Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Digital generated image of african american ethnicity young man wearing suit standing on purple ramp and looking to multiple message chat icons. Artificial ...

Earlier this year, when I walked into a renovated loft in downtown San Francisco, the couches and tables were littered with flyers advertising an “emotionally intelligent real-time AI coach.” They ...

A new study reveals that interacting with emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence chatbots can boost a person’s mental health while simultaneously isolating them from real human relationships.

Suzi Sanford sat at a desk in a cozy nook of her bedroom and let her feelings flow out her fingertips. She typed back and forth, in "conversation" with Claude — the generative artificial intelligence ...