This week the world's largest search companies leaped into a contest to harness a powerful new breed of "generative AI" algorithms. This is an edition of WIRED's Fast Forward newsletter, a weekly ...

A spate of shocking breakdowns and even deaths involving AI chatbots is fuelling panic over ‘AI psychosis’ and new safety ...

A recent report from MarketsAndMarkets said that: "The global chatbot market size was estimated at USD 5.4 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach USD 15.5 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 23.3 ...

Chatbots share limited information, reinforce ideologies, and, as a result, can lead to more polarized thinking when it comes to controversial issues, according to new Johns Hopkins University–led ...

AI chatbots are demonstrating the potential for major harm. Experts warn of urgent risks and call for safeguards to prevent these dangerous failures in AI systems.

Reining in chatbots poses trouble enough without getting bogged down in wider AI legislation created for autonomous weapons, facial recognition, self-driving cars, discriminatory algorithms, the ...

Meta and Google are using armies of contractors to teach AI not to sound "preachy" or "self-righteous," leaked docs show.

Truth Search AI appears to rely heavily on conservative outlet Fox News to answer even the most basic questions.