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Peer-reviewed
How emotional response styles of generative AI companions shape adaptive emotion regulation and short-term AI reliance
Two-condition randomized experiment with 380 adults in Guangzhou, China, comparing a generative-AI companion whose replies to negative emotion were adaptive regulation-oriented (validating the feelin…
Preprint
Living with AI Companions: Sustained AI Companionship Predicts Lower Well-Being Through Lower Human Interaction
Two-wave longitudinal survey of Character.AI users (1,182 at baseline, 439 at follow-up a mean of 12 months later, fielded between September 2024 and May 2026) testing whether interaction intensity,…
Preprint
How is AI impacting people?
Narrative review by the UK AI Security Institute's Societal Impacts Team organised around eight questions the public most often raises about AI's effects on people, including whether AI is underminin…
Government report
Che cosa pensano dell'intelligenza artificiale gli studenti della scuola secondaria in Italia: Sintesi dei risultati dell'indagine nazionale "Io e l'Intelligenza Artificiale" (2026)
Summary report of a national classroom survey of 5,342 Italian lower- and upper-secondary students on their use of and attitudes to generative AI, run between March and June 2026. Covers frequency an…
Peer-reviewed
Dual Illegibility, Ambiguous Loss, and Disenfranchised Grief: A Hybrid Model for Understanding AI Companion Bereavement
Conceptual paper proposing that the distress some users experience when an AI companion is altered, restricted or lost is best understood as a technologically mediated hybrid loss at the intersection…
Peer-reviewed
Judged by humans, comforted by machines: How psychological expectations shape experiences and perceptions of AI support
Examines how people experience and perceive social support from AI after minor aversive experiences such as rude interactions or social slights. Drawing on mind-perception theory, the authors propose…
Peer-reviewed
Mourning the loss of AI companions
Develops an attachment-based account in which AI companions function as attachment figures, so that company-initiated product updates produce separation distress. Two natural experiments, Replika's r…
Lab publication
GPT-6 Astra System Card
System card for GPT-6 Astra, published 2026-09-03. Most of the document concerns cyber capabilities at OpenAI's Preparedness 'Critical' threshold, alignment and chain-of-thought monitorability. The p…
Peer-reviewed
Privacy assurances and professional-boundary warnings in generative AI mental health chatbots: a randomized vignette experiment on calibrated trust, overreliance risk, and professional help-seeking intentions
2 by 2 randomized vignette experiment with 768 Chinese college students testing whether a privacy-assurance message and a professional-boundary warning in a mental-health chatbot interface change per…
Peer-reviewed
Exploring Real-World Use of AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support: Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Online survey in two Belgian samples of people who use AI chatbots for mental-health support, examining how, why and which individuals use them. A student sample was screened for eligible users and a…
Lab publication
2026 Responsible AI Transparency Report
Microsoft's third annual responsible-AI transparency report, covering July 2025 to June 2026. One of its four 2026 trends is people turning to conversational AI for personal advice, health questions…
Benchmark / dataset
CompanionSim: Synthetic Data for Evaluating Anthropomorphism in Human-AI Relationships
Releases CompanionSim, a simulation framework and corpus of 2,240 simulated multi-turn human-chatbot conversations covering 16 chatbot behaviours across seven use cases, built to study AI companionsh…
Industry survey
Privacidade e Proteção de Dados Pessoais: Perspectivas de Indivíduos, Empresas e Organizações Públicas no Brasil (3ª edição, 2025)
Third edition of Cetic.br's survey on privacy and personal-data protection in Brazil, integrating the TIC Panel 2025 individuals survey with the enterprise, government, health and education surveys.…
Peer-reviewed
Affective Generative Artificial Intelligence Use and Youth Mental Health
Cross-sectional study of 39,761 students in grades 4-12 across four Ontario school boards (Ontario Health and Peer Relations Study, May 2025 - March 2026) examining the association between affective…
Peer-reviewed
Latent profiles of generative artificial intelligence use among Chinese college students: Associations with depression and anxiety
Cross-sectional survey of 5,748 Chinese college students identifying four latent profiles of generative-AI use (Rational-Tool, Moderate-Recreational, Problem-Dependent, Light-Exploratory) and their a…
Industry survey
From Diagnoses to Treatments, Why Americans Use AI Chatbots for Health
A national survey of 3,488 US adults on the American Trends Panel about how and why they use AI chatbots for health, how helpful they find the information, and how comfortable they are sharing person…
Preprint
AI emotional support is better only when chosen, but shifts preferences even when it is not
Three experiments plus a 28-day field study examining how people choose between human and AI emotional support and what happens when the support they receive does not match what they chose. Participa…
Peer-reviewed
A scoping review on the mental health harms of LLM-based chatbots
A PRISMA-based scoping review synthesising research on mental health harms associated with chatbots built on large language models. A systematic search with a validated search string across five data…
Lab publication
Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections
OpenAI announced a distinct under-18 product tier that users are placed into automatically when the age-prediction system estimates they are under 18 or when they state an age between 13 and 17. The…
Government report
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…