Cristina Criddle Sewell’s case is not a one-off. Lots of teenagers turn to chatbots for emotional connection. One study showed that 19 per cent of high schoolers in the United States said that they or ...
When I first heard a patient say, “I told the bot, not my therapist,” I assumed the remark was exaggerated. It was not. Increasingly, adolescents—and adults—are turning to conversational artificial ...