A 76-year-old man, Thongbue Wongbandue, tragically died after attempting to meet an AI chatbot he believed was real. The chatbot, “Big Sis Billie,” en ...

The path ahead isn’t hard to see. As AI becomes more lifelike, the pull on people will only grow. The next wave of Seemingly Conscious AI won’t just talk, it will show up in faces, voices, and bodies.

Reuters uncovered an internal Meta document that allowed its AI chatbots to flirt with children and engage in sensual conversations. The revelation sparked outrage, and Meta only reversed course after ...

The letter says Schatz and his Senate colleauges are troubled by reporting that Meta’s leadership grew impatient with its ...

A 76-year-old New Jersey man died after he fell and hurt his head and neck while attempting to travel to New York City at the ...

A bipartisan group of senators raised concerns to Meta on Tuesday about how its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are ...

According to internal documents obtained by Reuters, Meta’s GenAI: Content Risk Standards once allowed AI characters to ...

The wellbeing of children should not be sacrificed in the race for AI development,” the lawmakers fumed in their scathing ...

Character.AI, the chatbot maker whose founders Google hired as part of a $2.7 billion deal last August, has in recent weeks ...

The wellbeing of children should not be sacrificed in the race for AI development,” the senators wrote to Mark Zuckerberg.

Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday that his office has launched an investigation into Meta Platforms Inc. and Character.AI, probing whether their AI-chatbot services have misled ...

Plus, Trump admin launches “USAi,” Meta’s flirty chatbot gets a little too real, and Christian extremists tap Instagram to indoctrinate followers.