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Talking to machines: Children's experiences with AI assistants and companions
National survey report from Australia's eSafety Commissioner on children's use of AI assistants and companions, based on 1,950 children aged 10-17 surveyed in February-March 2026. Covers prevalence a…
Real-world use of large language models for mental health in 2024
Survey of 1,871 US adults conducted between August and October 2024, using stratified sampling across age, sex and race/ethnicity to approximate national demographics, measuring how many people use g…
Shieldstral
Technical report introducing Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter open-weights (Apache 2.0) policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier from Mistral AI. Content moderation is reformulated as binary question-…
Youth Perspectives on Online Safety, 2025
Sixth annual installment of Thorn's youth monitoring survey on US minors' online experiences and safety behaviors, surveying 1,003 minors aged 9-17 in late 2025. This wave adds questions on AI chatbo…
How AI Companies are Handling Suicide and Self-Harm Today
Drawing on a March 2026 multistakeholder workshop convening frontier AI companies, clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience, Partnership on AI presents a taxonomy of six intervention…
AI Chatbot Use and Disclosure for Mental Health Among US Adolescents and Young Adults
Cross-sectional, nationally representative survey (RAND American Life Panel, November 2025) of US youth aged 12-21 measuring prevalence and disclosure of using AI chatbots for mental-health advice. R…
What's on Your Mind? Exploring Privacy of Mental Health Apps
An empirical privacy analysis of 25 popular Android mental-health, therapy, and companion apps — including conversational-AI chatbots such as Replika, Talkie, Pi, Woebot, Wysa, and Youper — combining…
Public use of a generalist LLM chatbot for health queries
Peer-reviewed analysis of over 500,000 de-identified health-related Microsoft Copilot consumer conversations from January 2026 (N=617,827 after exclusions), classified with a 12-category hierarchical…
How Teens Use and View AI
Nationally representative survey of 1,458 US teens (13-17) and their parents on awareness, use, and attitudes toward AI, including chatbot use for conversation and emotional support. Reports adoption…
AI Companions: Community Reflections and Multistakeholder Recommendations
A report from the responsible-technology nonprofit All Tech Is Human, combining a 108-response community survey with input from a multidisciplinary working group of 25+ contributors across academia,…
Global Threat Assessment 2025: Preventing Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Biennial multi-stakeholder threat assessment of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (2023-2025), synthesising prevalence and trend data and framing generative AI, AI chatbots, and deepfakes as…
Uncensored AI in the Wild: Tracking Publicly Available and Locally Deployable LLMs
Peer-reviewed study tracking the ecosystem of openly downloadable, locally deployable large language models that have been modified to remove safety guardrails. Analyzes 8,608 model repositories on p…
6(b) Orders to File Special Report Regarding Advertising, Safety, and Data Handling Practices by Companies Offering Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Companion Products or Services
The US Federal Trade Commission issued compulsory Section 6(b) orders to seven companies operating consumer-facing AI companion chatbots — Alphabet, Character Technologies, Instagram, Meta Platforms,…
Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions
A nationally representative survey study of how US teenagers use social AI companion platforms. Common Sense Media surveyed 1,060 teens aged 13-17 in April-May 2025 and found that 72% have used AI co…
Me, Myself & AI: Understanding and Safeguarding Children's Use of AI Chatbots
A UK mixed-methods study of children's use of AI chatbots, combining a survey of children and parents, focus groups with 13-17-year-olds, and 17-day user-testing of ChatGPT, Snapchat My AI, and Chara…