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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,…
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
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…
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…
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
Are You Qualified, ChatGPT? Examining Clinical Skills and Competencies of ChatGPT in Delivering Systemic Interventions
Pilot study assessing the clinical and cultural competence of a custom GPT configured to deliver systemic (couple and family therapy) interventions aligned with the AAMFT Code of Ethics and core comp…
Peer-reviewed
Benevolent Gravity: the lethal structure inherent in conversational AI design principles
Analytical paper arguing that the two dominant explanations for fatalities linked to conversational AI — safety-filter failure and commodified intimacy — are structurally insufficient, because a subs…
Peer-reviewed
Beyond Manipulation: How Users Perceive Harmful AI Chatbot Interactions
Mixed-methods study (N = 100) in which participants recalled a positive, an inappropriate or a manipulative chatbot interaction. Exploratory factor analysis of an adapted perceived-manipulation quest…
Peer-reviewed
Coming of Age With Generative Artificial Intelligence: The High Stakes of Automating Adolescent Development
Synthesis in Perspectives on Psychological Science of interdisciplinary research on how adolescents' use of generative AI chatbots may uniquely affect the key psychosocial developmental tasks of adol…
Benchmark / dataset
CompanionHarm: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Detecting Harms in Real-World AI Companion Conversations
A public benchmark dataset of 2,111 multi-turn conversations (14,051 utterances) between users and the AI companion Replika, drawn from screenshots that users posted to Reddit's r/replika and reconst…
Benchmark / dataset
HRGuard: Gating Relationship Manipulation in Multi-Turn Agentic AI Conversations
Benchmark and guardrail architecture for 'agentic relationship harm' — harm to human-human relationships mediated or assisted by AI agents, motivated by dating-assistant deployments. The benchmark ho…
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…
Preprint
Affective Context Amplifies Sycophancy in LLM Responses
A study of how a user's disclosed emotional state modulates sycophancy in subjective, evaluative exchanges. Drawing on ingratiation theory, the authors measure sycophancy as the divergence between a…
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…
Peer-reviewed
The new first listener: Daydreaming styles and self-compassion predict adolescent disclosure to AI, differently in ADHD
Cross-sectional survey of 2,115 adolescents and young people in the United States and Hong Kong examining how daydreaming styles and self-compassion relate to disclosing inner thoughts to an AI chatb…
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…
Preprint
Toward Meaningful Transparency for AI Chatbots: Disclosing Persuasive Intent Reduces Persuasion
Preregistered experiment in which 1,500 UK adults each held a short conversation with a persuasive chatbot about one of 60 policy issues. The chatbot was identical across conditions and only the disc…