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Australia introduces bill to ban AI chatbots that create emotional intimacy

Australia's government has passed a Digital Duty of Care bill through the House of Representatives that would ban AI chatbots designed to build emotional intimacy with users. The bill also sets new online safety rules for social media, games and apps, and will be debated in the Senate in the coming weeks.

19:01PolicyNew

Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Chatbot Disagrees With Him on Major Topics, Including the 2020 Election

The Trump administration launched America.gov, an AI chatbot designed to retrieve federal government information. The bot drew attention by saying Biden won the 2020 election and contradicting the administration's claims on immigration, inflation and tariffs. The White House said the service will be updated with more accurate information, and the bot now refuses to answer election questions.

02 OctAI

New research: AI chatbots can cause serious psychological harms

A new study published in JMIR Mental Health links emotional relationships with AI chatbots to severe negative outcomes, including addiction-like attachment, worsening mental health symptoms, harmful advice and self-harm. Researchers from Northeastern University London and King's College London examined companion bots like Replika and Character.AI as well as general assistants such as ChatGPT and C

02 OctAI

#chatbot

Australia introduces bill to ban AI chatbots that create emotional intimacy

Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Chatbot Disagrees With Him on Major Topics, Including the 2020 Election

New research: AI chatbots can cause serious psychological harms

Quantinuum's quantum computer hits 99.9995% accuracy

Anthropic announcements: Claude 5.5 models, Public Benefit Fund and Singapore office

Microsoft open-sources Agensh, a multi-agent harness scaling to 1,024 agents

Mistral AI launches Voxtral 3, a real-time voice agent stack

NVIDIA announces nearly $10 billion AI investment in Europe