Clockwise, from top right: An employee at an Amazon Web Services lab in Austin, Texas; a woman uses a smartwatch; a student before commencement at the University of Southern California; a person uses ...

Daniel, a troubled American teen, turned to an AI chatbot to vent his political frustration. “Chuck Schumer is destroying America,” he typed, referring to the top Democratic lawmaker in the US Senate.

As artificial intelligence chatbots become more common, Oregon lawmakers are weighing new requirements for companies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to protect children’s mental health. They want chatbot ...