AI designed to mimic human interaction can exploit weaknesses in our minds and emotions—with catastrophic consequences.

DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot on everybody’s lips and is currently sitting at the top of Apple’s App Store in the US and the UK. A completely free AI model built by a Chinese start-up, DeepSeek wants ...

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

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

The app’s “DeepThink” mode responds to every query with the text, “Thinking…,” followed by a string of updates that read like the chatbot talking to itself as it figures out its final ...

A chatbot powered by artificial intelligence now helps do that work. Over the last two years, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed a tool that allows analysts to talk to virtual versions of ...

The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics ...

Defining AI chatbot personality could be based on how a bot “feels” about itself or on how a person feels about the bot they’re interacting with.

The idea of ranking AI models has been thrown into dispute after new research shows it’s simple to fix the results—and boost ...