China has drawn a regulatory line around AI companions, chatbots, and virtual friends, and the deadline to comply is less than three months away. On April 10, 2026, five of China’s most powerful ...

As AI becomes increasingly more entrenched into our everyday lives, a new survey in the UK has found that nearly a third of children using AI chatbots said that they would describe the technology as ...

Your AI chatbot may be your companion, your assistant, even your romantic partner. But it may also be the gateway to something more ominous, according to a panel at Harvard Law School last week. As ...

Mileva Repasky was worried about her 12-year-old daughter Madelyn. The typically chipper sixth-grader had grown moody and quiet. On the way home from dance practice one day in May, she learned why.

Elon University has partnered with The Washington Post to conduct what turned out to be a worrying survey about Americans viewing AI chatbots as virtual friends or therapists. The results very much ...

Although many people turn to them in hopes of fulfilling a social void, AI companions might be furthering the loneliness epidemic, a new study found. Researchers at Stanford University analyzed ...

I feel like I'm writing a science fiction novel, but this is a reality that needs to be clearly stated: bots are not human. Yet, we're allowing them to become companions for our children and our young ...