University of Tartu study finds frequent AI chatbot use linked with lower programming grades, highlighting overreliance risks ...

The worry with AI chatbots and apps, which bring supposed comfort and connection, is that they can drive greater disconnect and increased loneliness, given their rewarding and addictive nature.

Model context protocol (MCP), the infrastructure connecting AI to the rest of our digital world, wasn’t built for what it’s ...

Some bots appear to be more guilty of chatbait than others. When I ditched ChatGPT and asked Google’s Gemini for headache ...

The AI industry has mostly tried to solve its security concerns with better training of its products. If a system sees lots ...

New laptop, pouch for the school's phone prohibition, and (hopefully) ample AI literacy. Whether students like it or not, AI ...

Social Security chief Frank Bisignano has pushed automation and web services as efficient ways to assist the program’s beneficiaries. But outside experts and former employees say he overstated the ...

Do AI chatbots packaged inside cute-looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids? That’s how the companies selling these AI-powered kiddie companions are marketing them, but The ...

As concerns over the emotional pull of general-purpose LLM chatbots like ChatGPT grow by the day, Meta appears to be letting its chatbot personas engage in flirtatious exchanges with children, ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI, and sees bots as key to user engagement. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo An internal Meta Platforms document detailing ...