MIT and OpenAI teamed up to study how AI chatbots are making people feel. Where users ended up depends on where they started.

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The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the “parents’ revolution” on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has ignited.

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The factors that lead to digital addiction in children are well-known. As Dr. Janani listed out: easy access to devices, lack of parental control or supervision, online gaming and social media ...

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Georgia’s elementary and middle school students will have to go cold turkey from their phones during school hours.

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday in an ...

Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. In a new joint ...