New research suggests that chatbots still don’t measure up to humans when it comes to connection and well-being.

You may have heard the famous answer to the question, “Why climb a mountain?” (“Because it is there.”) The same could be said about our desire to create programs that can communicate with us in a ...

It is a universal tendency to assign or impute human emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities to nonhuman creatures and things. Owls are “wise.” Swollen rivers are “raging” and “angry.” ...

More teens are turning to AI companions for comfort, distraction, and a sense of connection. For some, that comfort seems to ...

Some experts believe AI companies should explicitly guard against chatbots making these kinds of statements, as neuroscientist Ziv Ben-Zion argued in a recent Nature article. “AI systems must clearly ...

The common thread is not the industry or the task. In every case, the work involves aggregating the data, connecting the ...