I took Harvard's free online coding classes to better catch AI's errors - and they're legit

Harvard's free programming classes teach you how to think, debug, and adapt in an AI-driven world where knowing code matters more than ever.
eWeek

First Robot App Store Ships Punches and Dance Moves

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has launched what it claims is the world's first robot app store, now in public beta for i ...
CBS News

A mom thought her daughter was texting friends before her suicide. It was an AI chatbot.

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...
The New York Times

Chatbots Can Meaningfully Shift Political Opinions, Studies Find

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...
The Atlantic

Could ChatGPT Secretly Tell You How to Vote?

In the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, more than 2,000 Americans, roughly split across partisan lines, were recruited for an experiment: Could an AI model influence their ...
ABC News

AI chatbot dangers: Are there enough guardrails to protect children and other vulnerable people?

The technology is used by more than 70% of teenagers in the U.S. Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having ...
Psychology Today

Should AI Chatbots Be Held Responsible for Suicide?

Back in 2017, the suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III made national headlines after it was revealed that his girlfriend, Michelle Carter, had encouraged him to take his life over the course of ...
The Hill

Newsom vetoes AI chatbot restrictions for kids, signs bill adding guardrails

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill Monday that would have restricted children’s access to AI chatbots while signing another that places guardrails on how chatbots interact with kids and ...
NBC Bay Area

California governor vetoes bill to restrict kids' access to AI chatbots

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday vetoed landmark legislation that would have restricted children's access to AI chatbots. The bill would have banned companies from making AI chatbots available ...
New Scientist

Chatbots work best when you speak to them with formal language

Talking to an AI chatbot in less formal language, as many people do, reduces the accuracy of its responses – suggesting that either we need to be linguistically stricter when using a chatbot, or that ...
UPI

Google: Gemini AI chatbot now for free to all U.S. users

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Google announced Thursday that its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini now will be available to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the United States without a subscription. In ...