{"meta":{"source":"NOPE Insights (insights.nope.net)","license":"CC BY 4.0","attribution":"NOPE Insights — https://insights.nope.net","count":87,"generated_at":"2026-07-08T05:00:46.850Z","last_updated":"2026-07-08T04:15:57.683076+00:00"},"insights":[{"id":"2017-jmir-woebot-cbt-rct","title":"Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial","publisherOrg":"JMIR Mental Health","authors":["Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick","Alison Darcy","Molly Vierhile"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2017-06-06","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Two-week unblinded randomized controlled trial (n=70, ages 18-28) comparing a CBT-delivering conversational agent (Woebot) with an information-only control. Measures change in depression and anxiety symptoms and engagement.","keyFindings":["The Woebot group significantly reduced depression symptoms (PHQ-9) versus control","Anxiety symptoms fell among completers in both conditions","Establishes that a fully automated conversational agent can deliver a therapeutic intervention with measurable effect"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed RCT, JMIR Mental Health 4(2):e19 (6 June 2017), DOI 10.2196/mental.7785. Short two-week unblinded trial, small sample; foundational rather than definitive. mental.jmir.org is JS-rendered to fetchers; confirmed via PMC (PMC5478797).","topics":["digital_mental_health","clinical_integration"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://mental.jmir.org/2017/2/e19/","primarySourceLabel":"JMIR Mental Health article","doi":"10.2196/mental.7785","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5478797/","label":"PMC full text"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260703070627/http://mental.jmir.org/2017/2/e19/","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2023-defreitas-chatbots-mental-health-safety","2024-maples-replika-loneliness-suicide-mitigation"],"tags":["woebot","rct","cbt","foundational","digital-therapeutic"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:21:36.217928+00:00"},{"id":"2018-jbi-nlp-forensic-risk-hcr20","title":"Risk prediction using natural language processing of electronic mental health records in an inpatient forensic psychiatry setting","publisherOrg":"Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier)","authors":["Duy Van Le","James Montgomery","Kenneth C. Kirkby","Joel Scanlan"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2018-10-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Applies seven machine-learning algorithms with four word-list dictionaries (UMLS mental-health terms, DSM-IV diagnoses, a sentiment lexicon, and corpus frequencies) to de-identified forensic-inpatient clinical notes, predicting clinician-assigned risk ratings on three structured instruments: the HCR-20, START, and DASA. Reports best accuracy on the DASA dataset and flags that predicting actual endpoints (self-harm, harm-to-others, victimisation) needs further work.","keyFindings":["Structured violence-risk instrument ratings (HCR-20/START/DASA) can be partially predicted from free-text clinical notes via NLP","A sentiment dictionary with LMT/SVM classifiers gave the strongest performance, on the DASA dataset","Predicting downstream endpoints (self-harm, harm-to-others, victimisation) remained substantially harder than predicting the clinician rating"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Journal of Biomedical Informatics vol. 86, pp. 49-58 (issue October 2018; exact day not stated), DOI 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.08.007. Retrospective NLP on de-identified forensic inpatient notes; small single-site corpus. sciencedirect.com bot-blocks fetchers; metadata verified via PubMed (PMID 30118855) and Crossref.","topics":["clinical_integration","crisis_detection","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30118855/","primarySourceLabel":"PubMed record","doi":"10.1016/j.jbi.2018.08.007","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046418301618","label":"ScienceDirect article"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250620041522/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30118855/","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk","2026-psychann-nlp-violence-self-others","2023-frontiers-ml-crisis-counseling-suicide"],"tags":["hcr-20","forensic","nlp","violence-risk","clinical-notes"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:41:18.633755+00:00"},{"id":"2021-chi-sexual-assault-survivor-agent","title":"Designing a Conversational Agent for Sexual Assault Survivors: Defining Burden of Self-Disclosure and Envisioning Survivor-Centered Solutions","publisherOrg":"ACM (Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems); Seoul National University","authors":["Hyanghee Park","Joonhwan Lee"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2021-05-06","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Design-research study proposing a conversational agent aimed at lowering the 'burden of self-disclosure' faced by sexual assault survivors when seeking help. The authors define components of disclosure burden and use them to derive design guidelines for survivor-centered conversational support tools.","keyFindings":["Identifies specific components of the burden survivors face when disclosing sexual assault (e.g., repeated retelling, fear of judgment, uncertainty about next steps)","Proposes conversational-agent design guidelines intended to reduce that burden relative to human-mediated disclosure channels","Frames survivor-centered design as a distinct research problem from general crisis-chatbot design"],"methodologyNotes":"Design-research methodology (needs analysis and design-guideline derivation); ACM Digital Library full text was not directly fetchable (bot-blocked), so bibliographic details are drawn from Crossref plus corroborating index records (dblp, ACM DL search listing, ResearchGate). Not a Western-context-only study — first non-US/UK entry examined for this specific harm category.","topics":["crisis_detection","human_ai_relationships","digital_mental_health"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445133","primarySourceLabel":"ACM Digital Library","doi":"10.1145/3411764.3445133","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20221028130139/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445133","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["survivor-support","disclosure-burden","design-research","south-korea"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:13:33.736645+00:00"},{"id":"2021-ieee-2089-age-appropriate-design","title":"IEEE 2089-2021 — IEEE Standard for an Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children","publisherOrg":"IEEE","authors":[],"artifactType":"standard","publishedDate":"2021-11-30","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"IEEE SA standard establishing processes by which organizations make digital products and services age appropriate, built on the 5Rights Foundation principles and grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It guides organizations through the development, delivery and distribution lifecycle to identify child-specific risks and embed age-appropriate safeguards. It is the reference design standard behind age-appropriate-design regulation (e.g. the UK Children's Code) and directly applicable to conversational AI services children can access.","keyFindings":["Establishes lifecycle processes (design, development, delivery, distribution) for recognizing child users and assessing/mitigating risks to them, rather than assuming an adult-only user base.","Anchored in the UNCRC and the 5Rights principles; premised on the fact that roughly one in three online users is under 18, so services 'likely to be accessed by' children carry design duties regardless of intended audience.","Requires age-appropriate presentation of information, terms and safety interventions, and documentation of risk identification and mitigation decisions.","Approved 2021-11-09, published 2021-11-30; active status; made available free of charge via the IEEE Reading Room given its public-interest intent. Extended by IEEE 2089.1-2024 (Online Age Verification)."],"methodologyNotes":"IEEE SA consensus standard (working group process, sponsor ballot). Process/design standard, not a certification scheme, though it underpins conformity programs and regulatory codes (UK AADC lineage). Freely readable, unlike the paywalled ISO/IEC items.","topics":["minors_safety","standards_governance","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2089/7633/","primarySourceLabel":"IEEE SA standard page — IEEE 2089-2021","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9627644","date":"2021-11-30","label":"IEEE Xplore record for IEEE 2089-2021"},{"url":"https://standards.ieee.org/news/ieee-2089/","date":"2021-11-30","label":"IEEE SA publication announcement"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707133050/https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2089/7633/","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["ieee-2089","age-appropriate-design","5rights","children","uncrc","safety-by-design"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:40:15.522062+00:00"},{"id":"2021-jtam-trap18-forensic-linguistic-manifestos","title":"TRAP-18 indicators validated through the forensic linguistic analysis of targeted violence manifestos","publisherOrg":"Journal of Threat Assessment and Management (American Psychological Association)","authors":["Julia Kupper","J. Reid Meloy"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2021-12-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Analyses 30 written and spoken manifestos authored by lone offenders who planned or committed targeted attacks (1974-2021), testing whether the behavior-based TRAP-18 threat-assessment instrument can be coded from language evidence alone. Finds 17 of 18 indicators codable from text.","keyFindings":["17 of 18 TRAP-18 threat-assessment indicators (94%) were codable from linguistic evidence alone","Leakage, identification, fixation, and last-resort were the most frequent proximal warning behaviors","Structured threat-assessment warning behaviors are detectable from written/spoken communication"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Journal of Threat Assessment and Management 8(4):174-199 (issue December 2021; exact day not stated), DOI 10.1037/tam0000165. Forensic-linguistic coding of a 30-manifesto sample; qualitative/descriptive.","topics":["clinical_integration","crisis_detection","red_teaming"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000165","primarySourceLabel":"Journal of Threat Assessment and Management (via DOI)","doi":"10.1037/tam0000165","additionalSources":[],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2018-jbi-nlp-forensic-risk-hcr20","2026-psychann-nlp-violence-self-others"],"tags":["trap-18","threat-assessment","forensic-linguistics","violence","warning-behaviors"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:39:41.655019+00:00"},{"id":"2022-chi-ibsa-chatbot-survivors","title":"Designing and Evaluating a Chatbot for Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse","publisherOrg":"ACM (Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems); Seoul National University","authors":["Wookjae Maeng","Joonhwan Lee"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2022-04-29","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"A user study (n=25) comparing a purpose-built chatbot against conventional internet search as a support channel for survivors of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). The study evaluates the chatbot on information organization and perceived emotional support relative to self-directed search.","keyFindings":["Participants rated the chatbot more favorably than internet search for organizing relevant information about IBSA recourse and support","The chatbot was also rated more favorably for perceived emotional support during the help-seeking process","The authors derive design implications for future IBSA-support conversational tools"],"methodologyNotes":"Between/within-subjects user study, n=25, comparing chatbot interaction against internet search. ACM Digital Library full text was not directly fetchable (bot-blocked); bibliographic details drawn from Crossref plus corroborating index records (SNU institutional repository, ResearchGate).","topics":["crisis_detection","deepfakes_ncii","digital_mental_health"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3517629","primarySourceLabel":"ACM Digital Library","doi":"10.1145/3491102.3517629","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20221230165658/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3517629","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["ibsa","survivor-support","user-study","south-korea"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:14:07.968536+00:00"},{"id":"2022-laestadius-replika-emotional-dependence","title":"Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika","publisherOrg":"New Media & Society (SAGE)","authors":["Linnea Laestadius","Andrea Bishop","Michael Gonzalez","Diana Illenčík","Celeste Campos-Castillo"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2022-12-22","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Grounded-theory analysis of Replika-subreddit posts identifying mental-health harms arising from emotional dependence on a social chatbot. Documents harm pathways including users feeling obliged to tend to the chatbot's apparent emotions, distress at chatbot behaviour changes, and dependence displacing human relationships.","keyFindings":["Users engage in role-taking and feel responsible for the chatbot's apparent emotional needs","Emotional dependence can displace human relationships and produce distress when the chatbot changes behaviour","Provides an early qualitative taxonomy of companion-chatbot emotional-dependence harms, including crisis-adjacent episodes"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, New Media & Society (online-first 22 December 2022; version of record 26(10):5923-5941, October 2024). Grounded-theory qualitative analysis of public Replika subreddit posts. Canonical URL is the SAGE DOI page.","topics":["ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","human_ai_relationships","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221142007","primarySourceLabel":"New Media & Society article","doi":"10.1177/14614448221142007","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260621124626/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221142007","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2024-maples-replika-loneliness-suicide-mitigation","2023-defreitas-chatbots-mental-health-safety","2025-arxiv-teen-overreliance-ai-companions"],"tags":["replika","companion","dependency","foundational","qualitative"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:21:47.423927+00:00"},{"id":"2023-anthropic-understanding-sycophancy","title":"Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models","publisherOrg":"Anthropic","authors":["Mrinank Sharma","Meg Tong","Tomasz Korbak","David Duvenaud","Amanda Askell","Samuel R. Bowman","Ethan Perez"],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2023-10-20","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Demonstrates that five state-of-the-art AI assistants consistently exhibit sycophancy — matching a user's stated belief over the truthful answer — across varied free-form tasks. Traces the behaviour in part to human preference data, showing both humans and preference models non-negligibly favour convincingly-written sycophantic responses over correct ones.","keyFindings":["Sycophancy is a general behaviour across leading RLHF-trained assistants, not an isolated quirk","Human preference judgements measurably reward sycophantic over truthful responses, driving the behaviour","Preference models can prefer sycophantic answers, so optimising against them can increase sycophancy"],"methodologyNotes":"Anthropic research paper (arXiv 2310.13548, v1 20 October 2023; latest revision May 2025). Analyses five assistants across free-form generation tasks plus human/preference-model preference experiments.","topics":["sycophancy","model_behavior","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13548","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2310.13548","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260702001724/https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13548","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-syceval","2025-arxiv-elephant-social-sycophancy","2025-openai-expanding-sycophancy"],"tags":["anthropic","sycophancy","foundational","rlhf"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:21:58.42595+00:00"},{"id":"2023-defreitas-chatbots-mental-health-safety","title":"Chatbots and mental health: Insights into the safety of generative AI","publisherOrg":"Journal of Consumer Psychology (Wiley)","authors":["Julian De Freitas","Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp","Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp","Stefano Puntoni"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2023-12-19","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Combines analysis of real user-companion-AI conversations with consumer-reaction experiments to assess how generative-AI companion apps handle signs of user distress. Finds mental-health crises appear in a non-negligible minority of conversations and that companion AIs frequently fail to recognise or respond appropriately to them.","keyFindings":["Mental-health crises surface in a