STAT

Voice-first chatbots will exacerbate AI’s mental health threat

Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...
STAT

Hospitals roll out chatbots, looking to reclaim their role in patients’ health conversations

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...
The New York Times

Patients Are Using Chatbots to Fight Medical Bills, With Mixed Results

While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice. By Sarah Kwon As chatbots become a fixture in ...
ZDNet

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

All chatbots are engineered to have a persona or play a character. Fulfilling the character can make bots do bad things. Using a chatbot as the paradigm for AI may have been a mistake. Chatbots such ...
Post and Courier

‘Laid low in Ohio’: SC poet laureate tweaks lyrics to potential state song at lawmakers’ request

COLUMBIA — Adios to the señoritas. A country tune about South Carolina being better than heaven is close to becoming South Carolina’s third official state song after getting a lyrics change — while ...
The New York Times

Your Chatbot Isn’t a Therapist

Dr. Saini is a psychiatrist and Dr. Bailen is a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. As the use of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini has surged, we’ve heard about ...
The Atlantic

Friendship, on Demand

The robots befriended us remarkably fast. Over the past year or two, AI has become not just a utilitarian tool but a technology that many people are turning to for connection and emotional support.
Wired

Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to launch phishing attacks and commit fraud. Since Sears is still a trusted ...
CNET

AI Chatbots Are Making People All Think the Same, Study Says

Part of what makes us human is the unique way we think and solve problems. But using large language models like ChatGPT might be eroding this uniqueness and leading humans to think and communicate the ...
Psychology Today

When Chatbots Can Start to Seem Like They Have Minds

When people first encounter systems like ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI chatbots, they usually think of them as tools; sophisticated ones, perhaps, but still just software. Yet after interacting with ...
CBS News

Google faces first lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot encouraged a Florida man to commit suicide

Google is facing a new federal lawsuit from the family of a man who died by suicide after allegedly being influenced by Gemini, the company's artificial intelligence chatbot. The lawsuit is the first ...