Laura Reiley is speaking out about 'AI companions' after finding her daughter confided in a chatbot in the months before taking her own life.

Chatbots weren't designed for mental health, but they are increasingly used for therapy. What are the risks an benefits?

New safety system focuses on detecting distress, self-harm, and emotional dependence in conversations• CEO Sam Altman says ...

OpenAI discloses that more than a million people a week display suicidal intent when conversing with ChatGPT and hundreds of ...

OpenAI says its latest models can provide support for vulnerable people, but some experts still have concerns.

Society’s embrace of artificial intelligence is already having devastating, and sometimes fatal, effects on teens’ mental ...

OpenAI faces scrutiny after suicides linked to ChatGPT; advocates warn bots shouldn’t mimic therapists without safeguards.

Matthew and Maria Raine have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI after ChatGPT advised their 16-year-old son, Adam, to commit ...

OpenAI says that 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include “explicit indicators of potential ...

The bipartisan GUARD Act would require user age verification and a disclosure that the conversation a user is having ...

Two US senators have proposed legislation that would require AI chatbot companies to verify the ages of people using their ...

An estimated 1.2 million users reportedly talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly, according to a newly released report from the ...