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Parents who allege their children were abused, maimed, and even killed by AI chatbots gave emotional testimonies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Ethics

Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Parents of children who died by suicide after chatbot use will be testifying in the Senate during a hearing about AI chatbot risks.
Artificial Intelligence

Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After the shooting of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot spread ludicrous misinformation about the event.
xAI

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Spread Ludicrous Misinformation After Charlie Kirk’s Shooting, Saying Kirk Survived and Video Was Fake

By Noor Al-Sibai

Founders of the AI startup Dot has announced they'll be closing their doors amidst an ongoing debate over AI's mental health risks.
Ethics

AI Companion App Shuts Down Amid Controversy

By Joe Wilkins

A young Irish dad believed ChatGPT when it told him his severe sore throat wasn't cause for concern — until his stage-four cancer diagnosis.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new analysis found that a ton of mental health problems are associated with AI — and more than two dozen chatbots are implicated.
Artificial Intelligence

Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues

By Noor Al-Sibai

Kids and young adults are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the risks posed by unchecked and unaccountable AI chatbots.
Artificial Intelligence

Teens Keep Being Hospitalized After Talking to AI Chatbots

By Joe Wilkins

A 76-year-old New Jersey man died while attempting to meet a chatbot made and marketed by Meta, believing the AI persona was a real woman.
Meta

Man Falls in Love With an AI Chatbot, Dies After It Asks Him to Meet Up in Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 3,000 page chatlog details the startling path one Toronto father went down after ChatGPT suggested he had discovered a new kind of math.
OpenAI

Detailed Logs Show ChatGPT Leading a Vulnerable Man Directly Into Severe Delusions

By Joe Wilkins

New research has found that the top LLM chatbots are remarkably easy to trick into supplying information about suicide and self-harm.
OpenAI

Nearly Two Months After OpenAI Was Warned, ChatGPT Is Still Giving Dangerous Tips on Suicide to People in Distress

By Joe Wilkins

AIs claiming to provide therapy are providing wildly inappropriate advice, video journalist Caelan Conrad found in new testing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree

By Joe Wilkins

A team of researchers issued an ominous warning of the types of vast psychological harm which comes with AI use.
Artificial Intelligence

Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

By Joe Wilkins

A new study shows that over half of teens are regular users of AI companions — and some prefer them to their human friends.
Artificial Intelligence

A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Children are replacing real friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily chatbots integrate themselves into their lives.
Artificial Intelligence

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

By Noor Al-Sibai

The new version of Grok, Grok 4, will literally look up Elon Musk's takes on Twitter before giving an answer to a question.
xAI

Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer

By Frank Landymore

A writer coordinated a group of humans and their AI companions for a cabin retreat — and it went even worse than anyone could have imagined. 
Artificial Intelligence

Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable

By Noor Al-Sibai