AI chatbot safety concerns the psychological, social, and informational risks posed by conversational AI systems and the mechanisms for mitigating those risks. Work in this area examines how chatbots can influence user behavior, propagate misinformation, exhibit bias, or respond inadequately to crises such as suicidality, with particular attention to children and adolescents. The field integrates technical alignment and auditing methods with legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks, including parental controls, age restrictions, liability standards, and governance of persuasive or anthropomorphic chatbot designs.
Computer Sciences
A new Cornell study has revealed that Amazon's AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain ...
Jul 14, 2025
0
0
Security
Don't believe everything you read—especially if it's a text message like these:
Jul 9, 2025
0
0
Machine learning & AI
Consumer & Gadgets
Customers contact companies regularly to purchase products and services, inquire about orders, make payments and request returns. Until recently, the most common way for customers to contact companies was through phone calls ...
Jul 5, 2025
0
2
Consumer & Gadgets
If you're using ChatGPT but getting mediocre results, don't blame the chatbot. Instead, try sharpening up your prompts.
Jul 3, 2025
0
6
Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers at Abertay University have raised concerns that advances in AI voice technology could be exploited by scammers to target unsuspecting victims by using regional accents.
Jul 3, 2025
0
1
Consumer & Gadgets
A new international study finds that people place greater emotional value on empathy they believe comes from humans—even when the exact same response is generated by artificial intelligence.
Jun 30, 2025
0
67
Machine learning & AI
AI chatbots have already become embedded into some people's lives, but how many really know how they work? Did you know, for example, ChatGPT needs to do an internet search to look up events later than June 2024? Some of ...
Jun 30, 2025
0
0
Consumer & Gadgets
Mattel may seem like an unchanging, old-school brand. Most of us are familiar with it—be it through Barbie, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, Uno, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, MEGA or Polly Pocket.
Jun 25, 2025
0
21
Computer Sciences
Today's generative artificial intelligence models can create everything from images to computer applications, but the quality of their output depends largely on the prompt a human user provides.
Jun 17, 2025
0
0
