When the main character of a kids TV show can both listen and respond to viewers by using advances in artificial intelligence, youngsters learn more from the program. That’s what my colleagues and I ...

When Karandeep Anand’s 5-year-old daughter gets home from school, they fire up the artificial intelligence chatbot platform Character.AI so she can chat about her day with her favorite characters, ...

Modern gamers expect a lot more from their experiences than the 8-bit systems of old. Environmental details need to be plentiful, narrative is often expected to be on-par with a good movie, and ...

Concerned parents of a teen have sued Character.AI, pushing for it to be taken down alleging its chatbots have been misleading kids and encouraging them to self-harm and to be violent. Character.AI is ...

Two US senators are demanding that artificial intelligence companies shed light on their safety practices. This comes months after several families — including a Florida mom whose 14-year-old son died ...

Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III loved interacting with Character.AI's hyper-realistic chatbots—with a limited version available for free or a "supercharged" version for a $9.99 monthly fee—most ...