A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.

Leila Turner-Scott reads a conversation her son Sam had with ChatGPT on the day of his death while at her home in Dripping ...
AOL

ChatGPT chatbot’s jaw-dropping response when asked about its alleged role in murder-suicide case

ChatGPT’s chatbot admitted bearing “some responsibility” in the terrifying murder of an elderly Connecticut mom — whose killer son’s paranoid delusions were allegedly fueled by the artificial ...
CNN

Nearly a third of American teens interact with AI chatbots daily, study finds

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...
CBS News

A mom thought her daughter was texting friends before her suicide. It was an AI chatbot.

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...
MIT Technology Review

AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements

A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation. In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, ...
The Atlantic

The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis

Chatbots are marketed as great companions, able to answer any question at any time. They’re not just tools, but confidants; they do your homework, write love notes, and, as one recent lawsuit against ...
Engadget

AI chatbots can be tricked with poetry to ignore their safety guardrails

It turns out that all you need to get past an AI chatbot's guardrails is a little bit of creativity. In a study published by Icaro Lab called "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak ...
The Conversation

AI chatbots are encouraging conspiracy theories – new research

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council through the Australian Laureate Fellowship project Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public ...
Wall Street Journal

Teens Seek Mental-Health Help From Chatbots. That’s Dangerous, Says New Study.

Teens regularly turn to generative-AI chatbots in search of mental-health support. A report on a study said this practice is one of the most dangerous uses of the technology. Artificial intelligence ...
ABC News

AI chatbot dangers: Are there enough guardrails to protect children and other vulnerable people?

The technology is used by more than 70% of teenagers in the U.S. Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having ...
STAT

‘AI psychosis’ discussions ignore a bigger problem with chatbots

In 2021, I was a University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. candidate lecturing on my research about how users turn to chatbots for help coping with suicidal ideation. I wasn’t prepared for my students’ ...