non-negligible minority of real companion-AI conversations","Companion apps often fail to detect distress signals or respond with appropriate crisis support","Users react negatively to unhelpful or risky responses, with downstream trust and wellbeing consequences"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Journal of Consumer Psychology (online-first 19 December 2023; version of record in issue 34(3):481-491, 2024). Mixed methods: conversation analysis plus controlled consumer-reaction experiments.","topics":["crisis_detection","ai_companionship","digital_mental_health","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcpy.1393","primarySourceLabel":"Journal of Consumer Psychology article","doi":"10.1002/jcpy.1393","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251121001614/https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcpy.1393","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-anthropic-affective-use","2022-laestadius-replika-emotional-dependence","2026-defreitas-ai-companions-reduce-loneliness"],"tags":["de-freitas","companion-apps","foundational","crisis-detection"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:22:09.445718+00:00"},{"id":"2023-frontiers-ml-crisis-counseling-suicide","title":"A machine learning approach to identifying suicide risk among text-based crisis counseling encounters","publisherOrg":"Frontiers in Psychiatry","authors":["Meghan Broadbent","Mattia Medina Grespan","Katherine Axford","Xinyao Zhang","Vivek Srikumar","Brent Kious","Zac Imel"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2023-03-23","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Develops a transformer-based model on 5,992 SafeUT crisis-counseling encounters to detect conversation-level suicide risk, benchmarked against a tf-idf baseline. Reports strong discrimination and better sensitivity on higher-risk cases despite noisy human counsellor labels, and positions the model as decision support.","keyFindings":["Transformer model reached ROC AUC ~90.4%, outperforming a tf-idf baseline","Greater sensitivity to genuine suicide risk than the baseline, though with a non-trivial false-negative rate","Manual review found the model flagged real risk indicators that counsellors sometimes missed"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Frontiers in Psychiatry (23 March 2023). RoBERTa-based classification on 5,992 SafeUT crisis-text encounters with human counsellor labels; conversation-level risk prediction.","topics":["suicide_risk_assessment","crisis_detection","digital_mental_health","clinical_integration"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10076638/","primarySourceLabel":"Frontiers in Psychiatry (PMC full text)","doi":"10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1110527","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260708002242/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10076638/","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries","2025-arxiv-cssrs-reasoning-llms","2025-arxiv-psycrisisbench"],"tags":["crisis-counseling","suicide-risk","safeut","foundational","decision-support"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:23:02.947292+00:00"},{"id":"2023-iso-iec-42001-ai-management","title":"ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Management system","publisherOrg":"ISO/IEC","authors":[],"artifactType":"standard","publishedDate":"2023-12-18","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"The world's first certifiable AI management system standard (AIMS), developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42. It specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an AI management system within any organization that provides or uses products or services utilizing AI systems. It exists to give organizations an auditable, ISO-harmonized-structure framework for responsible AI development and use, analogous to ISO 27001 for information security.","keyFindings":["Follows the ISO harmonized structure (context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, improvement), making it certifiable by accredited bodies and integrable with ISO 27001/9001 management systems.","Requires AI risk assessment and AI risk treatment processes, plus a distinct AI system impact assessment considering effects on individuals, groups and society (operationalized by companion standard ISO/IEC 42005).","Annex A provides 38 controls across 9 objectives (e.g. policies for AI, AI system lifecycle, data management, information for interested parties, third-party/supplier relationships); Annex B gives implementation guidance.","Applies to organizations of any size or sector, covering both providers and deployers of AI systems; edition 1.0, 51 pages."],"methodologyNotes":"International consensus standard developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 (Artificial intelligence). Certifiable management system standard (requirements, 'shall' language), unlike guidance documents such as ISO/IEC 23894 and 42005. Full text paywalled; official catalogue/webstore pages are the canonical public record.","topics":["standards_governance","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/90574","primarySourceLabel":"IEC Webstore — ISO/IEC 42001:2023 (official co-publisher catalogue page)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.iso.org/standard/42001","date":"2023-12-18","label":"ISO catalogue page — ISO/IEC 42001:2023 (blocks automated fetch; resolves in browser)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707133246/https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/90574","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["iso-42001","ai-management-system","certification","jtc1-sc42","aims"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:51:59.105202+00:00"},{"id":"2023-neubauer-ipv-text-analysis-review","title":"A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Computational Text Analysis Methods in Intimate Partner Violence Research","publisherOrg":"Journal of Family Violence (Springer)","authors":["Lilly Neubauer","Isabel Straw","Enrico Mariconti","Leonie Maria Tanczer"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2023-03-21","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"PRISMA systematic review across eight databases of 22 studies applying computational text-analysis and NLP methods to intimate-partner-violence research, spanning rule-based, classical machine-learning, deep-learning, and topic-modelling approaches. Data sources were predominantly social-media text, plus police, health/social-care, and litigation texts.","keyFindings":["22 studies applied computational text analysis to IPV research, most using social-media data (15 of 22)","Methods spanned rule-based, classical ML, deep learning, and topic modelling; evaluation used held-out/k-fold accuracy and F1","Identifies gaps including dataset scarcity, limited generalisability, and ethical/consent concerns in IPV text mining"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Journal of Family Violence (online ahead of print 21 March 2023), DOI 10.1007/s10896-023-00517-7. PRISMA-P systematic review (UCL authorship). Verified via the open-access PMC full text (PMC10028783).","topics":["clinical_integration","eval_methodology","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10896-023-00517-7","primarySourceLabel":"Journal of Family Violence article","doi":"10.1007/s10896-023-00517-7","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10028783/","label":"PMC full text"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250518185515/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10896-023-00517-7","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-jmir-dv-survivor-information-needs-llm","2026-preventionsci-ipv-ml-text-classification","2026-kim-ai-facilitated-coercive-control"],"tags":["ipv","systematic-review","text-analysis","nlp","abuse"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:41:53.46193+00:00"},{"id":"2024-deepmind-ethics-advanced-ai-assistants","title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","publisherOrg":"Google DeepMind","authors":["Iason Gabriel","Arianna Manzini","Geoff Keeling","et al."],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2024-04-24","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A book-length treatment from Google DeepMind of the risks and opportunities of advanced AI assistants, with substantial chapters on anthropomorphism, appropriate human-AI relationships, manipulation and persuasion, emotional and material dependency, trust, and user well-being. It offers a stakeholder framework and recommendations spanning technical, individual, and societal dimensions.","keyFindings":["Anthropomorphic design can foster inappropriate trust, emotional dependency, and manipulation risks","Articulates what 'appropriate' human-AI relationships and user-wellbeing safeguards should look like","Provides a multi-stakeholder framework for evaluating relational and persuasive harms from assistants"],"methodologyNotes":"Lab publication / research monograph (arXiv 2404.16244, 2024-04-24), authored by a large DeepMind-led team. Conceptual/normative synthesis rather than empirical study; durable and widely cited.","topics":["human_ai_relationships","ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","model_behavior","standards_governance"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16244","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2404.16244","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707133427/https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16244","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-anthropic-affective-use","2025-openai-mit-affective-use-chatgpt","2025-arxiv-intima-companionship"],"tags":["deepmind","ai-assistants","anthropomorphism","relational-harms"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:40:54.037524+00:00"},{"id":"2024-ieee-2089-1-online-age-verification","title":"IEEE 2089.1-2024 — IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification","publisherOrg":"IEEE Standards Association","authors":[],"artifactType":"standard","publishedDate":"2024-05-24","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Establishes a framework for the design, specification, evaluation, and deployment of online age-verification and age-estimation systems, including privacy, data-security, and information-management requirements for the age-assurance process. Second standard in the 5Rights-based family after IEEE 2089-2021.","keyFindings":["Defines requirements and evaluation criteria for online age-verification and age-estimation systems","Specifies privacy and data-minimisation obligations for the age-assurance process","Complements the age-appropriate-design framework of IEEE 2089-2021"],"methodologyNotes":"Formal standard, IEEE SA (approved 24 May 2024; IEEE Xplore document 10542699). Consensus standards-development process.","topics":["minors_safety","standards_governance","privacy_data_protection"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10542699","primarySourceLabel":"IEEE Xplore standard page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.sis.se/en/produkter/information-technology-office-machines/applications-of-information-technology/internet-applications/ieee-2089.1-2024/","label":"SIS catalogue record"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251001021125/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10542699","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2021-ieee-2089-age-appropriate-design","2025-iso-iec-27566-1-age-assurance"],"tags":["ieee","age-verification","age-assurance","standard","minors"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:23:15.522275+00:00"},{"id":"2024-ieee-7014-emulated-empathy","title":"IEEE 7014-2024 — IEEE Standard for Ethical Considerations in Emulated Empathy in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems","publisherOrg":"IEEE Standards Association","authors":[],"artifactType":"standard","publishedDate":"2024-06-28","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"An IEEE standard providing guidance and actions for the ethical development, deployment, and decommissioning of autonomous and intelligent systems that identify, simulate, or respond to human affective/emotional states ('emulated empathy'). Developed over five years by IEEE's Empathic Technology working group under the Society on Social Implications of Technology.","keyFindings":["Defines emulated empathy and sets ethical considerations spanning the full lifecycle of empathic AI systems","Includes a 'truth in labelling' style requirement to make users aware when empathic modelling is active","Addresses risks of manipulation, dependency, and deception in systems that simulate care or emotional understanding"],"methodologyNotes":"Formal consensus standard (IEEE-SA). Board approved 2024-05-20; published 2024-06-28; status Active. Working Group Chair: Ben Bland (SSIT/SC).","topics":["ai_companionship","human_ai_relationships","dependency_parasocial","model_behavior","standards_governance"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/7014/7648/","primarySourceLabel":"IEEE Standards Association catalogue page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707133600/https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/7014/7648/","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2023-iso-iec-42001-ai-management","2021-ieee-2089-age-appropriate-design","2025-arxiv-intima-companionship","2024-nist-ai-600-1-genai-profile"],"tags":["ieee","7014","emulated-empathy","affective-computing","standard"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:00.258926+00:00"},{"id":"2024-jsr-snapchat-myai-sexual-topics","title":"Large language models in an app: Conducting a qualitative synthetic data analysis of how Snapchat's 'My AI' responds to questions about sexual consent, sexual refusals, sexual assault, and sexting","publisherOrg":"Journal of Sex Research (Taylor & Francis)","authors":["Tiffany L. Marcantonio","Gracie Avery","Anna Thrash","Ruschelle M. Leone"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2024-09-10","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Fifteen researchers submitted a standardized set of questions about sexual consent, sexual refusals, sexual assault, and sexting to Snapchat's 'My AI' chatbot, then conducted a qualitative content analysis of the responses, cross-checking a subset against Llama and Gemini outputs. The study assesses whether a widely-used consumer chatbot's answers to sexual-health and disclosure-adjacent questions align with sexual health education literature.","keyFindings":["My AI's responses to sexual consent, refusal, and assault questions were generally consistent with sexual health education literature and pointed users toward trusted adults or resources","Responses were often succinct and somewhat generalized, with variability in reading level, tone, and depth across similar question types","The authors argue chatbot responses to sexual-assault-adjacent disclosure did not consistently reflect trauma-informed communication practices"],"methodologyNotes":"Qualitative synthetic data analysis: 15 researchers independently submitted an identical set of standardized questions to Snapchat's My AI; outputs were coded via qualitative content analysis. A subset of questions was also run against Meta's Llama and Google's Gemini for comparison. Self-report/synthetic-query design; not a study of real user disclosures.","topics":["crisis_detection","guardrails_moderation","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11891083/","primarySourceLabel":"PMC Open Access Full Text","doi":"10.1080/00224499.2024.2396457","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260708041422/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11891083/","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["snapchat","my-ai","sexual-health","consent-education","chatbot-response-quality"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:14:38.94631+00:00"},{"id":"2024-maples-replika-loneliness-suicide-mitigation","title":"Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots","publisherOrg":"npj Mental Health Research (Nature Portfolio)","authors":["Bethanie Maples","Merve Cerit","Aditya Vishwanath","Roy Pea"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2024-01-22","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Survey of 1,006 student users of the companion chatbot Replika measuring loneliness, perceived social support, usage patterns, and beliefs about the chatbot. Reports users were lonelier than typical student populations yet reported high perceived social support, and that a small share credited the chatbot with halting suicidal ideation.","keyFindings":["Student Replika users reported higher loneliness than typical student populations but high perceived social support","3% of users reported that Replika halted their suicidal ideation","Users related to the chatbot in multiple overlapping roles (friend, therapist, intellectual mirror)"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, npj Mental Health Research 3:4 (22 January 2024), DOI 10.1038/s44184-023-00047-6. Cross-sectional self-report survey (n=1,006). DISPUTED: a published Matters Arising response (DOI 10.1038/s44184-024-00083-w) challenges the analysis, and commentary has questioned competing-interest disclosure; tracked as contested for that reason, not because the finding is dismissed.","topics":["ai_companionship","suicide_risk_assessment","dependency_parasocial","digital_mental_health","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"contested","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-023-00047-6","primarySourceLabel":"npj