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

The challenge is to create a chatbot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.

—Marc Saltzman

Examples of chatbot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

According to a recent report from Israeli cybersecurity firm Gambit Security, hackers last month used Claude, the chatbot from Anthropic, to steal 150 gigabytes of data from Mexican government agencies. —Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026

Google is facing a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that its Gemini chatbot played a role in the suicide of a 36-year-old Florida man. —Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026

Claude is suddenly the most popular iPhone app The AI chatbot Claude has become the talk of the tech world after a feud with the Pentagon. —Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026

The chatbot framed the plan as a psychological strike rather than a physical one. —Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026

Word History

Etymology

chat entry 1 + bot entry 1

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

chatbot

noun

chat·​bot ˈchat-ˌbät 

: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings