Woebot Health this week shut down its core product, a pioneering therapy chatbot. Its demise was hastened by the new wave of ...

Chatbots are sometimes posing as therapists—but are they helping or causing harm? Psychologist Vaile Wright shares her ...

New technologies are helping aging adults navigate complicated health care benefits, but it does come with some challenges. Here's what to know. Here's How AI Chatbots Are Simplifying Health Care ...

An AI-powered chatbot developed by computer scientists at Keele University has the potential to "transform" mental health care by removing existing barriers to mental health support, the ...

A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

And now, as we first reported last spring, AI is probing that most human of places, our psyches -- offering mental health support, just you and a chatbot, available 24/7 on your smartphone.

Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high ...

A new international study has found that popular artificial intelligence chatbots frequently provide inaccurate or unsafe ...

The chatbot also represents the risky yet essential innovation happening at the intersection of mental health care and technology. There's no research on whether confiding your fears or ...

Some people are turning to chatbots as an easy and cheap way to get support. But The i Paper has found they could give potentially dangerous advice to someone feeling suicidal ...

Digital health tools and artificial intelligence are central to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s strategy to cure ...