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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…
Preprint
When Single-User-Oriented LLM-based Assistants Involve Others: A Scoping Review of Pathways, Risks, and Responses
A scoping review of 58 studies on how LLM-based assistants built around a single user come to involve other people, given that context management, personalisation, identity attribution, authority att…
Preprint
Reconceptualizing Age Assurance as a Sociotechnical Problem: Connecting Evidence, Evaluation, Claims, and Decisions
A review of 85 publications on children's age assurance from 2020 through February 2026 arguing that treating age verification as a technical accuracy problem is too narrow. Shared terms such as 'age…
Peer-reviewed
Stakeholder perspectives on artificial intelligence in schizophrenia care
A qualitative focus-group study at a New York City academic health centre reporting how people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, their caregivers and their providers view AI chatbots as a possib…
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.…
NGO report
2026台灣國中生手機及網路使用概況調查報告 (2026 Survey of Taiwanese Junior High School Students' Mobile Phone and Internet Use)
Survey of junior high school students (grades 7 to 9) across Taiwan on smartphone ownership, weekly internet time, parental rules and conflict, exposure to online risks and, in a new section, problem…
Regulator study
Children's Data Lives Year Three: The role of data in a changing digital landscape
Third wave of the UK Information Commissioner's Office's longitudinal ethnography of children's 'data lives', returning to 30 children aged 8 to 17 (19 for the third year) through filmed in-home inte…
Industry survey
Data: Americans Are Using Chatbots for Financial Advice. Risky or Rewarding?
NerdWallet study based on a Harris Poll online survey of 2,003 US adults, 496 of whom had used an AI chatbot for personal-finance questions. It reports usage, reasons for asking a chatbot rather than…
Peer-reviewed
Do Attachment Styles Shape ChatGPT Usage?
A mixed-methods study linking adult attachment style to how people actually use a general assistant, combining a survey with donated real conversation history. Attachment anxiety predicts emotional e…
Peer-reviewed
“CHAT WITH ME below as if I were a human”: Insights from Auditing AI Chatbots for Survivors of Domestic Violence
The first global characterisation of the chatbots that domestic-violence services put in front of survivors. The authors identify 36 such chatbots across 22 countries, document what privacy terms the…
NGO report
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…
Regulator study
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…
Preprint
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…
Government report
Chatten som fortrolig – En kvalitativ undersøgelse af unges brug af ChatGPT til social og følelsesmæssig støtte
Qualitative study of how young adults in Denmark use ChatGPT for social and emotional support, based on interviews with young users, chatbot dialogues they shared, and interviews with key informants…
Preprint
Examining Risks Through a Characterization of the AI Companion Application Ecosystem: A Stratified Sample from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
Systematic characterization of AI companion apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The authors identified 489 unique apps advertising social or relational AI companionship, then ran scree…
Preprint
The Governance of Intimacy: A Preliminary Policy Analysis of Romantic AI Platforms
A preliminary policy analysis comparing the privacy-policy and consent practices of six romantic/companion AI platforms across the GDPR, CCPA, and China's PIPL regimes, focused on the collection and…
NGO report
No License Required: The Risks of AI Companion Chatbots as Mental Health Support
Joint consumer-advocacy report testing five of the most-used generic "therapist" and "psychiatrist" characters on Character.AI through open-ended mental-health conversations. Documents three concern…
NGO report
AI in the Toy Box: How Parents View AI-Enabled Toys for Young Children
Nationally representative survey of 1,004 US parents of children aged 0 to 8 on ownership of, interest in, and concerns about AI-enabled toys and devices, fielded by SSRS in December 2025. The white…
NGO report
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,…
Standard
ISO/IEC 27566-1:2025 — Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Age assurance systems — Part 1: Framework
The first international standard for age assurance systems, establishing a technology-neutral framework and shared vocabulary for age-related eligibility decisions. It distinguishes age verification,…