Dr. Saini is a psychiatrist and Dr. Bailen is a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. As the use of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini has surged, we’ve heard about ...

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...

The appeal is almost too clean. Ask for a lover, a therapist, a fictional world, or an answer to an endless chain of questions, and the machine responds right away.

People with mental illness who use AI chatbots risk experiencing a worsening of their condition. This is shown by a new study published in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. The researchers ...