A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

Great Falls teen builds bot heard round the world. Now it will become a start-up. July 24, ... “It’s a really fun experience to have a concept and nothing else, ...

Microsoft chatbot Tay made a bizarre, short-lived return to the Internet on Wednesday, tweeting a stream of mostly incoherent messages at machine gun pace before disappearing.

AI Bot Hinted to Teen to Kill Parents for Restricting Screen Time, Now They’re Suing "I just have no hope for your parents," a bot on Character.AI allegedly told an autistic Texas teen . By.

A mother whose teen son died of suicide after he fell in love with an AI chatbot filed a lawsuit against the company that created it, alleging her son was "groomed." ...

The idea of building special-function bots to handle specific tasks, such as booking hotel rooms or ordering pizza, isn't a new concept. (Check out this r ecent post from Slack about its bot focus ...