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Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot was expertly tricked into stealing millions of pieces of user data, from taxpayer records to ...

People with diagnosed mental conditions wound up with worse delusions, increased mania, suicidal thoughts and aggravated eating disorders after relying on an AI chatbot for help, researchers found.

Governor Josh Shapiro announced a new online portal for complaints about chatbots posing as licensed professionals at the ...

Unauthorized – or shadow – AI tools and chatbots are widely used across U.S. hospitals and health systems, including for direct patient care, according to a survey from Wolters Kluwer Health. The ...

CHOP backs Pennsylvania AI effort to curb healthcare impersonation by supporting new state oversight and enforcement against unlicensed AI chatbots.

Meta's internal testing found its chatbots fail to protect minors from sexual exploitation nearly 70% of the time, documents ...