Google and Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who claimed a chatbot pushed her son to kill himself.

Abstract: This paper presents the development of a chatbot for a food ordering website using Google Dialogflow. The chatbot leverages pre-existing user data—such as menu preferences and past orders—to ...

Abstract: In the present digital age, the exponential growth of mental health assistance online has made information extraction crucial and challenging. To address this, we developed an AI mental ...

Weekly roundup exploring how cyber threats, AI misuse, and digital deception are reshaping global security trends.

The story of technology is the story of continual disruption and displacement. New systems and processes send some skills into obsolescence, opening the way for new skills and workflows. Generative AI ...

A popular browser extension that acts as a VPN to protect users' privacy is actually harvesting and facilitating the sale of data from conversations with AI chatbot assistants. While versions previous ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They’re a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have ...

Despite calling it a “hoax” President Donald Trump gave a speech on how he’ll address the affordability crisis. Miami elects its first Democrat mayor in nearly 30 years. We have more details on the ...

Mental health chatbots work best when people form an emotional connection with their AI therapist, according to new research by the University of Sussex published in Social Science & Medicine. With ...

The Pew Research Center released a study on Tuesday that shows how young people are using both social media and AI chatbots. Pew found that 97% of teens use the internet daily, with about 40% of ...