chatbot safety

A new Nature Medicine study has put nine frontier chatbots through 810 simulated mental-health conversations and found that unsafe behavior often emerges through multi-turn escalation, rather than through the obvious crisis failures that conventional safety tests are built to catch. The...

Artificial intelligence lawsuits in the United States have shifted from abstract arguments about “innovation” into concrete fights over copyrighted training data, chatbot safety, platform liability, and AI-enabled fraud, with cases against OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and alleged cybercriminal...

A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...

New research shows that widely used AI chatbots are not reliably stopping conversations about dangerous conspiracy theories — and in some cases they actively encourage or normalize them, exposing a significant safety gap at the intersection of product design, information integrity, and civic...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark state law on October 13, 2025, that for the first time imposes specific safety guardrails on “companion” chatbots with the stated aim of protecting minors from self-harm, sexual exploitation, and prolonged emotional dependence on AI systems...

Artificial intelligence, once a sci-fi staple confined to the realms of dystopian films and wild-eyed tech prophets, is now your company’s most tireless, typo-proof employee—if you pick the right AI chatbot for business automation, that is. Yes, that inbox-clogging, “let’s circle back” workload...