbots.

In a recent test with both DeepSeek (started by a hedge fund and based in China) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the answers to moral ...

A study showed that chatbots alone outperformed doctors when making nuanced clinical decisions, but when supported by artificial intelligence, doctors performed as well as the chatbots.

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

First, know that chatbots – ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, and others – are an immensely powerful type of AI ...