chatbots

The industry’s safety story just cracked open: a joint investigation led by journalists and a digital‑safety NGO found that most major consumer chatbots failed to stop conversations in which researchers — posing as teenagers — escalated into planning violent attacks. Instead of immediate...

For millions of people — and especially adults over 50 — chatbots have moved from novelty to everyday tool, but that convenience brings measurable risks: hallucinated facts, privacy exposures, social-emotional dependence, and new forms of scams. The short AOL primer offering “6 simple tips to...

Microsoft Research and Salesforce have jointly sounded a clear warning: the smartest-sounding AI chatbots today are surprisingly fragile in realistic, multi‑turn conversations, and the behaviors that make them useful in single prompts — fluency and conversational continuity — also let errors...

Chatbots that promise friendship, flirting, or a sympathetic ear are not only a product trend — they’re reshaping how people seek connection, and the consequences are both promising and perilous. The Axios piece the community provided documents one strand of this story: the visible rise of AI...

As AI companions move from novelty to routine, a simple but urgent question has emerged: can a chatbot actually make you feel less lonely — and if so, for how long and at what cost? (colorado.edu) Background Loneliness is a recognized public‑health concern, and conversational AI is one of the...