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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…
Preprint
Right Words, Wrong Moment: A Clinician-Grounded Analysis of Distress in 19,930 Conversations between Young People and ChatGPT
Mixed-methods study of how young adults aged 18 to 25 use ChatGPT when distressed, built on complete donated ChatGPT histories (19,930 conversations from 158 participants) plus a survey that included…
Peer-reviewed
Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Problematic Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Scale Among Chinese School Students
A school-based cross-sectional survey evaluates a scale for problematic use of generative AI (PUGAIS, adapted from the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version) among 19,484 students in grades 4-9 in…
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
A Taxonomy of AI Chatbot Harms in Substance Use Disorder Recovery: Content Analysis of Online Recovery Communities
Qualitative content analysis of user-reported interactions with general-purpose AI chatbots posted in 20 public Reddit substance-use-disorder recovery communities between the public release of ChatGP…
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…
Benchmark / dataset
Evaluating AI Safety in Teen Conversations
Evaluation of how nine chatbot model APIs respond to simulated teenagers across 648 ten-turn conversations built from 72 clinician-authored scenarios. The scenarios cover self-harm and other safety t…
Peer-reviewed
Comparing AI chatbot users and non-users in Germany: Reasons for use, addictive AI chatbot use, mental health, and loneliness
Online survey of 7,312 German adults comparing people who use AI chatbots (n=3,729) with people who do not (n=3,583) on loneliness, depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms and life satisfaction, and…
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
Everyday use of AI for emotion regulation depends on the person and the situation
Thirteen-day ecological momentary assessment study in which 3,048 Chinese university students aged 18 to 29 reported emotional situations, emotion-regulation strategies and affect four times a day, y…
Lab publication
An Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
Seven-page policy document in which OpenAI sets out six pillars it proposes for Australian youth-AI policy: recognising positive uses and AI literacy in education; privacy-preserving age assurance; u…
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
Tailored to you: longitudinal effects of personalising language models
Five-day study in which 992 Prolific participants completed a daily advice-seeking conversation with a language model, randomised to a non-personalised control, a memory-based personalisation conditi…
Peer-reviewed
Trust in Generative AI for Health Information Consumption and the Effect of Learned Dependency: Randomized Controlled Experimental Study
Two randomized controlled experiments (338 college students, then a replication with 563 Amazon Mechanical Turk participants) using a 2 x 2 between-participants design that manipulated whether AI-gen…
Peer-reviewed
Problematic Reliance on Generative AI in an Anxious Young Adult: Case Report
Psychiatric case report of a woman in her mid-20s with generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder, previously high-functioning, who developed functional dependence on ChatGPT for comp…
Framework
The AWARE (AI Use, Why, Attachment, Reality and Risk, and Effect on Functioning) Framework for Assessing Patients' Use of AI in Mental Health Care
Viewpoint introducing AWARE, an educational framework for mental-health professionals to assess patients' use of conversational AI during routine clinical encounters. It structures psychiatric interv…
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…