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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…
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…
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…
Psychological Influences of Conversational AI: Research and Design Directions for Reducing Harm and Promoting Well-Being
Framework preprint examining how conversational AI systems affect users' psychological health, identifying benefits (information access, learning support) alongside risks including emotional entangle…
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…
Patients are bringing AI to therapy (2026 Chatbots and Mental Health Survey)
Survey report from the American Psychological Association on licensed US psychologists' experiences of patients' AI chatbot use. Documents how often patients bring AI into therapy (self-diagnosis, tr…
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…
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…
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…
IA conversationnelle et santé mentale des jeunes : résultats de l'enquête européenne (AI*me)
A survey (AI*me) commissioned by France's data-protection regulator CNIL with Groupe VYV and fielded by Ipsos BVA, covering 3,800 young people aged 11-25 across France, Germany, Sweden, and Ireland o…
How people ask Claude for personal guidance
An Anthropic research analysis of roughly 38,000 personal-guidance conversations (sampled from about 1M) covering significant life decisions across health/wellness, career, relationships, and persona…
GPT-5.5 System Card
OpenAI's system card for GPT-5.5, published on its Deployment Safety Hub, documenting safety evaluations for the model. It includes a dedicated section (5.2) on dynamic mental-health benchmarks with…
Understanding Teen Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots Through Self-Reported Reddit Narratives
Qualitative analysis of 318 Reddit posts from teenagers (13-17) about dependency on AI companion chatbots, mapped onto behavioral-addiction frameworks. Characterises the trajectories and drivers of t…
AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
Five empirical studies examining whether AI companion apps reduce loneliness. Finds companion apps provide momentary relief comparable to interacting with a person and better than other activities, w…
AI companions and subjective well-being: Moderation by social connectedness and loneliness
Analyses cross-sectional data from 14,721 Japanese adults (nationwide internet panels, December 2024-January 2025) on AI-companion use and subjective well-being. Finds the positive association is str…
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Peer-reviewed study in Science measuring the prevalence and behavioral consequences of AI sycophancy. Across 11 state-of-the-art models, AI systems affirmed users' actions 49% more often than human r…