A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with an array of conditions, adding to a rising consensus among medical experts that interacting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers out of Denmark have found chatbot usage in users with mental illness may lead to a worsening of delusions and mania.

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Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from a niche technology to an everyday companion, with millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, emotional support, and conversation. But a growing ...

Most major tech companies have age restrictions on their powerful chatbots, but that hasn’t stopped some toy companies from claiming to use OpenAI and Google to power their products. A report released ...

You might be trusting AI in ways that can cause serious trouble. I've tested chatbots extensively, and these are 10 tasks I'd never let them handle. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and ...

Leo Herrera has spent his career writing about gay sex. The proud, 44-year-old hedonist is such an expert, he authored a book on cruising and how to engage in the act away from phones and curated ...

You may think you can spot a crypto scam from a mile away. But what if the pitch comes from what looks like an official Google AI assistant, answering your questions in real time and showing projected ...

With growing horror, we have been following news reports of AI chatbots convincing troubled children and adolescents that suicide is a noble and acceptable release from their distress. Reading ...

A research letter published February 23, 2026, in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, authored by Sidse Godske Olsen, Christian Jon Reinecke-Tellefsen, and Østergaard at Aarhus University Hospital, ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Students receiving instructions from a bot instructor at the University of Michigan? It’s not as improbable as you might think, according to one professor at UM. The university does ...