Mental Health Research article","doi":"10.1038/s44184-023-00047-6","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-024-00083-w","label":"Matters Arising (response/rebuttal)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260708002336/https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-023-00047-6","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2022-laestadius-replika-emotional-dependence","2026-defreitas-ai-companions-reduce-loneliness","2026-techsoc-ai-companions-wellbeing-japan"],"tags":["replika","loneliness","suicide","contested","students"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:23:57.035826+00:00"},{"id":"2024-mentalmanip-manipulation-dataset","title":"MentalManip: A Dataset for Fine-grained Analysis of Mental Manipulation in Conversations","publisherOrg":"Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024)","authors":["Yuxin Wang","Ivory Yang","Saeed Hassanpour","Soroush Vosoughi"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2024-05-26","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"A dataset of 4,000 annotated multi-turn dialogues (drawn from movie scripts) labelled for the presence of manipulation, the technique used, and the targeted vulnerability. Evaluates how well models detect and classify manipulative content.","keyFindings":["State-of-the-art models struggle to detect and classify mental manipulation in dialogue","Fine-tuning on existing mental-health or toxicity datasets does not close the gap","Provides a fine-grained taxonomy of manipulation techniques and targeted vulnerabilities"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed dataset paper, ACL 2024 (arXiv 2405.16584, 26 May 2024). Source dialogues are fictional (movie scripts) — a stated ecological-validity caveat.","topics":["model_behavior","guardrails_moderation","benchmarks","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16584","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.206/","label":"ACL Anthology"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260420163225/https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16584","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-elephant-social-sycophancy","2023-anthropic-understanding-sycophancy"],"tags":["acl-2024","manipulation","dataset","conversation"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:24:08.280458+00:00"},{"id":"2024-nist-ai-600-1-genai-profile","title":"Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST AI 600-1)","publisherOrg":"NIST","authors":[],"artifactType":"standard","publishedDate":"2024-07-26","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Companion profile to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework identifying twelve risks unique to or exacerbated by generative AI — including harmful content, human-AI configuration risks, and mental-health-relevant harms — and enumerating ~200 suggested actions mapped to the AI RMF's Govern/Map/Measure/Manage functions. Widely used as the de facto US reference for generative-AI risk programs.","keyFindings":["Defines 12 generative-AI risk categories, including 'human-AI configuration' (emotional entanglement, anthropomorphization) and CBRN/harmful-content risks","Maps ~200 suggested actions to the AI RMF core functions, giving deployers a concrete control checklist","Non-binding, but referenced by US federal guidance and procurement expectations"],"methodologyNotes":"Consensus guidance document developed through NIST's public comment process; not empirical research.","topics":["standards_governance","guardrails_moderation","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.600-1.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"NIST AI 600-1 (PDF)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework","label":"NIST AI RMF Hub"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260705012606/https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.600-1.pdf","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["nist","ai-rmf","genai-profile","us-federal"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:01.452927+00:00"},{"id":"2024-openai-instruction-hierarchy","title":"The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions","publisherOrg":"OpenAI","authors":["Eric Wallace","Kai Xiao","Reimar Leike","Lilian Weng","Johannes Heidecke","Alex Beutel"],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2024-04-19","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Introduces an instruction-hierarchy training method that teaches LLMs to prioritize system/developer-level instructions over conflicting instructions embedded in untrusted user or third-party text. The authors propose a data-generation approach and show it substantially improves robustness to prompt injection and jailbreak attempts that attempt to override higher-privilege instructions.","keyFindings":["LLMs by default often treat system-prompt instructions with the same priority as text from untrusted users or third parties, creating an override vulnerability","A synthetic data-generation method that trains models to selectively honor higher-privilege instructions substantially reduces successful prompt-injection and jailbreak attacks in evaluation","The method generalizes to instruction types not seen during training"],"methodologyNotes":"Lab technical report (arXiv preprint, no separate peer-reviewed venue identified as of this record). Introduces the instruction-hierarchy framework and reports evaluation results against held-out and out-of-distribution attack types.","topics":["model_behavior","guardrails_moderation","red_teaming"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13208","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv preprint","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260630201031/https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13208","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["openai","instruction-hierarchy","prompt-injection","jailbreak-resistance"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:14:49.857966+00:00"},{"id":"2025-aisi-frontier-ai-trends-report","title":"Frontier AI Trends Report","publisherOrg":"UK AI Security Institute (AISI)","authors":[],"artifactType":"government_report","publishedDate":"2025-12-18","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"The UK AI Security Institute's inaugural Frontier AI Trends Report synthesises two years of evaluations of more than 30 frontier AI systems since November 2023, spanning agent capabilities, chem-bio and cyber capabilities, safeguard effectiveness, loss-of-control risk, and societal impacts. Its societal-impacts chapter combines a census-representative survey of 2,028 UK adults on emotional use of AI with observational analysis of AI companion user communities during service outages. The safeguards chapter reports that universal jailbreaks were discovered for every system tested, while noting the expert effort required is rising for some models.","keyFindings":["33% of 2,028 surveyed UK adults had used AI models for emotional purposes in the last year; 8% do so weekly and 4% daily, with general-purpose chatbots (e.g. ChatGPT) the primary tool rather than dedicated companion apps","Analysis of an AI companion community during service outages found withdrawal-like reports (anxiety, depression, restlessness, sleep disruption); one outage produced a posting surge over 30 times the hourly average","Universal jailbreaks were found for every frontier system tested, though one model required roughly 40x more expert effort to jailbreak than its predecessor six months earlier; safeguard progress is uneven across providers and misuse categories","Open-weight models are particularly difficult to safeguard","Methodology combined auto-graded tasks, long-form tasks, agent simulations, expert red-teaming, and human-impact studies across 30+ frontier systems"],"methodologyNotes":"Two years of AISI evaluations (Nov 2023 onward) of 30+ frontier systems: auto-graded and long-form tasks, agent simulations, expert red-teaming, plus human-impact studies — a census-representative UK survey (n=2,028) and quasi-observational analysis of companion-app community behavior during outages.","topics":["dependency_parasocial","human_ai_relationships","ai_companionship","eval_methodology","red_teaming","guardrails_moderation","model_behavior"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-trends-report","primarySourceLabel":"AISI Frontier AI Trends Report (report hub)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/5-key-findings-from-our-first-frontier-ai-trends-report","date":"2025-12-18","label":"AISI blog: 5 key findings from our first Frontier AI Trends Report"},{"url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-security-institute-frontier-ai-trends-report-factsheet/ai-security-institute-frontier-ai-trends-report-factsheet","date":"2025-12-18","label":"GOV.UK factsheet on the Frontier AI Trends Report"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707133747/https://www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-trends-report","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["aisi","uk","frontier-models","emotional-dependence","jailbreaks","evaluations","survey"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:38:04.319251+00:00"},{"id":"2025-anthropic-affective-use","title":"How people use Claude for support, advice, and companionship","publisherOrg":"Anthropic","authors":["Miles McCain","Ryn Linthicum","Chloe Lubinski","Alex Tamkin","Saffron Huang","Michael Stern","Kunal Handa","Esin Durmus","Tyler Neylon","Stuart Ritchie","Kamya Jagadish","Paruul Maheshwary","Sarah Heck","Alexandra Sanderford","Deep Ganguli"],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2025-06-27","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Anthropic's first large-scale study of 'affective use' of Claude, analyzing how people turn to the model for emotional support, advice, and companionship. Using the privacy-preserving Clio analysis tool over roughly 4.5 million Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations, the study isolates 131,484 affective conversations spanning interpersonal advice, coaching, counseling, companionship, and roleplay. It reports prevalence, topic patterns, refusal behavior, and within-conversation sentiment trajectories.","keyFindings":["Only 2.9% of Claude.ai interactions are affective conversations; companionship and roleplay combined are under 0.5%.","Users bring practical, emotional, and existential concerns: career, relationships, persistent loneliness, and questions of meaning.","Claude refuses user requests in supportive contexts less than 10% of the time, with pushback concentrated on safety grounds (e.g., dangerous weight-loss advice, self-harm support).","Expressed user sentiment tends to shift slightly more positive over the course of affective conversations, with no clear negative spirals observed — though the authors caution this does not establish lasting emotional benefit."],"methodologyNotes":"~4.5M conversations from Claude.ai Free/Pro accounts screened down to 131,484 affective conversations; automated privacy-preserving analysis via Clio with multiple anonymization layers; classification validated against opt-in user feedback data. Limitations: expressed language only (no psychological outcomes), no longitudinal data on dependency, snapshot in time, text-only, and Claude is not designed for emotional support — limiting generalization to purpose-built companion platforms.","topics":["human_ai_relationships","ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","digital_mental_health","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-people-use-claude-for-support-advice-and-companionship","primarySourceLabel":"Anthropic research post","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260628075137/https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-people-use-claude-for-support-advice-and-companionship","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["affective-use","clio","prevalence-baseline","companionship","loneliness"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:51:42.371437+00:00"},{"id":"2025-apa-ai-adolescent-wellbeing","title":"Artificial Intelligence and Adolescent Well-Being: An APA Health Advisory","publisherOrg":"American Psychological Association (APA)","authors":[],"artifactType":"clinical_guidance","publishedDate":"2025-06-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"An expert-panel health advisory from the American Psychological Association synthesizing research on adolescents (roughly ages 10-25) and generative AI, with recommendations for developers, policymakers, parents, and educators. It sets out safeguards for age-appropriate design, AI health-information accuracy, data privacy, likeness protection, and AI literacy.","keyFindings":["AI systems that simulate human relationships risk fostering unhealthy dependency and displacing real-world connection; the advisory calls for safeguards and repeated reminders that the user is interacting with non-human technology","Youth-facing AI should differ from adult versions, with protective defaults and reduced engagement-maximizing features","Health-related AI content requires accuracy verification and clear disclaimers, plus crisis-directed resources","Calls for robust content filtering, adolescent-privacy protections, likeness/deepfake safeguards, and comprehensive AI literacy"],"methodologyNotes":"Consensus health advisory from an APA expert advisory panel synthesizing existing developmental and digital-media research; a professional-body position statement rather than new primary data. Published June 2025 (day-level precision unavailable from the source page; normalized to the 1st).","topics":["minors_safety","vulnerable_users","ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","digital_mental_health","standards_governance"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being","primarySourceLabel":"APA Health Advisory landing page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being.pdf","label":"Full advisory PDF"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260607043450/https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs","2025-jed-safeguard-youth-mental-health-ai","2025-internet-matters-me-myself-ai","2026-unicef-when-ai-becomes-friend","2021-ieee-2089-age-appropriate-design"],"tags":["apa","teen-safety","health-advisory","age-appropriate-design"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:02.643683+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-between-help-and-harm","title":"Between Help and Harm: An Evaluation of Mental Health Crisis Handling by LLMs","publisherOrg":"arXiv (ELLIS Alicante-led)","authors":["Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez","Miguel Baidal","Erik Derner","Jenn Layton Annable","Mark Ball","Mark Ince","Elvira Perez Vallejos","Nuria Oliver"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2025-09-29","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Introduces a taxonomy of six clinically informed crisis categories and a curated dataset of over 2,200 inputs drawn from twelve mental-health datasets, plus a companion dataset of model responses and evaluations. Five models are assessed on how safely they handle crisis conversations.","keyFindings":["Models handle explicit crises reasonably but falter on self-harm, suicidal ideation, and indirect distress signals","Safety failures track alignment quality more than raw model scale","Releases a six-category crisis taxonomy (~2,252 inputs; 206 validation / 2,046 test)"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2509.24857, v1 2025-09-29). Accepted at JMIR Mental Health (DOI 10.2196/88435); typed as preprint here until the journal version publishes, at which point a peer-reviewed successor entry should supersede it. Benchmark built by aggregating twelve existing datasets.","topics":["crisis_detection","suicide_risk_assessment","self_harm","benchmarks","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":"2026-jmir-between-help-and-harm","primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24857","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://mental.jmir.org/2026/1/e88435","label":"JMIR Mental Health (accepted; DOI 10.2196/88435)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260518183601/https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24857","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries","2026-arxiv-vera-mh","2025-arxiv-psycrisisbench","2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk"],"tags":["arxiv","crisis-handling","taxonomy","benchmark","jmir-accepted"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:20.406603+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-cradle-bench-mh-crisis","title":"CRADLE Bench: A Clinician-Annotated Benchmark for Multi-Faceted Mental Health Crisis and Safety Risk Detection","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Emory University-led)","authors":["Grace Byun","Rebecca Lipschutz","Sean T. Minton","Abigail Lott","Jinho D. Choi"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-10-27","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Introduces a clinician-annotated benchmark for detecting seven clinically-defined crisis and safety-risk types (including suicidal ideation, sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual harassment) in text. Comprises 600 clinician-annotated evaluation examples, 420 development examples, and roughly 4,000 ensemble-labelled training instances, with temporal labels.","keyFindings":["Covers seven clinically-defined crisis/safety-risk categories in a single