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New Research Links Mass-Market AI Chatbots to Psychological Harm

Original: The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psycholog

New research suggests that AI chatbots being pushed to billions of users by major tech companies may be causing serious psychological harms. The findings, reported by Futurism, raise questions about the safety of conversational AI products as companies race to deploy them at massive scale, and are prompting concern among researchers and the public about inadequate safeguards for users' mental health.

Why now: Fresh research on mental health risks from widely used AI chatbots lands amid growing public debate over AI safety and rapid deployment

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• The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://futurism .com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-serious-psychological-harms · futurism.com@web.brid.gy · 2

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