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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…
Lab publication
An Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
Seven-page policy document in which OpenAI sets out six pillars it proposes for Australian youth-AI policy: recognising positive uses and AI literacy in education; privacy-preserving age assurance; u…
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…
Framework
网络安全标准实践指南——人工智能应用安全指引 教育 (TC260-PG-20269A) [Practice Guide for Cybersecurity Standards: Security Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Applications: Education]
Sector practice guide (23 pages) released together with the general AI Application Security Guidelines and companion guides for health and for broadcasting and online audiovisual services. It sets ge…
Preprint
When AI Companions Disappear: Relational Continuity and Collective Contestation during China's National AI Regulatory Transition
Qualitative study of how AI companion users responded when multiple providers implemented China's 2026 regulation of anthropomorphic AI interaction services. The authors collected RedNote (Xiaohongsh…
Framework
AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 (人工智能安全治理框架3.0)
Third edition of China's national AI Safety Governance Framework, released by TC260 at the opening of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week under the guidance of the Cyberspace Administratio…
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…
Government report
Unabhängige Expertenkommission „Kinder- und Jugendschutz in der digitalen Welt“ – Abschlussbericht
The 319-page final report of the German federal government's independent expert commission on child and youth protection in the digital world, delivered after roughly a year of hearings and workshops…
Regulator study
Online Safety and Children's Digital Lives: Report of a National Survey of Children and their Parents/Caregivers
A 232-page report of Ireland's first regulator-run national survey of children's online lives, based on in-home face-to-face interviews with 1,002 children aged 9 to 17 and a parent or caregiver of e…
Government report
National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare: Recommendations for a future regulatory framework
Final report of the UK National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare, established in September 2025 to advise government on a regulatory framework for software and AI-enabled health tec…
Peer-reviewed
Friends in our phones? Legal responses to AI companions
A legal and philosophical analysis of how existing and emerging law responds to AI companions, built around three foundational cases: two lawsuits against chatbot providers and a Federal Trade Commis…
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…
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…
Government report
Supplementary Report: AI Chatbots: Companionship & Minors
Staff report of Virginia's legislative technology commission, supplementing its 2025 AI-chatbot study after two bills, HB 635 (Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Act) and SB 796 (Artificial Intelligenc…
Peer-reviewed
Reaching the last mile? How Design Decisions Shape Medical Device Qualification and Classification of Patient Support Chatbots In The EU
A design-oriented regulatory analysis of a chatbot supporting stroke survivors, in which HCI researchers and legal scholars use Design Space Analysis (the Questions, Options, Criteria framework) to t…
Peer-reviewed
Technically Love: The Evolution of Human–AI Romance Discourse on Reddit
A longitudinal analysis of self-disclosed romantic AI-companion posts on Reddit from 2017 to 2025, using topic modelling and temporal statistics on a high-precision dataset of about 3,300 posts to id…
Framework
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…
Framework
Transparency Guidelines for Generative AI Chatbots
Voluntary guidelines from Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority setting out how deployers of generative-AI chatbots should give consumers transparency through a 'chatbot info card', a sing…
Government report
Children's wellbeing online: social media quantitative and qualitative report
UK government-commissioned mixed-method study, delivered by a consortium led by Savanta with UK Youth, Volunteering Matters and the #iWill Movement, of how parents, children and young people, and tea…