Does media coverage reflect the true risks of generative AI for our mental health? Our team recently led a study examining how global media are reporting on the impact of generative AI chatbots on ...

While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs — also known as AI sycophancy — a new study by Stanford computer scientists ...

Whether you love it or avoid it, here’s how to make the tech work for you—and what to watch out for These days, artificial intelligence (AI) is showing up everywhere in our daily lives, from ...

Choosing an AI chatbot used to be a simple technical preference. But after OpenAI partnered with the U.S. Defense Department following Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon, some consumers began ...

Teachers already struggle to manage divisive classroom conversations. Artificial intelligence tools—notably the chatbots that students use—may make the problem worse. AI chatbots’ tendency to flatter ...

Large language model (LLM) chatbots have a tendency toward flattery. If you ask a model for advice, it is 49 percent more likely than a human, on average, to affirm your existing point of view rather ...

Abstract: As the volume of scholarly articles grows exponentially, the ability to efficiently discover and filter relevant research becomes critical. This study explores the design and evaluation of a ...

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With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

Back in 2024, Humane hoped to upend our dependence on smartphone screens with its Ai Pin. Instead, the perfunctory pin and its overheating shell set a harsh tone for all future wearable AI doohickeys.

I’m brilliant, creative, generous and hardworking. Or so AI keeps telling me. Thanks to what’s known as “AI sycophancy”—the tendency of our robot underlords to tell us only what we want to hear, as ...