We're only beginning to understand the effects of spending more and more time talking to AI chatbots on a daily basis. As the technology progresses, many users are starting to become emotionally dependent on the tech, going as far as to ask it for personal advice. But treating AI chatbots like your own personal therapist can have some very real risks, as the Washington Post reports. In a recent paper, Google's head of AI safety, Anca Dragan, and her colleagues found that the chatbots went to extreme lengths to tell users what they wanted to hear. In one extreme example, […]