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AHA in the News
Here's where our research has been making headlines in 2025.
- Washington Post: What connecting to your future self can mean to your present (January 5, 2025)
- The Wall Street Journal: AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here’s What I’ve Learned (February 1, 2025)
- MIT Tech Review: An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it (February 6, 2025)
- The Independent: I spoke to an AI version of my future self – and it might have changed my life (February 16, 2025)
- The Guardian: Heavy ChatGPT users tend to be more lonely, suggests research (March 12, 2025)
- Bloomberg: OpenAI Study Finds Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness (March 21, 2025)
- Forbes: The Human Cost Of Talking To Machines: Can A Chatbot Really Care? (April 10, 2025)
- Forbes: MIT Media Lab To Put Human Flourishing At The Heart Of AI R&D (April 14, 2025)
- New York Times: Say Goodbye to Your Kid’s Imaginary Friend (April 16, 2025)
- Nature: Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental health (May 6, 2025)
- UNDP The 2025 Human Development Report: People and possibilities in the age of AI (May 6, 2025)
- New York Times: They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling (June 13, 2025)
- TIME: The Dead Have Never Been This Talkative: The Rise of AI Resurrection (June 27, 2025)
- MIT Technology Review: AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors (July 21, 2025)
- Bloomberg: AI Doesn’t Just Lie, It Can Make You Believe It (August 9, 2025)
- MIT Tech Review: It’s surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot (September 24, 2025)
- The Guardian: ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ (October 22, 2025)
- NYTimes: They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real (November 5, 2025)
- NYTimes: What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality (November 23, 2025)
- The Economist: A new industry of AI companions is emerging (November 6, 2025)
- Scientific American: Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal? (November 18, 2025)
- The Atlantic: The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis (December 4, 2025)