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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
How People Use ChatGPT: Conversation-Level Evidence from India, Nigeria, Brazil, and Pakistan
Data-donation study of complete ChatGPT exports from 1,252 users in India, Nigeria, Brazil and Pakistan (202,590 conversations, December 2022 to February 2026), paired with self-reported age and gend…
Peer-reviewed
AI-Mediated Mental Health Support: The Role of Attachment Orientation and Psychological Distress
A preregistered cross-sectional survey of 584 Israeli adults who use general-purpose generative AI asks whether attachment orientation (ECR-RS) and psychological distress (DASS-21) are associated wit…
Industry survey
NPR Religion and AI Survey (Ipsos): Most Americans skeptical of turning to AI for spiritual guidance
Ipsos KnowledgePanel probability survey of 1,011 US adults for NPR on the use of AI tools for personal, emotional and spiritual counsel. It reports how often AI users seek advice on personal decision…
Peer-reviewed
Beyond Replacement: Episode-Based Pathways Between Generative AI and School Counselor Help-Seeking Among Indonesian Adolescents
Explanatory sequential mixed-methods study of 432 Indonesian students aged 15 to 18. It maps how GenAI and human support, including school counselors, are used within the same personal or emotional p…
Peer-reviewed
Parental Attachment Anxiety and Adolescents' Authentic Self-Disclosure to Generative AI: The Roles of Rumination, Depression, and Gender
Offline survey of 685 Chinese adolescents (324 girls; mean age 13.17) testing how parent-adolescent attachment anxiety relates to adolescents' authentic self-disclosure to generative AI, drawing on c…
Peer-reviewed
Beyond Alliance Scores: Construct Transport and Measurement Validity in Mental Health Chatbot Research—A Systematic Scoping Review
Systematic scoping review of how therapeutic alliance has been conceptualized, measured and adapted in mental-health chatbot research. It covers 40 reports from 38 studies, using a COSMIN-informed ma…
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
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…
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…
Industry survey
Kinder Medien Monitor 2026: Ergebnispräsentation
Annual representative study of media use by children aged 4 to 13 in German-speaking households in Germany, based on tandem interviews with children and a parent. The 2026 edition adds a chapter on s…
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…
Peer-reviewed
When AI Says "I have been in similar situations": Synthetic Lived Experience in Peer-like Caregiver Support
Study of how large language models prompted to sound peer-like produce language implying lived experience when supporting family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. C…
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…
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…