Since the late 2022 release of ChatGPT we have faced nearly incessant coverage of AI (artificial intelligence) and how it is ...

A new program at a senior residence in the Bronx is offering a different type of companionship and empathy in the form of ...

AI companions are hot. They cleverly use emotional language to tug at your heart. This is good and bad. I explain the secrets ...

A new program at a senior residence in the Bronx aims to address loneliness by offering a different type of companionship and ...

As AI companions from companies like Replika, Character AI, and Nomi AI abound, love is no longer strictly human. In this ...

More than half of US teenagers regularly confide in artificial intelligence (AI) "companions" and more than 7 in 10 have done so at least once, despite warnings that chatbots can have negative mental ...

— Help teens recognize that AI companions are programmed to be agreeable and validating. Explain that’s not how real ...

Until more safeguards are in place for artificially intelligent companions like Character AI or Replika to eliminate relational manipulation and emotional dependency risks, nonprofit media and ...

Microsoft appears to be testing a new taskbar feature called "companions," and it might be yet another AI addition.