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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Showing only user inputs, the chats appeared to be from unwitting people prompting a chatbot to help solve relationship or business problems, who likely expected those conversations would remain private.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Nov. 2025
On July 4, after Zane confessed to feeling guilty about ignoring more texts from his family members, the chatbot offered to help Zane craft a terse message to them.
—Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
At the time, many companies were launching AI tools like chatbots and internal agents at a remarkable pace, but security safeguards struggled to keep up, which would allow malicious actors to spot weaknesses with methods that cybersecurity tools were never built to detect.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
In its 2022 pilot program in New York, which assessed the effects of an AI chatbot on older adults’ mental health, a vast majority reported a decline in loneliness and an improvement in well-being.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Nov. 2025
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ArsTechnica, 7 Nov. 2025
On July 4, after Zane confessed to feeling guilty about ignoring more texts from his family members, the chatbot offered to help Zane craft a terse message to them.
—Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
At the time, many companies were launching AI tools like chatbots and internal agents at a remarkable pace, but security safeguards struggled to keep up, which would allow malicious actors to spot weaknesses with methods that cybersecurity tools were never built to detect.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
In its 2022 pilot program in New York, which assessed the effects of an AI chatbot on older adults’ mental health, a vast majority reported a decline in loneliness and an improvement in well-being.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for chatbot
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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chatbot
noun
chat·bot
ˈchat-ˌbät
: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings
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