In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

If you’re considering therapy, or if a friend or family member elicits your advice about seeking treatment, should you or ...

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent that connects to email, Slack, calendars and GitHub to automate work tasks ahead ...

We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way into human hearts. In addition to ...

A developer went viral for reconfiguring Chipotle’s customer support bot into a coding assistant, and providing the playbook for others to do the same to other chatbots. Reading time 4 minutes After ...

To protect consumers, New York must require AI programs to warn users that responses from chatbots are not advice from skilled professionals. Credit: Getty Images. A growing number of Americans are ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot for the first time, a key step toward building a business that would help offset hundreds of billions of dollars in ...

Last year, a survey from Common Sense Media found 72 percent of teens have used an AI companion at least once. Half are regular users. And it’s not just kids. A 2025 Harvard Business Review article ...

New data suggests government workers don’t like Elon Musk’s chatbot. Does anybody? New data suggests government workers don’t like Elon Musk’s chatbot. Does anybody? is a London-based reporter at The ...

Trying to remove your personal information from the internet, and out of AI's training data, can be like "trying to remove pee from a pool," one expert said. Corin Cesaric-Epple is an Editor at CNET ...

Dr. David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University, joins The Lead to explain his interactions with an AI chatbot he was hired to test before its public release. Trump hit with grim reality ...