Researchers at Stanford and the University of Oregon surveyed a cohort of self-identified lonely Replika users and found that its use was “associated with enhanced human-human interactions for ...

said Linnea Laestadius, a public health professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee who studies the Replika chatbot. “I don’t know that we have a good model for how to solve this ...

Recent research from Drexel University, suggests that exposure to inappropriate ... In the aftermath of reports of sexual harassment by the Luka Inc. chatbot Replika in 2023, researchers from Drexel’s ...

For now, the science remains divided. Stanford University researchers, for instance, find that many Replika users claimed their chatbot had deterred them from committing suicide. On the other hand ...

As AI has gotten smarter, more pervasive and more human-like, chatbots are taking off. Companies like Replika and character.ai invite users to create personalized digital confidants that people can ...

Artificial Intelligence could help students experiencing loneliness be more social and even prevent suicide, according to a study by researchers from Stanford University. May is Mental Health ...

“I think this is unique,” Jesse Fox, a communications professor at Ohio State University, told me. In response to a request for comment for this story, Kuyda, Replika’s founder, sent me a ...

But research carried out at Cardiff University and the University of Surrey concluded apps such as Replika might have negative effects on wellbeing and cause addictive behaviour. Dr Valentina ...

To do this, I created an avatar on the Replika app, which specialises in ... For Florian Cafiero, AI and Human Sciences Fellow at PSL University in Paris, it's actually more a question of habit ...