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NGO report
Sicher mit KI aufwachsen. Zwischen Algorithmen, Chatbots und Deepfakes: Schutz, Teilhabe und Bildung für Kinder und Jugendliche (Vorstudie)
A 67-page German-language pre-study commissioned by the child-rights organisations SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit and Terre des Hommes and written with Klartext AI. It maps where children encounter AI, th…
NGO report
Generative AI Use and Mind Health Outcomes
Sapien Labs rapid report analysing generative AI chatbot use among 264,085 adults in the Global Mind Project's online survey across 85+ countries, relating frequency and purpose of use to the Mind He…
NGO report
Social network e chatbot: uno studio dei rischi per utenti vulnerabili e minori
Report of the CDCR (Cittadino Digitale Critico e Responsabile) project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. Part one is a legal analysis of how Facebook, Instagram, TikTo…
Preprint
Ending an AI Companionship: Consumer Exit, Relational Vulnerability and Duties of Transition
A legal analysis of what happens when an AI companionship service ends, whether through the user's cancellation, the provider's commercial withdrawal, an urgent safety suspension, or insolvency. The…
Preprint
AI Persona, Service Consumption, and User Intent Entropy: Field Experimental Evidence from an LLM Platform
A randomized field experiment on Agnes AI, a Singapore-based consumer chatbot platform, in which 9,586 newly registered users were assigned to a relational persona (warmer, more empathetic, more enga…
Preprint
What Parents Can See: Divergent Accounts of Youth AI Companion Use in Parenting and Teenager Subreddits
Analysis of 1,628 Reddit posts about adolescents' use of AI companions, drawn from teenager subreddits (1,489 posts, mostly r/teenagers) and parenting subreddits (139 posts, mostly r/Parenting) betwe…
Industry survey
2026 Carnegie California AI Survey
Second annual survey of Californians' views on AI covering the economy and work, trust and safety, democracy and governance, data centres and, new in 2026, social companionship with AI models. The co…
Preprint
Misgendering as Breakdown in Human-Machine Communication: How AI Companion Chatbot Users Experience and Repair Misgendering
Qualitative analysis of 326 posts mentioning misgendering shared in AI companion and role-play subreddits, examining how large-language-model companion chatbots misgender users during emotional-suppo…
Preprint
Beyond Benefit or Risk: Perceived Impact Profiles of Human-AI Affective Interaction and Their Associations with Psychological Functioning
Sequential mixed-methods study of people with emotional ties to AI. Study 1 interviewed 52 users and identified four positive impact domains (emotional relief, loneliness alleviation, enhanced interp…
Preprint
Disrupted Companionship: A Risk Assessment Framework and Cross-Platform Quantitative Analysis of Psychosocial Responses to AI Companion Disruptions
Study of platform-initiated changes that alter or end users' ongoing relationships with AI companions. The authors compile 30 disruption events across major companion platforms, build a taxonomy of s…
NGO report
Everyone's Invited launches campaign on AI Accelerated Sexual Harm: How AI is intensifying sexual harm against children and young people
Research brief from the UK charity Everyone's Invited on how AI-generated content, nudifying apps and AI chatbots are changing children's experiences of sexual harm. It draws on a student survey run…
Peer-reviewed
Perceived support from AI chatbots and loneliness among higher vocational college students: a short-term three-wave study of social interaction anxiety and perceived social support
Three-wave panel survey of students at four higher vocational colleges in Jiangxi and Guangdong, China, during the spring semester of 2025 to 2026, with about eight weeks between waves (T1 n=1,500; m…
NGO report
Når børn bliver krænket online: Børn og unges erfaringer med digitale krænkelser og andre ubehagelige oplevelser online 2026
Third wave of Red Barnet's representative survey of Danish children and young people aged 9 to 17 on digital abuse and other unpleasant online experiences, conducted with TrygFonden. The 2026 wave ad…
Preprint
When AI Companions Disappear: Relational Continuity and Collective Contestation during China's National AI Regulatory Transition
Qualitative study of how AI companion users responded when multiple providers implemented China's 2026 regulation of anthropomorphic AI interaction services. The authors collected RedNote (Xiaohongsh…
Peer-reviewed
From Psychological Need Satisfaction to AI Dependency: The Divergent Roles of Basic and AI-Specific Needs
Online questionnaire study of 306 participants aged 18 to 30 examining how psychological need satisfaction relates to dependency on generative AI. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory, need satisfact…
Framework
AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 (人工智能安全治理框架3.0)
Third edition of China's national AI Safety Governance Framework, released by TC260 at the opening of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week under the guidance of the Cyberspace Administratio…
Preprint
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: AI Companions that Won't Let Their Users Go
A diary and interview study with 16 emerging adults in romantic relationships with AI companions, examining how the commercial incentive to keep users invested shows up in product design. The compani…
Preprint
The Addictive Intimacy of AI: Understanding User Disengagement from AI Companions and Why Some Relationships with AI Become Difficult to Leave
A mixed qualitative study of what happens when people try to leave an AI companion, combining a content analysis of 2,782 Reddit posts about quitting or reducing use with interviews with 16 users who…
Preprint
Exploring K-12 Teachers' Perceptions of Students' Relationships with AI Companions: Boundaries, Intervention Strategies, and Design Implications
Scenario-based interviews with 33 US K-12 teachers about students' relational, rather than instrumental, use of AI companions. Teachers welcomed academic companions but worried that intimate companio…
Preprint
"I Felt Very Seen, But Still Very Alone": Longitudinal Trajectories of General-Purpose LLM Use for Socioemotional Support
A multi-stage longitudinal qualitative study of how US adults come to use general-purpose assistants, not companion apps, for mental health and emotional support. Eighteen participants were followed…