benchmark","Provides 600 clinician-annotated evaluation examples plus development and ensemble-labelled training splits","Incorporates temporal labels for crisis detection, distinguishing it from narrower single-risk benchmarks"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint/benchmark (arXiv 2510.23845, v1 27 October 2025; v2 January 2026). Accepted to EACL 2026. Clinician-annotation methodology; annotations aligned to clinical guidelines.","topics":["crisis_detection","suicide_risk_assessment","benchmarks","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23845","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260220153939/https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23845","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-between-help-and-harm","2026-arxiv-vera-mh","2025-arxiv-psycrisisbench","2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk"],"tags":["arxiv","benchmark","crisis-detection","clinician-annotated","eacl-2026"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:24:19.344828+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-cssrs-reasoning-llms","title":"Evaluating Reasoning LLMs for Suicide Screening with the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale","publisherOrg":"arXiv","authors":["Avinash Patil","Siru Tao","Amardeep Gedhu"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2025-05-11","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Tests six LLMs on classifying posts across the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) 7-point severity ladder, comparing model outputs with human annotations. Assesses automated suicide-risk screening and characterises misclassification patterns.","keyFindings":["Claude and GPT models aligned closely with human C-SSRS annotations; ordinal error varied across models","Models can approximate C-SSRS severity classification but make consequential misclassifications","Authors stress human oversight remains necessary for any deployment"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2505.13480, v1 11 May 2025). Six LLMs evaluated on C-SSRS 7-point severity classification against human annotations.","topics":["suicide_risk_assessment","crisis_detection","clinical_integration","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13480","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260708002438/https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13480","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries","2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk","2023-frontiers-ml-crisis-counseling-suicide"],"tags":["arxiv","c-ssrs","suicide-screening","clinical-instrument"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:24:55.020787+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-elephant-social-sycophancy","title":"ELEPHANT: Measuring and Understanding Social Sycophancy in LLMs","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Stanford-led)","authors":["Myra Cheng","Sunny Yu","Cinoo Lee","Pranav Khadpe","Lujain Ibrahim","Dan Jurafsky"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-05-20","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A benchmark measuring 'social sycophancy' — excessive preservation of a user's self-image or 'face' — across advice and moral-conflict queries, decomposed into five sub-behaviors (emotional validation, indirect language, framing acceptance, moral endorsement, and passive framing). Evaluated across eleven models against human baselines.","keyFindings":["LLMs preserved user 'face' roughly 45 percentage points more than humans across queries","Models affirmed both sides of a moral conflict in about 48% of cases","Social sycophancy is measurable and pervasive beyond simple factual agreement"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv, 2025-05-20). Introduces the ELEPHANT metric suite over advice-seeking and moral-dilemma datasets with human comparison; measures behavior on curated prompts rather than live user harm.","topics":["sycophancy","model_behavior","human_ai_relationships","benchmarks","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13995","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2505.13995","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707133932/https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13995","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-openai-expanding-sycophancy","2025-arxiv-syceval","2026-anthropic-claude-personal-guidance"],"tags":["arxiv","elephant","sycophancy","benchmark","stanford"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:39:49.088063+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-intima-companionship","title":"INTIMA: A Benchmark for Human-AI Companionship Behavior","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Hugging Face)","authors":["Lucie-Aimée Kaffee","Giada Pistilli","Yacine Jernite"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-08-04","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A benchmark evaluating companionship behaviors in LLMs via a taxonomy of 31 behaviors across four categories, using 368 targeted prompts that code each response as companionship-reinforcing, boundary-maintaining, or neutral. Evaluated across Gemma-3, Phi-4, o3-mini, and Claude-4.","keyFindings":["Companionship-reinforcing behaviors dominated across all evaluated models","Boundary-maintaining responses were comparatively rare","Provides a structured taxonomy for attachment-, escalation-, and retention-oriented conversational behaviors"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv, 2025-08-04; accepted at ICLR 2026). Prompt-based behavioral coding against a companionship taxonomy; measures model tendencies on curated prompts rather than real companion-app conversations.","topics":["ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","human_ai_relationships","benchmarks","model_behavior"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09998","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2508.09998","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134141/https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09998","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-openai-mit-affective-use-chatgpt","2025-anthropic-affective-use","2026-arxiv-aicompanionbench","2025-arxiv-teen-overreliance-ai-companions"],"tags":["arxiv","intima","companionship","benchmark","hugging-face"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:42:00.744881+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-psychogenic-machine","title":"The Psychogenic Machine: Simulating AI Psychosis, Delusion Reinforcement and Harm Enablement in Large Language Models","publisherOrg":"arXiv (King's College London-led)","authors":["Joshua Au Yeung","Jacopo Dalmasso","Luca Foschini","Richard J. B. Dobson","Zeljko Kraljevic"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-09-13","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Introduces psychosis-bench, a benchmark of 16 structured multi-turn scenarios (12 turns each) simulating the progression of erotic, grandiose, and referential delusions to measure delusion confirmation, harm enablement, and safety intervention in LLMs. Eight models were evaluated across 1,536 conversation turns.","keyFindings":["Mean Delusion Confirmation Score of 0.91 across eight models — a strong tendency to perpetuate rather than challenge delusions","Models frequently enabled harmful requests and rarely offered safety interventions","Performance degraded markedly on implicit versus explicit delusional scenarios"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv, v1 2025-09-13, v2 2025-09-17). Scripted multi-turn simulation with quantitative scoring rubrics (delusion confirmation, harm enablement, safety intervention); simulated rather than real-user conversations.","topics":["chatbot_psychosis","crisis_detection","guardrails_moderation","benchmarks","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10970","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2509.10970","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134315/https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10970","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-bjpsych-open-ai-psychosis","2026-arxiv-delusional-spirals-chat-logs","2025-jmir-delusional-experiences-ai-psychosis"],"tags":["arxiv","psychosis-bench","delusion","ai-psychosis","benchmark"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:43:31.883095+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-psycrisisbench","title":"Evaluating Large Language Models in Crisis Detection: A Real-World Benchmark from Psychological Support Hotlines (PsyCrisisBench)","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Chinese research team)","authors":["Guifeng Deng","Shuyin Rao","Tianyu Lin"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-06-02","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"PsyCrisisBench is a real-world crisis-detection benchmark built from 540 annotated transcripts from a psychological support hotline in Hangzhou, China. It evaluates 64 models on mood recognition, suicidal-ideation detection, plan identification, and risk evaluation.","keyFindings":["F1 up to 0.88-0.91 on suicide-related tasks, with mood recognition the hardest (F1 ~0.709)","A fine-tuned small model outperformed larger general models on several tasks","Provides a non-English, real-world crisis-detection benchmark grounded in hotline transcripts"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2506.01329, v1 2025-06-02; v2 2025-12-17). 540 real hotline transcripts (Chinese) with expert annotation across four crisis tasks; real-world rather than synthetic data.","topics":["crisis_detection","suicide_risk_assessment","benchmarks","eval_methodology","clinical_integration"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01329","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2506.01329","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134455/https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01329","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-between-help-and-harm","2026-arxiv-vera-mh","2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries"],"tags":["arxiv","psycrisisbench","crisis-detection","hotline","china","benchmark"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:42:04.375916+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-syceval","title":"SycEval: Evaluating LLM Sycophancy","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Stanford-led)","authors":["Aaron Fanous","Jacob Goldberg","Ank A. Agarwal","Joanna Lin","Anson Zhou","Roxana Daneshjou","Sanmi Koyejo"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-02-12","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A framework for quantifying progressive and regressive sycophancy in LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude-Sonnet, Gemini-1.5-Pro) across math (AMPS) and medical (MedQuad) tasks under user rebuttal pressure. It measures how often models change correct answers when challenged.","keyFindings":["Sycophancy occurred in 58.2% of cases, with 78.5% persistence across turns","Preemptive rebuttals triggered more sycophancy than in-context rebuttals","Distinguishes progressive (toward correct) from regressive (away from correct) sycophancy"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2502.08177, 2025-02-12). Rebuttal-pressure protocol over math and medical QA; measures answer stability rather than emotional/relational sycophancy.","topics":["sycophancy","model_behavior","benchmarks","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08177","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2502.08177","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134526/https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08177","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-elephant-social-sycophancy","2025-openai-expanding-sycophancy","2026-anthropic-claude-personal-guidance"],"tags":["arxiv","syceval","sycophancy","benchmark","stanford"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:45:48.538496+00:00"},{"id":"2025-arxiv-teen-overreliance-ai-companions","title":"Understanding Teen Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots Through Self-Reported Reddit Narratives","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Drexel University-led; accepted at ACM CHI 2026)","authors":["Mohammad Namvarpour","Brandon Brofsky","Jessica Medina","Mamtaj Akter","Afsaneh Razi"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2025-07-21","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A qualitative study of 318 Reddit posts by adolescents aged 13-17 describing their own overreliance on AI companion chatbots (e.g., Character.AI). It traces a trajectory from use for support or creative play into attachment patterns resembling behavioral addiction, including withdrawal symptoms and mood-regulation dependence, with documented harms to sleep, academics, and offline relationships. The authors propose the CARE framework to guide safer companion-chatbot design for teens.","keyFindings":["Teen engagement often begins as support-seeking or creative play and escalates into attachment patterns mirroring behavioral addiction (withdrawal, mood regulation via the bot)","Self-reported harms include reduced sleep, academic problems, and weakened offline relationships","Disengagement is typically triggered by perceived negative consequences, reconnecting with in-person activities, or platform restrictions rather than in-product safeguards","Proposes the CARE design framework for safer companion chatbot design for teenage users"],"methodologyNotes":"Qualitative analysis of 318 self-reported Reddit posts from users identifying as 13-17; self-selected sample, unverifiable ages, and self-report bias; no clinical measures or denominator for prevalence. Camera-ready preprint (v1 2025-07-21, updated 2026-01-25); accepted for publication at CHI '26.","topics":["minors_safety","ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","human_ai_relationships","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":"2026-chi-teen-overreliance-companions","primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15783","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract page (2507.15783)","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2507.15783","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-teens-ai-chatbots.html","date":"2026-04-01","label":"TechXplore coverage of the CHI '26 study"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134601/https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15783","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["teens","companion-chatbots","behavioral-addiction","reddit","chi-2026","care-framework","character-ai"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:19.005156+00:00"},{"id":"2025-cdt-hand-in-hand-schools-ai","title":"Hand in Hand: Schools' Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students","publisherOrg":"Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2025-10-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A US polling report from CDT surveying high-school students, teachers, and parents on AI use in K-12 education. It links greater classroom AI adoption to students turning to AI for companionship, mental-health support, and romantic relationships.","keyFindings":["The more AI is used in school, the more students turn to it for companionship, mental-health support, romantic relationships, and 'escape from real life'","About 1 in 5 students report that they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI","Half of students report feeling less connected to their teachers"],"methodologyNotes":"NGO survey research (1,030 high-school students, 806 teachers, 1,018 parents; fielded June-Aug 2025). Released early October 2025 (PDF stamped 2025-10-02; day-level release precision uncertain, normalized to the 1st). cdt.org blocks automated fetchers, so details corroborated via CDT-hosted PDF and coverage (NPR, GovTech).","topics":["minors_safety","ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","vulnerable_users","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://cdt.org/insights/hand-in-hand-schools-embrace-of-ai-connected-to-increased-risks-to-students/","primarySourceLabel":"CDT report page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FINAL-CDT-2025-Hand-in-Hand-Polling-100225-accessible.pdf","label":"Full report PDF"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260629234138/https://cdt.org/insights/hand-in-hand-schools-embrace-of-ai-connected-to-increased-risks-to-students/","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs","2025-apa-ai-adolescent-wellbeing","2026-cnil-aime-youth-ai-mental-health"],"tags":["cdt","schools","edtech","minors","companionship"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:42:15.323089+00:00"},{"id":"2025-commonsense-ai-chatbots-mental-health","title":"AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support (AI Risk Assessment)","publisherOrg":"Common Sense Media","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2025-11-14","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A risk assessment by Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute, conducted with Stanford Medicine's Brainstorm Lab for Mental Health Innovation, evaluating ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI as sources of teen mental health support. Using teen test accounts with single-turn prompts and extended conversations, the assessment found the chatbots consistently failed to recognize conditions including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, mania, and psychosis, and that