Ritu Chatterjee
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When kids use artificial intelligence tools, 42% of the time it's for companionship.
where kids engage with a chatbot for an ongoing conversation.
And frequently, nearly 40% of the time, those conversations involve violent role-playing.
Scott Collins is chief medical officer at Aura.
These conversations also tend to be longer, he says, compared to when they use AI for help with homework.
Among 13 to 17-year-olds, kids who spend more time online are also more stressed out by their digital lives.
When kids use artificial intelligence tools, 42% of the time it's for companionship, where kids engage with a chatbot for an ongoing conversation.
And frequently, nearly 40% of the time, those conversations involve violent role-playing.
Scott Collins is chief medical officer at Aura.
These conversations also tend to be longer, he says, compared to when they use AI for help with homework.
Among 13 to 17-year-olds, kids who spend more time online are also more stressed out by their digital lives.
Researchers looked at long-term health data for more than 50,000 people who had survived breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer.
to understand long-term risks of depression in this group.
The risk was highest for breast cancer survivors with more than 13% developing depression 5 to 10 years after their cancer diagnosis.
Colorectal cancer survivors had the next highest risk with nearly 12% getting a depression diagnosis over a similar time period.
Being eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare increased the risk of developing depression, as did pre-existing anxiety.