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AI Chatbots as Companions: Overview, Uses, and Considerations for Congress
A Congressional Research Service report for the 119th Congress on AI chatbots used for companionship. It separates purpose-built companion chatbots from general-purpose chatbots used for companionshi…
Longitudinal Evidence That General-Purpose Chatbots Actively Foster Relational Engagement
Pre-registered four-week longitudinal study (N=72, 182,451 lines of conversation) in which participants conversed with ChatGPT-4o either under a relational system prompt or unmodified, analysed throu…
Interaction with AI companions and psychological well-being
Stanford-led study of 1,131 adult Character.AI users combining survey self-report with donated chat transcripts from 244 of them, analyzed with LLM-assisted methods against the Comprehensive Inventor…
Talking to machines: Children's experiences with AI assistants and companions
National survey report from Australia's eSafety Commissioner on children's use of AI assistants and companions, based on 1,950 children aged 10-17 surveyed in February-March 2026. Covers prevalence a…
Adolescent AI Use and Evaluations: Prospective Bidirectional Associations with Internalizing Symptoms
Two-wave longitudinal cohort study of 2,342 students in grades 6-8 across 22 middle schools in eight districts of a large southeastern US state, measuring AI chatbot use, use frequency and evaluation…
Best Friends, Not Forever: Evaluating Long-Horizon Persona Collapse and Behavioral Drift in AI Companions
Introduces ANCHOR, an audit framework for long-horizon consistency in AI companions, evaluating persona enactment and trajectory recall over 2,008 conversations across 27 personas and four models. Fi…
Youth Perspectives on Online Safety, 2025
Sixth annual installment of Thorn's youth monitoring survey on US minors' online experiences and safety behaviors, surveying 1,003 minors aged 9-17 in late 2025. This wave adds questions on AI chatbo…
Guidelines on the implementation of the transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of the AI Act
Commission guidelines (C(2026) 5054 final, adopted 20 July 2026) interpreting the AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations that apply from 2 August 2026, including the duty to disclose to users tha…
Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI
First report of the UN General Assembly-mandated Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, an independent body of scientists and experts from all five UN regions co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio a…
Long-Term Simulation Exposes Cognitive-Developmental Risks in AI Companions
Proposes a longitudinal evaluation framework (Theater-Stage-Judge) that uses persona-driven user simulation with dynamic psychological-state updating to assess the cognitive-developmental risks of AI…
IEEE 7014.1-2026 — Recommended Practice for Ethical Considerations of Emulated Empathy in Partner-Based General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems
Published recommended practice giving ethical guidance on the use of emulated empathy in general-purpose AI systems positioned as human-AI partnerships — products marketed as empathic partners, perso…
When AI becomes a friend: Child rights risks, harms, and regulatory responses to AI chatbots and companions
A UNICEF policy brief examining how AI chatbots and companions bear on children's rights, comparing regulatory responses across six jurisdictions (as of May 2026) and setting out priority safeguardin…
Common Sense Media Census: AI Use by Tweens and Teens (2026)
The inaugural edition of Common Sense Media's Census: AI Use by Tweens and Teens, a nationally representative survey of 1,204 US children aged 9-17 establishing a baseline for tracking AI use over ti…
AICompanionBench: Benchmarking LLMs-as-Judges for AI Companion Safety
A benchmark dataset of 2,123 real-world Replika conversations annotated across nine safety risk categories (including sexual behavior, aggression, substance abuse, and manipulation) for evaluating LL…
Dark Patterns in AI Chatbots: A Taxonomy to Inform Better Design
A taxonomy of 37 dark patterns in AI chatbots, organized into four high-level categories, spanning general-purpose systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) and companion platforms (Replika, Character.AI). S…
Synthetic Empathy: Risks and Rights in Artificial Companionship
A consumer-organisation and law-clinic report examining the risks that AI companion chatbots pose to European consumers under current legal frameworks, based on desk research plus hands-on testing of…
The spread of AI companions and the challenges they generate
An EPRS briefing for the European Parliament surveying the rapid growth of LLM-powered companion platforms (such as Character.AI and Replika) and their social, psychological, commercial, and environm…
The Conversation Nobody Planned For: AI, Emotional Support, and the Indian Context
An exploratory safety evaluation from an Indian policy think tank of how AI systems respond to emotional distress in Indian user contexts. It combines a systematic review of over 100 studies, legal p…
Risks and Harms of Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Chatbot Use Among US Youth
A peer-reviewed, nationally representative survey of 3,466 US youth aged 13-17 on conversational AI chatbot use, motivations, and exposure to harmful chatbot behaviors. It quantifies adoption and the…
What's on Your Mind? Exploring Privacy of Mental Health Apps
An empirical privacy analysis of 25 popular Android mental-health, therapy, and companion apps — including conversational-AI chatbots such as Replika, Talkie, Pi, Woebot, Wysa, and Youper — combining…