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TL;DR: A 2026 study in PLOS One found that UK survey participants rated LLM-generated impersonated debate responses as more authentic, coherent, and relevant than real televised-debate answers, even though many generated answers differed from what the real spe…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in National Science Open argued that Centaur, an AI model promoted as a simulator of human cognition, could reproduce psychology-test answers while failing a simple instruction-understanding check. Key Findings Centaur was tested as a cogni…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv review found that mental-health AI agents are moving quickly toward large-language-model chatbots, but most systems still rely on text self-report, narrow depression/anxiety/suicide use cases, and offline tests rather than prospective cli…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint on medRxiv tested suicide-risk vignettes and found that an independent supervisory safety agent detected intervention-level risk far more often than native ChatGPT Health safeguards. Key Findings 224 paired evaluations: Researchers teste…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Communications Psychology analyzed 1,687 dream reports and 1,679 waking reports, finding that dreams were more visual, spatial, social, bizarre, and emotionally negative than waking experiences. Key Findings 3,366 reports analyzed: the m…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly becoming more sophisticated and human-like. This raises an intriguing question: could AI systems one day become conscious? A new interdisciplinary paper explores this complex issue, assessing theories about the…
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