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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…
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…
Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI
First report of the UN General Assembly-mandated Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, an independent body of scientists and experts from all five UN regions co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio a…
Development of a Consensus Statement to Guide AI Chatbot Responses to Suicide Risk Disclosure
An online modified Delphi study producing the first consensus statement on how generative AI chatbots should respond when a user discloses suicide risk, together with taxonomies of the potential harm…
IEEE 7014.1-2026 — Recommended Practice for Ethical Considerations of Emulated Empathy in Partner-Based General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems
Published recommended practice giving ethical guidance on the use of emulated empathy in general-purpose AI systems positioned as human-AI partnerships — products marketed as empathic partners, perso…
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…
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…
AI in Mental Health Roundtable Report
Report from a national roundtable convened by the Black Dog Institute (24 November 2025, Old Parliament House, Canberra) bringing together 40 experts across mental health, research, government, AI, a…
International AI Safety Report 2026
Second full edition of the international scientific synthesis on general-purpose AI risks, chaired by Yoshua Bengio with over 100 expert authors and an advisory panel nominated by more than 30 countr…
Generative AI: Product Safety Standards
UK Department for Education guidance setting mandatory safety expectations for generative AI products and systems used in schools and colleges in England, aimed at edtech developers and suppliers. A…
AI chatbots and online regulation – what you need to know
Ofcom's explainer sets out how AI chatbots fall within the UK Online Safety Act, published amid reports of chatbots imitating real and deceased people and encouraging self-harm and suicide. It clarif…
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,…
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…
Guidance on AI and Children (Version 3.0)
Version 3.0 of UNICEF's flagship child-rights framework on artificial intelligence, updating the 2021 Policy Guidance on AI for Children. It applies child-rights principles to the design, deployment,…
Protecting Teen ChatGPT Users: OpenAI's Teen Safety Blueprint
OpenAI's public commitments framework for protecting teenage ChatGPT users, covering age prediction, age-appropriate response policies, and parental controls, developed with input from policymakers (…
OpenAI Model Spec (October 27, 2025 version)
The October 27, 2025 version of OpenAI's Model Spec, the company's public specification of how its models are intended to behave, released into the public domain (CC0). It defines a five-level instru…
Beyond Engagement: A Multidimensional Framework to Evaluate the Safe Development of Agentic AI in Mental Health
Introduces a nine-domain framework for evaluating the safe development of agentic AI systems used in mental health — spanning clinical validity, relational risk, and regulatory compliance — and appli…
Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)
Non-binding European Commission guidance (reference C(2025) 5052 final) interpreting the AI Act's Article 5 prohibited-practices provisions, including manipulative/deceptive techniques and exploitati…
General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (EU AI Act, Articles 53 and 55)
Voluntary code of practice published 10 July 2025, drafted by 13 independent experts through a multi-stakeholder process (1,000+ participants) facilitated by the EU AI Office, to help providers of ge…
Tech Companies and Policymakers Must Safeguard Youth Mental Health in AI Technologies
A point-of-view/position statement from The Jed Foundation (JED), a leading US youth suicide-prevention nonprofit, setting out policy and design requirements for AI systems that interact with young p…