In the summer of 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT 5 and removed its predecessor from the market. Many subscribers to the old ...

Dr. Yasam Ayavefe says AI chatbots can change daily encounters. They should strengthen human connections, not replace them.

A recent academic study titled “Love, marriage, pregnancy: Commitment processes in romantic relationships with AI chatbots,” has shed light on the growing trend of humans forming relationships with AI ...

As artificial intelligence 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 ...

New research suggests that chatbots still don’t measure up to humans when it comes to connection and well-being.

Researchers are now showing that artificial intelligence can do something most people never thought about: convincingly act as the user in a conversation. A team from the Technical University of ...

The appeal is almost too clean. Ask for a lover, a therapist, a fictional world, or an answer to an endless chain of ...

A 12-month longitudinal study of adults from four English-speaking countries found that being lonely may spur people to seek ...

New research identifies AI chatbot addiction, highlighting how "agreeable" design and emotional attachments lead to real-world harm.

AI companions can keep the spark alive indefinitely. Before we celebrate that, we need to talk about what that means.