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 ...

Consumers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for health information, a new report from Rock Health says. Thirty-two percent of respondents in the 2025 Consumer Adoption of ...

It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language ...

A teen's fake chatbot site has 25 million visitors and hints at the next backlash against an internet stuffed with AI slop.

With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

Media coverage of AI companions taps into two primary fears. One is that young people will replace human friendships with AI.

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. An analysis of hundreds ...

Younger Americans are more likely to use social media at least sometimes for health information than their older peers.

Sure, when chatbots aren’t outright hallucinating, they can be helpful tools for gathering information, generating ideas, and completing tasks. But some of the biggest players in the AI chatbot ...

Here’s the question nobody’s asking but everybody should be: When you ask an AI for the truth, whose truth are you getting? Researchers at MIT, the University of East Anglia and a dozen other ...

Is your AI assistant quietly sabotaging you? New research shows that chatbots are judging users based on rigid, mechanical ...