Inside Character.AI’s disheveled Palo Alto, California headquarters, employees at first appear to be hard at work, glued to their computer monitors. But rather than coding, many of them are engrossed ...

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Ashley Velie is a Peabody Award-winning producer for 60 Minutes who has worked overseas and in the U.S. for CBS News since 1998. She has received multiple awards and nominations for stories on war, ...

The AI chatbot service Character.ai announced on Wednesday that it plans to gradually scale back the ability of users under the age of 18 to interact with digital personalities, and eventually cut ...

Part of modern parenting, for many of us, is navigating the shifting landscape of digital threats. From the pitfalls of social media to the risks of excessive screen time. Now, a new technology has ...

What just happened? The potential dangers of all-too realistic chatbots have been highlighted in a lawsuit following the death of a teenager who killed himself after becoming obsessed with ...