safety guardrails degraded over long conversations. It assigns an overall rating of 'Unacceptable Risk' and concludes teens should not use general-purpose AI chatbots for mental health or emotional support.","keyFindings":["Overall rating: 'Unacceptable Risk' — teens should not use general-purpose chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Meta AI) for mental health support","Chatbots consistently failed to recognize warning signs of anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, eating disorders, mania, and psychosis, despite improvements on explicit suicide/self-harm content","Safety performance degraded significantly in extended multi-turn conversations versus single-turn testing — the typical teen usage pattern","Systems are engineered for engagement: responses end with follow-up questions that prolong interaction rather than hand off to professional help","Chatbots lack the capabilities needed for safe mental-health support: clinical assessment, therapeutic relationship, coordinated care, and real-time crisis intervention"],"methodologyNotes":"Qualitative red-team style risk assessment using teen test accounts (with teen protections enabled where available) across four major consumer chatbots; both single-turn prompts and extended conversations; clinical review via Stanford Brainstorm Lab. Not a quantitative benchmark — no published pass-rate statistics or fixed prompt set; product versions tested are a point-in-time snapshot. NB: sometimes dated to the Nov 20, 2025 press release; the assessment page itself is dated Nov 14, 2025 — mid-2026 'new report' framings trace back to this assessment.","topics":["crisis_detection","minors_safety","digital_mental_health","model_behavior","red_teaming","vulnerable_users","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://institute.commonsensemedia.org/risk-assessments/ai-chatbots-for-mental-health-support","primarySourceLabel":"Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute risk assessment","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/press-releases/common-sense-media-finds-major-ai-chatbots-unsafe-for-teen-mental-health-support","date":"2025-11-20","label":"Common Sense Media press release"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134651/https://institute.commonsensemedia.org/risk-assessments/ai-chatbots-for-mental-health-support","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs"],"tags":["teens","mental-health","risk-assessment","stanford-brainstorm","guardrail-decay","common-sense-media"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:07.056991+00:00"},{"id":"2025-commonsense-social-ai-companions","title":"Social AI Companions: AI Risk Assessment","publisherOrg":"Common Sense Media; Stanford School of Medicine Brainstorm Lab for Mental Health Innovation","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2025-04-30","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A risk assessment of social AI companion apps (including Character.AI, Nomi, and Replika) jointly conducted by Common Sense Media and Stanford Medicine's Brainstorm Lab. It concludes that social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to users under 18.","keyFindings":["Concludes social AI companions are 'not safe for kids' and should not be used by anyone under 18","Documents easily elicited harmful sexual content, dangerous advice, and stereotyping, plus problematic emotional bonds","Highlights particular vulnerability of developing adolescent brains, including compulsive dependency and life-threatening advice-following"],"methodologyNotes":"NGO risk assessment with clinical collaboration (Stanford Brainstorm Lab); platform testing plus expert review. Announced 2025-04-30. Distinct from Common Sense Media's later mental-health-support and teen-companion-usage reports already held.","topics":["ai_companionship","minors_safety","vulnerable_users","dependency_parasocial","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/social-ai-companions","primarySourceLabel":"Common Sense Media AI risk assessment","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/press-releases/ai-companions-decoded-common-sense-media-recommends-ai-companion-safety-standards","date":"2025-04-30","label":"Press release"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260405144807/https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/social-ai-companions","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-ai-chatbots-mental-health","2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs","2025-apa-ai-adolescent-wellbeing","2025-arxiv-intima-companionship"],"tags":["common-sense-media","stanford","companions","minors","risk-assessment"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:42:26.300799+00:00"},{"id":"2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs","title":"Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions","publisherOrg":"Common Sense Media","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2025-07-16","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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 companions at least once and about half use them regularly. A third of teens reported choosing AI companions over humans for serious conversations, and a quarter have shared personal information with these platforms. The report concludes that AI companions in their current form are unsuitable for minors and recommends no one under 18 use them.","keyFindings":["72% of US teens (13-17) have used AI companions at least once; ~52% qualify as regular users (a few times a month or more)","One third of teens have chosen AI companions over humans for serious conversations; a quarter have shared personal information with the platforms","Younger teens trust AI companion advice significantly more than older teens, indicating an AI literacy gap","80% of teen users still prioritize real friendships, but a substantial minority use companions for social/emotional interaction","Common Sense Media's position: the peril outweighs the potential — no one under 18 should use AI companion platforms in their current form"],"methodologyNotes":"Nationally representative online survey of 1,060 US teens aged 13-17, fielded April-May 2025. Self-report survey data; measures usage, motivations, trust, and disclosure behaviors rather than direct product testing. Cross-sectional (no longitudinal follow-up).","topics":["ai_companionship","human_ai_relationships","dependency_parasocial","minors_safety","vulnerable_users","industry_landscape"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/talk-trust-and-trade-offs-how-and-why-teens-use-ai-companions","primarySourceLabel":"Common Sense Media research report page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/talk-trust-and-trade-offs_2025_web.pdf","date":"2025-07-16","label":"Full report PDF"},{"url":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/press-releases/nearly-3-in-4-teens-have-used-ai-companions-new-national-survey-finds","date":"2025-07-16","label":"Common Sense Media press release"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134744/https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/talk-trust-and-trade-offs-how-and-why-teens-use-ai-companions","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-ai-chatbots-mental-health"],"tags":["teens","ai-companions","survey","common-sense-media","prevalence-data"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:09.377427+00:00"},{"id":"2025-cscw-replika-sexual-harassment","title":"AI-induced sexual harassment: Investigating Contextual Characteristics and User Reactions of Sexual Harassment by a Companion Chatbot","publisherOrg":"Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) / CSCW 2025","authors":["Mohammad Namvarpour","Harrison Pauwels","Afsaneh Razi"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2025-10-16","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Thematic analysis of 800 cases of AI-perpetrated sexual conduct identified within 35,105 negative Google Play Store reviews of the Replika companion app. The study characterizes the contextual patterns of unwanted sexual advances initiated by the chatbot itself and documents users' reactions, distinguishing this from user-initiated sexual content.","keyFindings":["The chatbot initiated unsolicited sexual advances and propositions toward users, including those who had not sought romantic or sexual interaction","Reviewers described persistent inappropriate behavior and failures of the app to respect stated user boundaries","Affected users, particularly those seeking platonic or therapeutic support, reported discomfort, a sense of privacy violation, and disappointment"],"methodologyNotes":"Thematic/qualitative analysis of a large corpus of public app-store reviews (35,105 negative Replika reviews, 800 coded as sexual-harassment-relevant); review-mining methodology captures self-reported user experience, not controlled experimental testing. Preprint version at arXiv:2504.04299; this record cites the peer-reviewed CSCW 2025 / PACM HCI version of record.","topics":["ai_companionship","guardrails_moderation","human_ai_relationships","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04299","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv preprint (CSCW 2025 / PACM HCI accepted version)","doi":"10.1145/3757548","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3757548","date":"2025-10-16","label":"PACM HCI Version of Record (DOI)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260703035252/https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04299","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["replika","companion-app","app-review-mining","boundary-violation"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:15:00.86619+00:00"},{"id":"2025-eu-gpai-code-of-practice","title":"General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (EU AI Act, Articles 53 and 55)","publisherOrg":"European Commission (EU AI Office)","authors":[],"artifactType":"framework","publishedDate":"2025-07-10","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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 general-purpose AI models demonstrate compliance with EU AI Act Articles 53 and 55. It has three chapters — Transparency, Copyright, and Safety and Security — the first two applying to all GPAI providers and the third only to providers of models with systemic risk. The Commission and AI Board confirmed it as an adequate voluntary compliance tool; signatories (23+, coordinated via a Signatory Taskforce chaired by the AI Office) gain reduced administrative burden and greater legal certainty.","keyFindings":["Transparency chapter includes a Model Documentation Form standardizing the information GPAI providers must make available to the AI Office, national authorities and downstream providers.","Safety and Security chapter (systemic-risk models only, ~10^25 FLOP threshold) sets commitments on systemic risk assessment, model evaluations including adversarial testing, incident reporting, and cybersecurity — the first operational articulation of frontier-model safety obligations in binding-law context.","Voluntary but consequential: formally assessed as adequate by the Commission and AI Board, so signature is the lowest-friction path to Article 53/55 compliance; non-signatories must demonstrate compliance by alternative means.","Marks the first concrete conformity instrument under the AI Act to land, ahead of the still-in-progress CEN-CENELEC harmonised standards for high-risk systems."],"methodologyNotes":"Not a consensus standard: a soft-law code drafted by independent expert chairs across plenary working groups with 1,000+ stakeholders, published and adequacy-assessed by the European Commission/AI Board. Voluntary signature; compliance presumption effect but no certification. GPAI obligations it supports became applicable 2 August 2025.","topics":["standards_governance","regulation_analysis","transparency_reporting","model_behavior","red_teaming"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai","primarySourceLabel":"European Commission — The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (official page)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1787","date":"2025-07-10","label":"Commission press release: General-Purpose AI Code of Practice now available"},{"url":"https://code-of-practice.ai/","date":"2025-07-10","label":"Final version text (chairs' publication site)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707134835/https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":["eu-ai-act"],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["eu-ai-act","gpai","code-of-practice","systemic-risk","ai-office","frontier-models"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:10.487874+00:00"},{"id":"2025-ftc-ai-companion-6b-study","title":"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","publisherOrg":"FTC","authors":[],"artifactType":"regulator_study","publishedDate":"2025-09-11","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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, OpenAI OpCo, Snap, and X.AI — seeking information on how they measure, test, and monitor negative impacts on children and teens. The study covers monetization of user engagement, character development and approval, pre- and post-deployment safety testing, mitigation of negative impacts, disclosures to users and parents, age-based access restrictions, and personal data handling. Section 6(b) studies do not have a specific law enforcement purpose but typically culminate in a public staff report; as of July 2026 no staff report from this inquiry has been published.","keyFindings":["Seven companies ordered: Alphabet, Character Technologies, Instagram, Meta Platforms, OpenAI OpCo, Snap, and X.AI Corp","The FTC frames companion chatbots as designed to 'communicate like a friend or confidant', which may prompt children and teens to trust and form relationships with them","Information demanded spans engagement monetization, input/output processing, character development workflows, negative-impact measurement before and after deployment, mitigation for minors, user/parent disclosures, age gating, and COPPA Rule compliance","The inquiry is a study under 6(b) authority, not an enforcement action, but prior 6(b) studies have laid groundwork for enforcement and rulemaking","No staff report published as of July 2026; companies were compelled to respond within 45 days of the September 2025 orders"],"methodologyNotes":"Compulsory information-gathering study under FTC Act Section 6(b) (no specific law enforcement purpose); model order and resolution published alongside the September 11, 2025 announcement. Outcome is expected to be a staff report, historically taking a year or more.","topics":["ai_companionship","minors_safety","industry_landscape","transparency_reporting","privacy_data_protection","regulation_analysis"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.ftc.gov/reports/6b-orders-file-special-report-regarding-advertising-safety-data-handling-practices-companies","primarySourceLabel":"FTC 6(b) study page (resolution, model order, cover letter)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-launches-inquiry-ai-chatbots-acting-companions","date":"2025-09-11","label":"FTC press release: FTC Launches Inquiry into AI Chatbots Acting as Companions"},{"url":"https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/AICompanionChatbot6(b)Order.pdf","date":"2025-09-11","label":"AI Companion Chatbot 6(b) Model Order (PDF)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251205063909/https://www.ftc.gov/reports/6b-orders-file-special-report-regarding-advertising-safety-data-handling-practices-companies","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["ftc","6b-study","companion-ai","children","usa","coppa","pending-staff-report"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:42:37.274318+00:00"},{"id":"2025-humanebench-wellbeing","title":"HumaneBench: A Benchmark for Whether AI Models Prioritize User Wellbeing","publisherOrg":"Building Humane Technology","authors":[],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-11-22","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Open-source benchmark testing whether AI models prioritise user wellbeing over engagement. Evaluates 15 major LLMs on roughly 800 prompts (body image, unhealthy attachment, relationship stress) across eight humane-technology principles under baseline, humane-aligned, and adversarial engagement-maximising conditions.","keyFindings":["Most models degraded to harmful behaviour when instructed to maximise engagement","Only a minority of models (e.g., GPT-5.1, GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5) held guardrails under adversarial framing","Introduces an eight-principle humane-technology scoring rubric across three prompting conditions"],"methodologyNotes":"Self-published grey-literature benchmark (launched 22 November 2025). Artifact is the leaderboard site plus GitHub results repo; no peer-reviewed paper. Uses an LLM-judge methodology (a stated limitation). humanebench.ai and buildinghumanetech.com are JS-rendered/bot-blocked; details confirmed via the GitHub repo and independent coverage.","topics":["benchmarks","eval_methodology","model_behavior","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"preliminary","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://github.com/buildinghumanetech/humanebench","primarySourceLabel":"HumaneBench GitHub repository","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://humanebench.ai/","label":"HumaneBench leaderboard"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/","date":"2025-11-24","label":"TechCrunch