I had ChatGPT build me a free PDF editor because I didn't trust it to change my files - it worked!

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it touch your files, but asking it to write software that handles them safely - ...
STAT

Voice-first chatbots will exacerbate AI’s mental health threat

Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...
STAT

Hospitals roll out chatbots, looking to reclaim their role in patients’ health conversations

Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians, and businesses. Her stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer ...
Wall Street Journal

How to Switch AI Chatbots—and Why You Might Want To

It might be time to break up with your chatbot. The reasons for moving on—or at least trying a new one—are piling up fast. Companies are constantly releasing new AI models with more powerful ...
Wired

The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat

The US Army is developing AI models trained on data from real missions, with the goal of deploying a chatbot specifically for soldiers. “We have all of these lessons learned from missions like the ...
CNBC

'I hate customer-service chatbots': The consumer-AI refund relationship is off to a rocky start

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo Many consumers say early experiences with customer support chatbots feel more like deflection ...
The New York Times

Your Chatbot Isn’t a Therapist

Dr. Saini is a psychiatrist and Dr. Bailen is a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. As the use of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini has surged, we’ve heard about ...
Computerworld

The dark side of chatbots with ‘personality’

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. They say you can find anything on Amazon. Now, ...
CNET

AI Chatbots Are Making People All Think the Same, Study Says

Part of what makes us human is the unique way we think and solve problems. But using large language models like ChatGPT might be eroding this uniqueness and leading humans to think and communicate the ...
Engadget

Most AI chatbots will help users plan violent attacks, study finds

Eight of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers, according to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), in ...
Psychology Today

When Chatbots Can Start to Seem Like They Have Minds

When people first encounter systems like ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI chatbots, they usually think of them as tools; sophisticated ones, perhaps, but still just software. Yet after interacting with ...
CNN

What to know before asking an AI chatbot for health advice

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. In ...