A mental-health chatbot that veered off script—giving diet advice to people seeking help from an eating-disorder group—was programmed with generative AI without the group’s knowledge. The ...

As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called Sonny to help. As described in the ...

The most popular AI therapists have millions of users.Yet their explosion in popularity coincides with a stark lack of resources. According to figures from the World Health Organization, there is ...

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.

Amazon employees said the chatbot is leaking confidential information, according to Platformer. Amazon said in a statement it did not find any security issues and denied private data was leaked.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI will open-source the code for its snarky Grok chatbot “this week,” its billionaire founder said. The move makes Grok’s source… ...

Google's Bard AI chatbot is ... Java, JavaScript, Python and TypeScript. Users can export Python code ... If Bard quotes at length from an existing open source project, it will cite the source ...

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Last Friday, however, Morris tweeted that approximately 4,000 users were “provided mental health support… using GPT-3,” which is the popular AI chatbot program developed by OpenAI.

The free mental health service Koko experimented with using an AI chatbot to help respond to people seeking support. The test has drawn criticism as being unethical and lacking transparency ...