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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…
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…
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…
Beyond "I Can't Help With That": How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety
Interview study with 19 practitioners who work directly with youth in vulnerable situations — social workers, therapists and psychologists — asking them to assess chatbot responses to risky situation…
GPT-5.6 – August Updates
System-card addendum for the August 2026 releases of GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6 Luna. For the first time, OpenAI includes dedicated under-18 evaluations measuring model behavior against teen-specific sa…
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…
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…
AI chatbots and youth suicide risk: current evidence, critical gaps, and a clinical research agenda
Review by researchers at Crisis Text Line examining how general-purpose chatbots and AI companions detect and respond to suicide-risk disclosures from young people, and what the existing evidence can…
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…
Teens and Explicit Deepfakes in the Age of AI
Nationally representative survey of 1,314 US teens aged 13-17, fielded fall 2025, on exposure to and creation of AI-generated explicit sexual material. Documents widespread exposure, personal victimi…
Guidelines on the implementation of the transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of the AI Act
Commission guidelines (C(2026) 5054 final, adopted 20 July 2026) interpreting the AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations that apply from 2 August 2026, including the duty to disclose to users tha…
Alerting Parents if Teens Show Signs of Distress in Conversations With Meta AI
Meta newsroom announcement that supervising parents using Instagram parental supervision will be proactively alerted when a teen's conversation with Meta AI suggests possible suicide or self-harm ris…
System Card: Claude Fable 5 & Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic's 317-page system card for Claude Fable 5 (general-release) and Claude Mythos 5 (restricted trusted-access release), the two safeguard configurations of a new frontier model. Alongside exte…
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…
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…
Synthetic Empathy: Risks and Rights in Artificial Companionship
A consumer-organisation and law-clinic report examining the risks that AI companion chatbots pose to European consumers under current legal frameworks, based on desk research plus hands-on testing of…
The spread of AI companions and the challenges they generate
An EPRS briefing for the European Parliament surveying the rapid growth of LLM-powered companion platforms (such as Character.AI and Replika) and their social, psychological, commercial, and environm…
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…
AI Mental Health Apps (Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute Risk Assessment)
Risk assessment of five AI mental health apps — three direct-to-consumer (Wysa, Earkick, Youper) and two deployed through school districts (Alongside, Sonar) — tested against an eight-principle rubri…