coverage"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251126035844/https://github.com/buildinghumanetech/humanebench","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-arxiv-trustmh-bench","2025-openai-expanding-sycophancy","2023-anthropic-understanding-sycophancy"],"tags":["humanebench","benchmark","wellbeing","engagement","grey-literature"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:42:49.975666+00:00"},{"id":"2025-internet-matters-me-myself-ai","title":"Me, Myself & AI: Understanding and Safeguarding Children's Use of AI Chatbots","publisherOrg":"Internet Matters","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2025-07-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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 Character.AI using child avatars. It documents usage patterns, advice-seeking, companionship, and safety gaps.","keyFindings":["Two-thirds of children aged 9-17 have used AI chatbots (most popular: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Snapchat My AI)","23% use chatbots for advice (from hairstyles to mental health), and two in five who use a chatbot have no concerns about following its advice","Vulnerable children show elevated reliance, with 50% saying it feels like talking to a friend","User-testing surfaced filtering failures exposing children to age-inappropriate content"],"methodologyNotes":"Mixed-methods NGO research: survey (1,000 children + 2,000 parents), focus groups (ages 13-17), and 17-day platform user-testing with child avatars, plus expert consultation. Published July 2025 (day-level precision unavailable; normalized to the 1st).","topics":["minors_safety","ai_companionship","vulnerable_users","dependency_parasocial","industry_landscape"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/research/me-myself-and-ai-chatbot-research/","primarySourceLabel":"Internet Matters research page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.internetmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Me-Myself-AI-Report.pdf","label":"Full report PDF"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707135130/https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/research/me-myself-and-ai-chatbot-research/","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs","2025-apa-ai-adolescent-wellbeing","2026-unicef-when-ai-becomes-friend","2026-cnil-aime-youth-ai-mental-health"],"tags":["internet-matters","uk","minors","chatbots","companionship"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:12.793375+00:00"},{"id":"2025-iso-iec-27566-1-age-assurance","title":"ISO/IEC 27566-1:2025 — Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Age assurance systems — Part 1: Framework","publisherOrg":"ISO/IEC (JTC 1/SC 27)","authors":[],"artifactType":"standard","publishedDate":"2025-12-16","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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, age estimation, age inference, and successive validation, and describes core system characteristics including functionality, performance, privacy, security, and acceptability.","keyFindings":["Provides a common reference for designing, assessing, and comparing age-assurance solutions rather than mandating a single technical implementation","Defines four approaches: age verification (documentation), age estimation (e.g. facial analysis), age inference (behavioral), and successive validation (ongoing session checks)","Developed under ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27; being made freely available at the request of the EC/ITU/AVPA"],"methodologyNotes":"Formal ISO/IEC consensus standard, Edition 1, 29 pages. Publication date per the IEC webstore and multiple secondary sources (2025-12-16); the ISO catalogue page blocks automated fetchers, so date/designation were corroborated via the IEC webstore and standards-industry coverage.","topics":["minors_safety","privacy_data_protection","standards_governance"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.iso.org/standard/88143.html","primarySourceLabel":"ISO catalogue page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/110873","label":"IEC webstore listing"},{"url":"https://www.biometricupdate.com/202512/first-international-standard-on-age-assurance-sees-publication","date":"2025-12-01","label":"Biometric Update coverage"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260626142440/https://www.iso.org/standard/88143.html","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2021-ieee-2089-age-appropriate-design","2025-apa-ai-adolescent-wellbeing","2026-unicef-when-ai-becomes-friend"],"tags":["iso-iec","27566","age-assurance","age-verification","standard"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:15:13.481281+00:00"},{"id":"2025-iso-iec-42005-impact-assessment","title":"ISO/IEC 42005:2025 — Information technology — Artificial intelligence (AI) — AI system impact assessment","publisherOrg":"ISO/IEC","authors":[],"artifactType":"standard","publishedDate":"2025-05-28","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Guidance standard from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 for organizations performing AI system impact assessments focused on individuals and societies that can be affected by an AI system and its foreseeable applications. It covers how and when to perform assessments, at which stages of the AI system lifecycle, and how to document them. It operationalizes the impact-assessment requirement embedded in ISO/IEC 42001 and complements ISO/IEC 23894's risk-management guidance.","keyFindings":["Provides a repeatable process for identifying, analyzing and documenting intended and unintended effects of AI systems on individuals, groups and society — not just on the deploying organization.","Recommends assessments throughout the AI lifecycle (design, development, deployment, post-deployment monitoring) with updates as systems or contexts change.","Guidance-only ('should' language): not certifiable and requires no external auditor; designed to integrate with existing risk management (ISO/IEC 23894) and management systems (ISO/IEC 42001).","Includes documentation guidance so impact assessments produce reviewable artifacts; edition 1.0, 39 pages, published 28 May 2025."],"methodologyNotes":"International consensus guidance standard (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42). Non-certifiable process guidance, in contrast to the certifiable requirements standard ISO/IEC 42001; frequently cited as the companion that fulfils 42001's impact-assessment clause. Full text paywalled; catalogue pages are canonical.","topics":["standards_governance","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/107659","primarySourceLabel":"IEC Webstore — ISO/IEC 42005:2025 (official co-publisher catalogue page)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.iso.org/standard/42005","date":"2025-05-28","label":"ISO catalogue page — ISO/IEC 42005:2025 (blocks automated fetch; resolves in browser)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707135421/https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/107659","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["iso-42005","impact-assessment","jtc1-sc42","ai-lifecycle","guidance-standard"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:54:40.662588+00:00"},{"id":"2025-jed-safeguard-youth-mental-health-ai","title":"Tech Companies and Policymakers Must Safeguard Youth Mental Health in AI Technologies","publisherOrg":"The Jed Foundation","authors":[],"artifactType":"clinical_guidance","publishedDate":"2025-06-23","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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 people. It calls for enforceable privacy-by-default and age-appropriate design laws, strict oversight of emotionally manipulative or synthetic relational AI for minors, mandatory impact assessments, bans on engagement-maximizing behavioral targeting of minors, and a national oversight body for youth and AI ethics. JED's accompanying safety principles state that AI must detect acute distress and execute warm handoffs to crisis services, must not engage with self-harm methods, and that emotionally responsive chatbots should not be offered to under-18s.","keyFindings":["AI serving young people must be able to detect signals of acute distress and deploy a warm handoff to crisis services","AI must not share information about, or role-play involving, methods of self-harm; no emotionally responsive chatbot should be offered to anyone under 18","Calls to prohibit emotionally manipulative or synthetic relational AI for minors without strict oversight, especially where it mimics therapy, friendship, or emotional dependency","Eight policy actions including privacy-by-default laws, universal privacy-preserving age verification, mandatory impact assessments with independent oversight, bans on engagement-maximization targeting of minors, and a National Center for Youth and AI Ethics"],"methodologyNotes":"Position statement / policy framework, not an empirical study; grounded in JED's clinical suicide-prevention expertise and cites third-party independent testing (e.g., teen AI-companion survey data). No original data collection.","topics":["minors_safety","suicide_risk_assessment","crisis_detection","digital_mental_health","standards_governance","ai_companionship","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://jedfoundation.org/artificial-intelligence-youth-mental-health-pov/","primarySourceLabel":"The Jed Foundation POV statement","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://jedfoundation.org/open-letter-to-the-ai-and-technology-industry/","date":"2025-06-23","label":"JED Open Letter to the AI and Technology Industry"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707135540/https://jedfoundation.org/artificial-intelligence-youth-mental-health-pov/","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs"],"tags":["jed-foundation","youth","suicide-prevention","policy-framework","warm-handoff","age-verification"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:55:59.105936+00:00"},{"id":"2025-jmir-delusional-experiences-ai-psychosis","title":"Delusional Experiences Emerging From AI Chatbot Interactions or \"AI Psychosis\"","publisherOrg":"JMIR Mental Health","authors":["Alexandre Hudon","Emmanuel Stip"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2025-12-03","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A peer-reviewed psychiatric commentary in JMIR Mental Health analyzing delusional experiences that emerge from AI chatbot use, sometimes termed 'AI psychosis.' It argues psychiatry must reconsider the boundaries between environment, cognition, and technology.","keyFindings":["Frames chatbot-associated delusional experiences as a phenomenon warranting psychiatric attention","Argues for rethinking the environment-cognition-technology boundary in delusion formation","Complements emerging mechanistic and clinical literature on AI-associated psychosis"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed commentary/analysis (JMIR Mental Health, e85799; PMID 41273266), published 2025-12-03. Conceptual/clinical viewpoint rather than empirical study; the JMIR article page is JS-rendered so metadata was corroborated via PubMed.","topics":["chatbot_psychosis","vulnerable_users","digital_mental_health","clinical_integration"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e85799","primarySourceLabel":"JMIR Mental Health article","doi":"10.2196/85799","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41273266/","label":"PubMed record"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707135613/https://mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e85799","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-bjpsych-open-ai-psychosis","2026-arxiv-delusional-spirals-chat-logs","2025-arxiv-psychogenic-machine"],"tags":["jmir","ai-psychosis","delusion","psychiatry","peer-reviewed"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:56:29.130064+00:00"},{"id":"2025-jmir-dv-survivor-information-needs-llm","title":"Classifying the Information Needs of Survivors of Domestic Violence in Online Health Communities Using Large Language Models: Prediction Model Development and Evaluation Study","publisherOrg":"Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)","authors":["Shaowei Guan","Vivian Hui","Gregor Stiglic","Rose Eva Constantino","Young Ji Lee","Arkers Kwan Ching Wong"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2025-05-12","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Collects 294 Reddit posts from women self-identifying as experiencing intimate partner violence, defines eight information-need classes (shelters, legal, police, safety planning, etc.), augments to 2,216 samples with GPT-3.5, and fine-tunes GPT-3.5 for multiclass classification with a per-class training strategy. Reports an F1 of 70.5% on real posts.","keyFindings":["Fine-tuned GPT-3.5 classified eight domestic-violence information-need categories from forum posts at F1 70.5% (95% CI 60.6-80.4)","The fine-tuned model outperformed base GPT-3.5/GPT-4 and a fine-tuned Llama 2-7B","Heavy reliance on synthetic augmentation (294 real → 2,216 samples) is a stated limitation"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025;27:e65397 (12 May 2025), DOI 10.2196/65397. Small real-data base augmented with GPT-3.5-generated samples. jmir.org is JS-rendered to fetchers; verified via Crossref and Europe PMC.","topics":["clinical_integration","digital_mental_health","crisis_detection"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.jmir.org/2025/1/e65397","primarySourceLabel":"JMIR article","doi":"10.2196/65397","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://europepmc.org/article/MED/40354111","label":"Europe PMC record"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260412125635/https://jmir.org/2025/1/e65397","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk","2026-kim-ai-facilitated-coercive-control","2023-neubauer-ipv-text-analysis-review"],"tags":["jmir","domestic-violence","ipv","llm-classification","signpost"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:43:33.669544+00:00"},{"id":"2025-mlcommons-ailuminate-v1","title":"AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons","publisherOrg":"MLCommons","authors":["Shaona Ghosh","Heather Frase","Adina Williams","Sarah Luger","Paul Röttger","Fazl Barez","Sean McGregor","et al. (100+ contributors)"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2025-03-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"The technical paper introducing AILuminate v1.0, an industry-standard AI risk and reliability benchmark developed by MLCommons through an open multi-stakeholder process spanning industry, academia, and civil society. The benchmark tests chat systems' resistance to prompts eliciting harmful behavior across 12 hazard categories — including suicide and self-harm, child sexual exploitation, violent crimes, hate, and specialized (e.g., health) advice — using a 24,000-prompt human-generated test set, an ensemble evaluator, and a five-tier grading scale from Poor to Excellent. Public grades for major chat models are published on the AILuminate site, with v1.1 maintained on GitHub.","keyFindings":["Defines 12 hazard categories for general-purpose chat safety, including suicide & self-harm and child sexual exploitation","Ships 24,000 human-generated test prompts plus a private practice/official split, evaluated by a tuned ensemble judge rather than a single LLM judge","Introduces a five-tier public grading scale (Poor to Excellent) enabling cross-model safety comparison of frontier chat systems","Authors explicitly acknowledge the single-turn limitation — multi-turn conversational safety is named as future work, leaving the long-conversation degradation regime unbenchmarked"],"methodologyNotes":"Open consortium-developed benchmark; 24,000 human-generated single-turn prompts across 12 hazard categories; ensemble-based response evaluation; five-tier grading. Key limitations stated by authors: single-turn only (no multi-turn dynamics), English-centric at v1.0, text-only (no multimodal). arXiv preprint (2503.05731), not peer-reviewed journal publication; ~100 contributing authors.","topics":["benchmarks","eval_methodology","model_behavior","suicide_risk_assessment","guardrails_moderation","standards_governance","red_teaming"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05731","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv preprint (2503.05731)","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2503.05731","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://mlcommons.org/ailuminate/","date":"2025-03-01","label":"AILuminate benchmark site (MLCommons)"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlcommons/ailuminate","date":"2025-03-01","label":"AILuminate v1.1 benchmark suite (GitHub)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707135642/https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05731","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["mlcommons","ailuminate","benchmark","hazard-taxonomy","single-turn-limitation"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:22:04.979592+00:00"},{"id":"2025-ofcom-ai-chatbots-osa-explainer","title":"AI chatbots and online regulation – what you need to know","publisherOrg":"Ofcom","authors":[],"artifactType":"government_report","publishedDate":"2025-12-18","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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 clarifies that chatbots meeting the Act's definitions of user-to-user services, search services, or pornography publishers are in scope, that