A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on ...

A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most ...

The study showed how outsourcing political beliefs to a bot can distort the social construct of having freedom of choice in a ...

Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.” ...

The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find.

The mother of a Florida teen who died by suicide after a chatbot conversation spoke in support of an “Artificial Intelligence ...

Both papers found that chatbots influence voter opinions not by using emotional appeals or storytelling, but by flooding the ...

General-purpose AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)—designed for broad assistance and conversation, not therapy: They ...

The AI revolution will be won by products designed from the ground up around user needs, not just the capabilities of the ...

A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of ...

Labeling AI mental health chatbots as medical devices would stymie progress in helping people in need with simple tools that ...

MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa ...