More teens are turning to AI companions for comfort, distraction, and a sense of connection. For some, that comfort seems to ...

It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language ...

Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous ...

In 2022, the founders of chatbot startup Character.AI launched a platform where anyone could create interactive characters powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The app exploded, quickly growing to ...

Google and the artificial intelligence company Character.AI have agreed to settle high-profile lawsuits with families alleging that chatbots on Character’s popular app harmed children, leading two ...

Research shows media coverage of AI chatbot use and mental health focuses on instances of user psychosis and suicide.

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of ...

The blue light of a phone screen casts a faint glow across Sarah’s face. It is well past midnight, but sleep is nowhere in ...

Megan Garcia stands next to a picture of her son Sewell Setzer III. Alphabet’s Google and AI startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a lawsuit by a Florida mother who alleged the startup’s chatbot ...

Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide in February 2024 after corresponding with an AI-companion chatbot, according to her testimony and a later lawsuit against Character ...