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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...