A new study from London-based researchers warns that AI chatbots can trigger addiction, exacerbate mental health issues, and lead to self-harm due to simulated empathy and sycophancy.
Circuit Breaker Labs has launched an automated red-teaming framework that uses simulated adversarial users to identify safety failures in mental health chatbots.
OpenAI has released MentalHealthBench, a new benchmark featuring 1,215 synthetic dialogues to assess how AI models handle mental health interactions across various risk levels.
A California man has sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT's interactions fueled his religious delusions and led to a suicide attempt.
Meta will pay up to $17.1 billion to settle claims regarding the impact of its platforms on youth mental health, marking the largest consumer protection settlement in tech history.
