chatbot
noun
chat·bot
ˈchat-ˌbät 
plural chatbots
: a bot (see bot entry 1 sense 3) that is designed to converse with human beings
Chatbots … have been around for years, mostly to answer generic questions over the phone or on a website.—
Dalvin Brown
Dalvin BrownThe challenge is to create a chatbot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.—Marc Saltzman
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Meanwhile, Talkspace has aggressively pushed local governments and cities to use the company’s app and its TalkAI chatbot as always-available mental health options for teens and others who need them, including in places like New York City and Seattle.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
The Last Week Tonight audience was all in on John Oliver’s takedown of AI chatbots.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 May 2026
Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the chatbot Claude, clashed with the Pentagon earlier this year over whether there were adequate safeguards around the military’s use of its technology.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Several families of victims of a mass shooting in Canada earlier this year are suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging the company's generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, played a role in the February shooting and that the company should have taken steps to prevent it.
—Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
The Last Week Tonight audience was all in on John Oliver’s takedown of AI chatbots.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 May 2026
Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the chatbot Claude, clashed with the Pentagon earlier this year over whether there were adequate safeguards around the military’s use of its technology.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Several families of victims of a mass shooting in Canada earlier this year are suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging the company's generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, played a role in the February shooting and that the company should have taken steps to prevent it.
—Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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chatbot
noun
chat·bot
ˈchat-ˌbät
: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings
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