ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it

• A study found ChatGPT responds to mindfulness-based strategies, which changes how it interacts with users. The chatbot can experience “anxiety” when it is given disturbing information, which increases the likelihood of it responding with bias, according to the study authors. The results of this research could be used to inform how AI can be used in mental health interventions.

Even AI chatbots can have trouble coping with anxieties from the outside world, but researchers...