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California lawmakers tackle potential dangers of AI chatbots after parents raise safety concerns
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California lawmakers tackle potential dangers of AI chatbots after parents raise safety concerns

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When her 14-year-old son took his own life after interacting with artificial intelligence chatbots, Megan Garcia turned her grief...

Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users
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Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users

Attendees are pictured before a presentation of the Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, and celebration of the company’s 50th anniversary at Microsoft headquarters, Friday,...

Experiments show adding CoT windows to chatbots teaches them to lie less obviously
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Experiments show adding CoT windows to chatbots teaches them to lie less obviously

Monitoring frontier reasoning models for reward hacking. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.11926 Over the past year, AI researchers have found that when AI...

Not even fairy tales are safe – researchers weaponise bedtime stories to jailbreak AI chatbots and create malware
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Not even fairy tales are safe – researchers weaponise bedtime stories to jailbreak AI chatbots and create malware

Security researchers have developed a new technique to jailbreak AI chatbots The technique required no prior malware coding knowledge This involved creating a...

Nonprofits are in trouble. Could more sensitive chatbots be the answer?
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Nonprofits are in trouble. Could more sensitive chatbots be the answer?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In today’s attention economy, impact-driven organizations are arguably at a disadvantage. Since they have no tangible product to sell,...

Russian disinformation ‘infects’ AI chatbots, researchers warn
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Russian disinformation ‘infects’ AI chatbots, researchers warn

Credit: Sanket Mishra from Pexels A sprawling Russian disinformation network is manipulating Western AI chatbots to spew pro-Kremlin propaganda, researchers say, at a...

Two AI chatbots speaking to each other in their own special language is the last thing we need
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Two AI chatbots speaking to each other in their own special language is the last thing we need

Imagine if two AIs could chat with each other in a language no human could understand. Right. Now go hide under the covers....

AI chatbots ease embarrassment, but humans handle anger better, research finds
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AI chatbots ease embarrassment, but humans handle anger better, research finds

Mugur Geana demonstrates eye-tracking equipment in a KU lab. A KU study has found people prefer working with AI chatbots when discussing embarrassing...

Experts warn DeepSeek is 11 times more dangerous than other AI chatbots
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Experts warn DeepSeek is 11 times more dangerous than other AI chatbots

DeepSeek’s R1 AI is 11 times more likely to be exploited by cybercriminals than other AI models – whether that’s by producing harmful...