AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to ...

You may have heard the famous answer to the question, “Why climb a mountain?” (“Because it is there.”) The same could be said about our desire to create programs that can communicate with us in a ...

It is a universal tendency to assign or impute human emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities to nonhuman creatures and things. Owls are “wise.” Swollen rivers are “raging” and “angry.” ...

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

More teens are turning to AI companions for comfort, distraction, and a sense of connection. For some, that comfort seems to ...

While many educators spent the past two years fretting that artificial intelligence is killing student writing, upending person-to-person tutoring and generally wreaking havoc on scholastic inquiry, ...