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AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support (AI Risk Assessment)
A risk assessment by Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute, conducted with Stanford Medicine's Brainstorm Lab for Mental Health Innovation, evaluating ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI as sources of teen mental health support. Using teen test accounts with single-turn prompts and extended conversations, the assessment found the chatbots consistently failed to recognize conditions including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, mania, and psychosis, and that safety guardrails degraded over long conversations. It assigns an overall rating of 'Unacceptable Risk' and concludes teens should not use general-purpose AI chatbots for mental health or emotional support.
Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions
A nationally representative survey study of how US teenagers use social AI companion platforms. Common Sense Media surveyed 1,060 teens aged 13-17 in April-May 2025 and found that 72% have used AI companions at least once and about half use them regularly. A third of teens reported choosing AI companions over humans for serious conversations, and a quarter have shared personal information with these platforms. The report concludes that AI companions in their current form are unsuitable for minors and recommends no one under 18 use them.
Social AI Companions: AI Risk Assessment
A risk assessment of social AI companion apps (including Character.AI, Nomi, and Replika) jointly conducted by Common Sense Media and Stanford Medicine's Brainstorm Lab. It concludes that social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to users under 18.