AI companies have made a big to-do about their chatbots providing a personalized experience for users, conversations based on their unique preferences and idiosyncrasies. So why do people keep ...

The AI industry will tell you it wants to make AI chatbots more ‘human.’ Why? Because tricking you into a state of hyper-attention is good for business.

Remember when the iPhone first came out? It was 2007 and early smartphone adopters jumped at the opportunity to take advantage of the novel technology. Yet, these early adopters represented a tiny ...

The legislation is aimed at protecting children from harmful interaction with AI chatbots.

A few minutes with a chatbot may be enough to make it seem more mind-like. New research explores why humans start seeing ...

I rina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Chatbots are here, integrated more and more into many people’s ...

With hundreds of millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, it was only a matter of time before tech companies began offering programs specifically designed to answer health questions.