Researchers looked at what happens when you try to say goodbye to an AI companion. The results can be unsettling.

The paper explains that AI chatbots use data about people's interests and behavior to create personalized messages. This ...

A study in China involving full-time college students with severe loneliness found that continuous interactions with Replika, ...

AI companion apps such as Character.ai and Replika commonly try to boost user engagement with emotional manipulation, a practice that academics characterize as a dark pattern.

It’s a tale as old as time. Looking for help with her art project, she strikes up a conversation with her assistant. One ...

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.

It’s funny to think that just five years ago, we drafted our own emails, researched and wrote our own essays, and leaned on friends and communities to navigate life’s challenges. Today, artificial ...

A new research paper is warning that artificial intelligence is manipulating us with one very human tactic. Researchers from Harvard Business School have dropped a very damning paper on the power of ...

If you’ve chatted with an AI companion lately, you’re not alone—and you’re not imagining the lift. A new paper in the Journal ...

New data reveals that people are getting emotionally attached to AI Chat services, even romantically curious. Regulators are ...

After testing the reMarkable Paper Pro for over a month, I found it to be a good device—with one major exception. Read the ...