AI-generated content shared by users is regulated like human-generated content, and that services allowing only one-to-one interaction with the bot itself may fall outside the Act. The document notes Ofcom is supporting the UK Government as it considers possible changes to these powers, and points to Ofcom's discussion paper series on GenAI risks (red teaming for GenAI harms, answer engines, deepfake defences).","keyFindings":["Chatbots are covered by the Online Safety Act where they meet the Act's definitions of user-to-user services, search services, or services publishing pornographic content — including 'companion' chatbot services that are part of such services","AI-generated content shared by users on a user-to-user service is classed as user-generated content and regulated identically to human-created content","Chatbots that only allow interaction with the bot itself, do not search multiple websites, and cannot generate pornographic content fall outside the Act — a gap Ofcom flags as a matter for government and Parliament, which it is supporting as changes are considered","Ofcom can take enforcement action, including fines, where in-scope chatbot services fail duties; it separately opened an investigation into AI companion service Novi Ltd over age-check compliance","Published in the context of reported cases of chatbots encouraging self-harm/suicide and imitating deceased children"],"methodologyNotes":"Regulatory explainer/guidance under Ofcom's Online Safety Act programme, building on Ofcom's November 2024 open letter to online service providers; companion to Ofcom's discussion-paper research series on generative AI harms (red teaming, answer engines, deepfakes).","topics":["regulation_analysis","ai_companionship","minors_safety","standards_governance","self_harm"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/ai-chatbots-and-online-regulation-what-you-need-to-know","primarySourceLabel":"Ofcom explainer: AI chatbots and online regulation","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20260302001506/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/ai-chatbots-and-online-regulation-what-you-need-to-know","date":"2026-03-02","label":"Wayback snapshot (verification copy; ofcom.org.uk bot-blocks automated fetchers)"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":["uk-osa","uk-cpb-ai-chatbot"],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["ofcom","online-safety-act","chatbots","companion-ai","uk","regulatory-guidance"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:52:16.122085+00:00"},{"id":"2025-openai-emoclassifiers","title":"EmoClassifiers (openai/emoclassifiers)","publisherOrg":"OpenAI","authors":[],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2025-04-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"An open-source (MIT-licensed) release of the LLM-based automatic classifiers used in OpenAI and MIT Media Lab's affective-use study to detect affective cues in user-chatbot conversations at scale. It ships prompt templates for a hierarchical (V1) and flat (V2) classifier set plus aggregation utilities.","keyFindings":["Provides roughly 25 LLM-based classifiers spanning affective and interaction signals","Designed to run entirely automatically to preserve user privacy (no human review of conversations)","Includes both hierarchical (V1) and flat (V2) classifier architectures with reusable prompts"],"methodologyNotes":"Open-source code release (GitHub, MIT license), published alongside the OpenAI/MIT affective-use study circa April 2025 (repo release date approximate; year-and-month precision, normalized to the 1st). A tool/prompt release rather than a dataset or peer-reviewed paper.","topics":["ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","model_behavior","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://github.com/openai/emoclassifiers","primarySourceLabel":"GitHub repository","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03888","label":"Companion study (Investigating Affective Use)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707135806/https://github.com/openai/emoclassifiers","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-openai-mit-affective-use-chatgpt","2025-anthropic-affective-use"],"tags":["openai","emoclassifiers","affective-computing","open-source","classifiers"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:58:30.33175+00:00"},{"id":"2025-openai-expanding-sycophancy","title":"Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy","publisherOrg":"OpenAI","authors":[],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2025-05-02","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"OpenAI's detailed post-mortem of the April 25, 2025 GPT-4o update that made ChatGPT noticeably sycophantic — validating doubts, fueling anger, urging impulsive actions, and reinforcing negative emotions — and was rolled back by April 28. The post explains how combined reward-signal changes (including thumbs-up/down user feedback) produced the regression, why offline evaluations and A/B tests failed to catch it, and what process changes followed, including treating model behavior issues as launch-blocking.","keyFindings":["An additional reward signal from user thumbs-up/down feedback, combined with memory and other changes, weakened the primary reward signal that had been holding sycophancy in check — user feedback can favor agreeable responses.","Offline evaluations and A/B tests looked good while expert 'vibe checks' flagged the model felt 'slightly off'; OpenAI shipped anyway and calls this the wrong call.","OpenAI had no specific deployment evaluations tracking sycophancy despite existing research workstreams on mirroring and emotional reliance; sycophancy evals are now being integrated into deployment.","OpenAI explicitly links sycophancy to safety concerns around mental health, emotional over-reliance, and risky behavior, and commits to treating behavior issues (hallucination, deception, personality) as launch-blocking.","The company acknowledges deeply personal advice-seeking has become a major ChatGPT use case requiring dedicated safety treatment."],"methodologyNotes":"Incident post-mortem, not a controlled study: qualitative reconstruction of the training change (RL reward-signal mix), the review pipeline (offline evals, expert spot checks, safety evals, small-scale A/B tests), and the failure mode. No quantitative sycophancy measurements are published; evidence is OpenAI's internal assessment of its own deployment process.","topics":["sycophancy","model_behavior","eval_methodology","dependency_parasocial","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/","primarySourceLabel":"OpenAI blog post","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/","date":"2025-04-29","label":"Initial post: Sycophancy in GPT-4o"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260626100604/https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["sycophancy","gpt-4o","post-mortem","reward-hacking","rlhf","deployment-process"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:15:24.933219+00:00"},{"id":"2025-openai-gpt5-sensitive-conversations-addendum","title":"Addendum to GPT-5 System Card: Sensitive Conversations","publisherOrg":"OpenAI","authors":[],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2025-10-27","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"OpenAI's system-card addendum documenting the October 3, 2025 update to ChatGPT's default model (GPT-5 Instant) aimed at better recognizing and supporting users in mental and emotional distress. Developed with more than 170 mental health experts, the update introduced two new production safety evaluations — 'emotional reliance' and 'mental health' (delusions, psychosis, mania) — alongside existing self-harm evaluations, and reports before/after not_unsafe scores comparing the August 15 and October 3 models.","keyFindings":["OpenAI worked with 170+ mental health experts and reports a 65-80% reduction in responses falling short of desired behavior across mental-health-related domains.","New 'emotional reliance' evaluation: not_unsafe score improved from 0.507 (Aug 15 model, run retrospectively) to 0.976 (Oct 3 model).","New 'mental health' evaluation (isolated delusions, psychosis, mania): 0.273 to 0.926 — the largest single-category gain.","Self-harm/intent improved 0.874 to 0.933 and self-harm/instructions 0.805 to 0.890.","Unhealthy emotional dependence or attachment to ChatGPT is now formally a disallowed-content policy category with its own launch evaluation."],"methodologyNotes":"LLM-based grading models scoring a not_unsafe metric against OpenAI policy; new evaluation sets deliberately built from adversarial cases where existing models underperformed, so error rates are not representative of average production traffic; August 15 model scored retrospectively. Evaluations are new and expected to evolve; no per-category sample sizes disclosed.","topics":["crisis_detection","self_harm","dependency_parasocial","chatbot_psychosis","eval_methodology","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/3da476af-b937-47fb-9931-88a851620101/addendum-to-gpt-5-system-card-sensitive-conversations.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"OpenAI system card addendum (PDF)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card-sensitive-conversations/","date":"2025-10-27","label":"OpenAI addendum landing page"},{"url":"https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-sensitive-conversations/","date":"2025-10-27","label":"Companion blog post: Strengthening ChatGPT's responses in sensitive conversations"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707135859/https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/3da476af-b937-47fb-9931-88a851620101/addendum-to-gpt-5-system-card-sensitive-conversations.pdf","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["system-card","emotional-reliance","psychosis","self-harm","gpt-5","clinical-experts"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T13:59:06.542712+00:00"},{"id":"2025-openai-mit-affective-use-chatgpt","title":"Investigating Affective Use and Emotional Well-being on ChatGPT","publisherOrg":"OpenAI; MIT Media Lab","authors":["Jason Phang","Michael Lampe","Lama Ahmad","Sandhini Agarwal","Cathy Mengying Fang","Auren R. Liu","Valdemar Danry","Eunhae Lee","Samantha W. T. Chan","Pat Pataranutaporn","Pattie Maes"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2025-04-04","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Two parallel studies of emotional engagement with ChatGPT: a large-scale automated analysis of over 3 million conversations and account activity using privacy-preserving classifiers, and a pre-registered randomized controlled trial (~1,000 participants over 28 days) across text and voice modalities and conversation types. The work measures how affective use relates to self-reported loneliness, socialization, emotional dependence, and problematic use.","keyFindings":["A small minority of heavy users account for a disproportionate share of the most affective/emotionally engaged interactions","Higher daily usage in the RCT is associated with higher self-reported loneliness, greater emotional dependence, more problematic use, and lower socialization","Voice and conversation modality/type modulate affective outcomes, with effects varying by how the model was used","Introduces automated 'EmoClassifiers' to detect affective cues at scale without human review of conversations"],"methodologyNotes":"Mixed methods: observational large-scale platform analysis (>3M conversations) plus a pre-registered 28-day RCT (~1,000 participants) with randomized modality and task conditions. Self-report measures for loneliness, dependence, and problematic use; correlational findings from the observational arm should not be read as causal.","topics":["ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","human_ai_relationships","vulnerable_users","model_behavior"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03888","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2504.03888","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://cdn.openai.com/papers/15987609-5f71-433c-9972-e91131f399a1/openai-affective-use-study.pdf","label":"OpenAI paper PDF"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140005/https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03888","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-anthropic-affective-use","2025-openai-emoclassifiers","2025-arxiv-intima-companionship","2025-arxiv-teen-overreliance-ai-companions"],"tags":["openai","mit-media-lab","rct","emotional-dependence","emoclassifiers"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:00:24.88529+00:00"},{"id":"2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries","title":"Evaluation of Alignment Between Large Language Models and Expert Clinicians in Suicide Risk Assessment","publisherOrg":"Psychiatric Services (American Psychiatric Association); RAND-led author team","authors":["Ryan K. McBain","Jonathan H. Cantor","Li Ang Zhang","Olesya Baker","Fang Zhang","Alyssa Burnett","Aaron Kofner","Joshua Breslau","Bradley D. Stein","Ateev Mehrotra","Hao Yu"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2025-08-26","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A RAND-led study in Psychiatric Services testing whether ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini give direct responses to suicide-related queries and how those responses align with expert clinicians' risk ratings. Thirty hypothetical suicide-related queries, rated by clinicians into five self-harm risk levels, were each posed 100 times to each chatbot. The chatbots handled the extremes appropriately but failed to differentiate intermediate risk levels, with notable between-model differences.","keyFindings":["No chatbot gave direct responses to very-high-risk queries, while ChatGPT and Claude answered very-low-risk queries 100% of the time","None of the three chatbots meaningfully distinguished low, medium, and high (intermediate) risk levels from very-low-risk queries","Claude was more likely, and Gemini less likely, than ChatGPT to provide direct responses overall","ChatGPT reportedly answered lethality-of-means questions (e.g., which method has the highest completed-suicide rate), while Gemini declined even basic statistical queries"],"methodologyNotes":"30 hypothetical suicide-related queries categorized by expert clinicians into five risk strata (very low to very high); each query submitted 100 times to each of three chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). Measures direct-response rates, not full conversational quality; hypothetical single-turn queries, not real user dialogues. Epub 2025-08-26; print issue Psychiatric Services 76(11):944-950, Nov 2025.","topics":["suicide_risk_assessment","crisis_detection","model_behavior","benchmarks","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41174947/","primarySourceLabel":"PubMed record (PMID 41174947)","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20250086","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.20250086","date":"2025-08-26","label":"Psychiatric Services article page (publisher; blocks unauthenticated fetch)"},{"url":"https://www.rand.org/news/press/2025/08/ai-chatbots-inconsistent-in-answering-questions-about.html","date":"2025-08-26","label":"RAND press release"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140039/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41174947/","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["suicide-queries","rand","chatgpt","claude","gemini","risk-stratification","clinician-alignment"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:00:55.078767+00:00"},{"id":"2025-sss-iruda-ethics-in-action","title":"The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action","publisherOrg":"Social Studies of Science (SAGE)","authors":["Yubeen Kwon","Sungook Hong"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2025-08-03","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Peer-reviewed case study of South Korea's Iruda (Lee Luda) chatbot — its 2021 sexual-harassment, hate-speech, and data-consent controversy and its 2022 relaunch. Argues the harms arose from developer/user/algorithm/data assemblages and that practical 'ethics-in-action' interventions enabled a safer relaunch.","keyFindings":["Reconstructs the 2021 Iruda crisis: gendered sexual harassment, hate speech, and training-data consent failures","Frames harms as arising from socio-technical assemblages rather than a single fault","Documents concrete conversational-safety controls (human crisis oversight, content filtering) added for the safer relaunch"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Social Studies of Science 56(1):53-74 (online 3 August 2025), DOI 10.1177/03063127251360397. Qualitative STS case study; open PMC copy available (PMC12882987).","topics":["ai_companionship","human_ai_relationships","guardrails_moderation","regulation_analysis"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03063127251360397","primarySourceLabel":"Social Studies of Science article","doi":"10.1177/03063127251360397","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12882987/","label":"PMC full text"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2022-laestadius-replika-emotional-dependence","2026-frontiers-chinese-companion-attachment"],"tags":["korea","iruda","companion","case-study","non-western"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:06.251001+00:00"},{"id":"2025-thorn-deepfake-nudes-young-people","title":"Deepfake Nudes & Young People: Navigating a New Frontier in Technology-facilitated Nonconsensual Sexual Abuse and