AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human wellbeing or just maximize for engagement. A new benchmark dubbed HumaneBench seeks to fill that gap by evaluating whether chatbots prioritize user wellbeing and how easily those protections fail under pressure.

“I think we’re in an amplification of the addiction cycle that we saw hardcore with social media and our smartphones and screens,” Erika Anderson, founder of Building Humane Technology, the benchmark’s author, told TechCrunch. “But as we go into that AI landscape, it’s going to be very hard to resist. And addiction is amazing business. It’s a very effective way to keep your users, but it’s not great for our community and having

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