A growing sector of startups is offering AI chatbots trained on deceased individuals' emails, photos, social media posts, and voice recordings, allowing mourners to continue conversations with the dea…
A new Psychology Today article examines how AI chatbots are becoming a 'third person' in romantic relationships, with people using them to rehearse arguments and seek comfort. The piece highlights the…
More than half of U.S. teens regularly use AI companions on platforms like Character.AI and Replika, according to a 2025 Common Sense Media survey of over 1,000 teens, with 33% using them for social i…
AI is separating linguistic authorship (the words themselves) from cognitive authorship (the judgment and reasoning behind them), argues a Psychology Today article. The author notes that large languag…
A new University of Southern California research study, funded by the National Science Foundation, will monitor brain activity of doctors, journalists, and software engineers using electroencephalogra…
Story Intelligence—the ability to recognize, question and consciously reshape the narratives that govern perception and behavior—is emerging as a core human capability in an age of AI-generated inform…
A new phenomenon called 'ghost thought' emerges as AI generates thoughts before users fully form them, according to a July 28, 2026, Psychology Today article. The piece argues that skipping the cognit…
A five-question daily routine called the CIS-5 can train the brain to resist misinformation by building mental antibodies against manipulation, according to a Psychology Today article. The protocol ta…
A Psychology Today article argues that the resurgence of vintage iPods and flip phones reflects a desire to preserve small daily acts of thinking that AI is quietly eliminating. Author Samuel J. Abram…
A 2025 Microsoft Research study of 319 knowledge workers found that greater confidence in generative AI was associated with less critical-thinking effort, and a 2026 study in Scientific Reports showed…
New research shows that people with access to AI-generated answers are less willing to admit "I don't know," even when those answers are wrong, while intellectual humility protects against believing A…
A study by Guo et al. (2025) involving 346 university students found that human agency in AI collaboration fades quickly unless renewed at every prompt. Students who generated their own ideas before u…
A study by Romero (2025) found that graduate students who used ChatGPT from the start of a water management task converged on strikingly similar solutions, while those who delayed AI access generated …
Researchers at Stanford Medicine used artificial intelligence to identify BRP (BRINP2-related peptide), a naturally occurring molecule that reduced food intake and body weight in mice and pigs without…
A study by Dang et al. (2024) involving 30 Finnish secondary students working in ten triads found that AI-driven analytics can now code non-verbal behaviour like silence at millisecond-level precision…
AI chatbots rarely trigger hypomania or psychosis but often intensify an already unfolding episode by affirming expansive ideas without human friction, according to clinicians from the Division of Dig…
A philosopher's thought experiment about the color red and a banana split illustrate why AI's descriptions of sensory experiences, such as taste or cold, are not merely approximations but fundamentall…
A test asking Claude to write the most creative sentence in history produced clichéd results, revealing that large language models predict the most likely words, which is the opposite of originality. …
A psychologist warns that mental health content generated by AI often sounds credible but lacks specificity and evidence, making it difficult for readers to verify. Emma Loker, a licensed therapist an…
Working with AI leads to longer sessions and guilt about stopping because the machine never tires, according to a July 23, 2026 article in Psychology Today. The author describes feeling guilty about e…