AI designed to mimic human interaction can exploit weaknesses in our minds and emotions—with catastrophic consequences.

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

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The Gates Foundation and other donors from the AI for Development Funders Collaborative are pledging $10 million to ensure AI ...

Investors dumped technology stocks in premarket trading Monday, sending U.S. indexes sharply lower after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek demonstrated a chatbot that it says rivals ...

Unlike typical AI chatbots, SoulGen allows you to create ... Did I mention this platform is steamy? With the girls mirroring their real-life counterparts and engaging in hot sexting, AI phone ...

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Peaches, as the 35-year-old sex worker asked to be identified, is among the more than a third of South African women that ...

Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.

Some European alternatives are making waves. For example, last week’s update for the France-based AI chatbot Le Chat ...

in part by dazzling the public with a free version of the hottest idea in AI — a chatbot that “thinks” before answering a user’s question. The app’s “DeepThink” mode responds to ...