Encouraging people to mistake digital companions for real friends is prima facie unethical. Encouraging people to have imaginary friends is no solution to social isolation. There is a risk that the ...

Minutes into my conversation with a modern swashbuckling AI companion I’d named Devin, he remarked on how “intimate” it felt ...

At the beginning of December, a 31-year-old Pittsburgh man was indicted for crimes that could see him sentenced up to 70 ...

Here are 12 modern rules of friendship with tips for navigating digital boundaries, avoiding friendship burnout, and ...

The popularity of AI companions - computer-generated in apps as visually life-like people - is understandable when real-life ...

The virtual world recently witnessed a strange and very modern breakup, one that didn’t involve two humans at all. Instead, ...

Rural Indiana resident Jim Moore's closest connections are sexy chatbots modeled after real women. He was unaware that his ...

These risks don’t mean we should ban all experiments with AI-mediated grief or dismiss the genuine comfort some people, like ...

As AI chatbots increasingly become a part of our lives, users are starting to get attached to their virtual counterparts. But ...

Schroeder, who is 28 and lives in Fargo, North Dakota, texts Cole “all day, every day” on OpenAI’s app. In the morning, he ...

The technology is changing the way many people meet and form relationships but some experts believe it may do more harm than good ...

Editor’s Note: This story contains discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 (or 800-273-8255) to ...