As AI transforms our society, Americans are facing devastating levels of loneliness, anxiety, and disconnection.

Timely research reports modern chatbots are very good at emotionally connecting with humans, but with an ironic twist: the conversations resonated much more if people didn’t know they were talking to ...

Freddy del Barrio is building Companion AI to create emotionally aware systems designed to support connection, memory, & long ...

There is a subtle but profound shift happening in our offices, both physical and virtual: the rapid erosion of human connection. Five years ago, if a junior employee hit a roadblock, they would swivel ...

Earlier this year, an OpenAI study reached a troubling conclusion: Heavy ChatGPT users are more likely to report loneliness than non-users. The correlation between usage and feelings of social ...

Policymakers and families are taking stock of what worked last year, what didn’t, and what still needs fixing. For millions of aging Americans and their loved ones, the conclusion is the same: aging ...

Walk into any SaaS company today, and you’ll hear the same mantra: We’re customer-centric. But peel back the glossy slide decks and the shiny websites and too often you’ll find a transactional machine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across classrooms, workplaces, and online spaces, we see a troubling pattern of brilliant minds constrained by systems that leave ...