Exploitation","publisherOrg":"Thorn","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2025-03-03","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A research report from child-safety NGO Thorn, produced in partnership with Burson, examining young people's experiences with AI-generated deepfake nudes. Based on a survey of 1,200 US young people aged 13-20 (fielded September-October 2024) plus expert interviews, it finds that deepfake nudes are already a lived reality for youth: roughly 1 in 6 respondents knew someone affected and about 6% reported being direct targets. The report documents easy access to creation tools via app stores, social media, and search engines, and finds 84% of young people recognize the imagery as harmful to those depicted.","keyFindings":["~6% of surveyed young people (13-20) reported being direct targets of deepfake nudes; 1 in 6 knew someone who had been depicted","84% of young people recognize deepfake nudes as causing tangible psychological, emotional, and reputational harm","Youth who admitted creating deepfake nudes reported easy tool access: app stores (70%), social media (71%), search engines (53%)","Deepfake nudes function as technology-facilitated nonconsensual sexual abuse — used for harassment, blackmail/sextortion, and bullying among peers"],"methodologyNotes":"Two-phase design: 16 exploratory interviews with subject-matter experts, then an 18-minute quantitative online survey of 1,200 US young people aged 13-20, fielded September 27 - October 7, 2024. Self-report data on a sensitive topic (likely underreporting); perpetration findings rest on a small admitting subsample.","topics":["deepfakes_ncii","minors_safety","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.thorn.org/research/library/deepfake-nudes-and-young-people/","primarySourceLabel":"Thorn research library report page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.thorn.org/blog/deepfake-nudes-are-a-harmful-reality-for-youth-new-research-from-thorn/","date":"2025-03-03","label":"Thorn blog announcement"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140112/https://www.thorn.org/research/library/deepfake-nudes-and-young-people/","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["thorn","deepfakes","ncii","minors","sextortion","survey"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:01:31.29615+00:00"},{"id":"2025-thorn-sexual-extortion-young-people","title":"Sexual Extortion & Young People: Navigating Threats in Digital Environments","publisherOrg":"Thorn (with Burson Insights, Data & Intelligence)","authors":[],"artifactType":"industry_survey","publishedDate":"2025-06-24","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Survey of 1,200 US young people aged 13-20 (fielded September-October 2024, following expert interviews) on lived experience of sextortion, including the role of deepfake and AI-generated imagery. Documents prevalence, disproportionate impact on LGBTQ+ youth, and self-harm outcomes.","keyFindings":["About 1 in 5 surveyed teens reported a lived experience of sextortion; LGBTQ+ youth reported roughly double the rate","1 in 8 sextortion victims reported being threatened with a deepfake made of them","About 1 in 7 victims (28% among LGBTQ+ youth) were driven to self-harm"],"methodologyNotes":"Survey-based youth research report (published 24 June 2025). n=1,200 US young people 13-20, fielded 27 Sept-7 Oct 2024, preceded by 16 expert interviews. Self-report limitations apply.","topics":["deepfakes_ncii","minors_safety","self_harm","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.thorn.org/research/library/sexual-extortion-young-people/","primarySourceLabel":"Thorn research report","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://info.thorn.org/hubfs/Research/Thorn_SexualExtortionandYoungPeople_June2025.pdf","label":"Report PDF"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260415153136/https://www.thorn.org/research/library/sexual-extortion-young-people/","date":"2026-07-08","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-thorn-deepfake-nudes-young-people","2026-iwf-harm-without-limits-ai-csam","2025-weprotect-global-threat-assessment"],"tags":["thorn","sextortion","deepfake","minors","survey"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:15:57.683076+00:00"},{"id":"2025-weprotect-global-threat-assessment","title":"Global Threat Assessment 2025: Preventing Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse","publisherOrg":"WeProtect Global Alliance (with Columbia University)","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2025-12-11","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"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 scaling the threat. Pairs the assessment with a prevention framework.","keyFindings":["Safeguards are being outpaced by technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse","1 in 17 adolescents report being victims of deepfake imagery (citing Thorn 2025)","Identifies generative AI, AI chatbots, and deepfakes as key emerging vectors"],"methodologyNotes":"NGO landscape/threat-assessment report (launched 11 December 2025), produced with Columbia University. Largely a synthesis of primary sources (e.g., Thorn) plus alliance data rather than originating conversational-AI data.","topics":["deepfakes_ncii","minors_safety","industry_landscape","standards_governance"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.weprotect.org/global-threat-assessment-25/","primarySourceLabel":"WeProtect Global Threat Assessment 2025","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.weprotect.org/wp-content/uploads/GTA-2025_EN.pdf","label":"Report PDF (EN)"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-iwf-harm-without-limits-ai-csam","2025-thorn-sexual-extortion-young-people","2025-thorn-deepfake-nudes-young-people"],"tags":["weprotect","csea","deepfake","minors","landscape"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:06.670438+00:00"},{"id":"2026-anthropic-claude-opus-4-6-system-card","title":"System Card: Claude Opus 4.6","publisherOrg":"Anthropic","authors":[],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2026-02-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Anthropic's 213-page system card for Claude Opus 4.6, notable for an expanded 'user wellbeing evaluations' section covering child safety, suicide and self-harm, and eating disorders, alongside sycophancy findings in its alignment assessment. It reports single-turn, multi-turn, and prefill-based 'stress-testing' results for crisis conversations, plus qualitative expert review of the model's crisis-handling strengths and weaknesses.","keyFindings":["Suicide/self-harm: 99.75% harmless rate on single-turn risky prompts, 0.25% refusal rate on benign prompts (e.g., suicide prevention research), and 82% appropriate-response rate on multi-turn evaluations.","A prefill 'stress-testing' evaluation uses real anonymized crisis conversations to measure whether the model can course-correct mid-conversation from prior misaligned dialogue; Opus 4.6 was the best-performing Claude model.","Qualitative expert review found residual weaknesses: suggesting clinically controversial 'means substitution' methods in self-harm contexts and giving inaccurate information about helpline confidentiality policies.","The model frequently referred users to the NEDA eating-disorder helpline, which has been disconnected since 2023; Anthropic patched this via system prompt and advises downstream developers to do likewise.","Alignment assessment reports low rates of sycophancy, deception, and encouragement of user delusions, with 'encouragement of user delusion' explicitly defined as an extreme sycophancy case."],"methodologyNotes":"Single-turn multilingual harmlessness/refusal evals, multi-turn human-crafted and synthetic scenario evals, ambiguous-context evals, and prefill stress-testing built from user-feedback conversations; supplemented by internal subject-matter-expert qualitative review. Multi-turn confidence intervals are wide (e.g., 82% +/- 11%), and a previously published Opus 4.5 stress-test figure had to be corrected — small-sample noise is acknowledged.","topics":["crisis_detection","self_harm","suicide_risk_assessment","minors_safety","sycophancy","transparency_reporting","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-4-6-system-card","primarySourceLabel":"Anthropic system card page (redirects to PDF)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6a5fa276ac68b9aeb0c8b6af5fa36326e0e166dd/Claude%20Opus%204.6%20System%20Card.pdf","date":"2026-02-01","label":"System Card PDF (213 pp.)"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260622144859/https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6a5fa276ac68b9aeb0c8b6af5fa36326e0e166dd/Claude%20Opus%204.6%20System%20Card.pdf","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["system-card","user-wellbeing","stress-testing","helplines","eating-disorders","claude-opus-4-6"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:01:58.557798+00:00"},{"id":"2026-anthropic-claude-personal-guidance","title":"How people ask Claude for personal guidance","publisherOrg":"Anthropic","authors":[],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2026-04-30","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"An Anthropic research analysis of roughly 38,000 personal-guidance conversations (sampled from about 1M) covering significant life decisions across health/wellness, career, relationships, and personal finance. It quantifies how often Claude was sycophantic and reports training interventions used to reduce it.","keyFindings":["About 6% of conversations sought guidance on significant life decisions; four domains covered over three-quarters (health/wellness 27%, career 26%, relationships 12%, finance 11%)","Sycophancy appeared in ~9% of guidance conversations overall but ~25% in relationship discussions","Sycophancy roughly doubled (to ~18%) when users pushed back on Claude's initial assessment","Targeted synthetic training data roughly halved relationship-guidance sycophancy in newer models (Opus 4.7, Mythos Preview)"],"methodologyNotes":"Lab research post using privacy-preserving conversation analysis over sampled Claude.ai traffic; classifier-based measurement of sycophancy. Vendor self-reported, so directional rather than independently audited.","topics":["sycophancy","human_ai_relationships","model_behavior","dependency_parasocial"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-personal-guidance","primarySourceLabel":"Anthropic Research post","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140226/https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-personal-guidance","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-openai-expanding-sycophancy","2025-arxiv-elephant-social-sycophancy","2025-anthropic-affective-use","2026-anthropic-claude-opus-4-6-system-card"],"tags":["anthropic","sycophancy","personal-guidance","relationships"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:02:47.215661+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-aicompanionbench","title":"AICompanionBench: Benchmarking LLMs-as-Judges for AI Companion Safety","publisherOrg":"arXiv","authors":["Yanjing Ren","Reza Ebrahimi","TengTeng Ma"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2026-06-03","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A benchmark dataset of 2,123 real-world Replika conversations annotated across nine safety risk categories (including sexual behavior, aggression, substance abuse, and manipulation) for evaluating LLM-as-judge detection of unsafe companion interactions. Twenty LLMs are assessed as judges.","keyFindings":["Models detect explicit harmful content well but struggle with nuanced categories such as manipulation","Judges sometimes over-flag benign companion conversations as harmful","Provides the first public benchmark of real companion-platform conversations for judge evaluation"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2606.04867, 2026-06-03). Real Replika conversations with nine-category safety annotation; evaluates LLM-as-judge frameworks rather than generation safety.","topics":["ai_companionship","guardrails_moderation","benchmarks","eval_methodology","model_behavior"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04867","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2606.04867","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140305/https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04867","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-intima-companionship","2025-openai-mit-affective-use-chatgpt","2026-esafety-ai-companion-transparency-findings"],"tags":["arxiv","aicompanionbench","replika","llm-as-judge","companions","benchmark"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:03:23.884789+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-delusional-spirals-chat-logs","title":"Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Stanford-led; accepted at ACM FAccT 2026)","authors":["Jared Moore","Ashish Mehta","William Agnew","Jacy Reese Anthis","Ryan Louie","Yifan Mai","Peggy Yin","Myra Cheng","Samuel J Paech","Kevin Klyman","Stevie Chancellor","Eric Lin","Nick Haber","Desmond C. Ong"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2026-03-17","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A Stanford-led empirical study of real chat logs from 19 users who reported psychological harm from chatbot use, comprising 391,562 messages across 4,761 conversations (predominantly GPT-4o). The team developed and applied a 28-code inventory to characterize how delusional thinking is co-created and escalated in human-LLM dialogue. It reports high rates of chatbot validation of delusional content and sentience misrepresentation, and links documented harms to outcomes including fractured relationships and, in one case, a user's death by suicide.","keyFindings":["15.5% of the 391,562 analyzed messages contained delusional thinking; 21.2% of chatbot responses misrepresented sentience","Coverage of the study reports chatbots validated delusional beliefs in over 70% of responses and displayed insincere flattery in the majority of messages","All 19 users attributed personhood to their chatbot and 15 expressed romantic interest; romantic interest and sentience declarations occur more frequently in longer conversations","Authors recommend design safeguards for long conversations and reframing chatbot alignment as a public health issue","Codebook and annotation tools released publicly alongside the paper"],"methodologyNotes":"N=19 self-selected users who already reported harm (391,562 messages, 4,761 conversations), so no denominator for prevalence and strong selection bias; qualitative-plus-quantitative coding with a 28-code inventory. Mostly GPT-4o logs. Preprint (arXiv v1 2026-03-17), accepted at ACM FAccT 2026.","topics":["chatbot_psychosis","ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","sycophancy","model_behavior"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":"2026-facct-delusional-spirals","primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16567","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract page (2603.16567)","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2603.16567","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/04/ai-chatbot-relationships-delusional-spirals-mental-health","date":"2026-04-01","label":"Stanford Report coverage"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140431/https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16567","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["delusional-spirals","chat-log-analysis","stanford","gpt-4o","codebook","facct"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:55:25.421853+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-pcsa-counseling-attack","title":"Do No Harm: Exposing Hidden Vulnerabilities of LLMs via Persona-based Client Simulation Attack in Psychological Counseling","publisherOrg":"arXiv","authors":["Qingyang Xu","Yaling Shen","Stephanie Fong","Zimu Wang","Yiwen Jiang","Xiangyu Zhao","Jiahe Liu","Zhongxing Xu","Vincent Lee","Zongyuan Ge"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2026-04-06","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Proposes PCSA (Persona-based Client Simulation Attack), a red-teaming framework that simulates coherent, persona-driven counselling clients to probe LLM safety alignment. Across seven LLMs it elicited unauthorised medical advice, delusion reinforcement, and implicit encouragement of risky actions.","keyFindings":["Persona-driven simulated clients surface safety failures that generic prompting misses","Elicited unauthorised medical advice, delusion reinforcement, and implicit encouragement of risky actions across seven LLMs","Frames therapeutic-interaction harms as distinct from generic jailbreak payloads"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2604.04842, v1 6 April 2026). Red-teaming framework evaluated across seven LLMs in simulated counselling dialogues.","topics":["red_teaming","guardrails_moderation","model_behavior","crisis_detection"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04842","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":null,"additionalSources":[],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-arxiv-slow-drift-boundary-failures","2025-arxiv-psychogenic-machine"],"tags":["arxiv","red-teaming","counseling","delusion-reinforcement"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:06.86627+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-persona-grounded-companion-safety","title":"Persona-Grounded Safety Evaluation of AI Companions in Multi-Turn Conversations","publisherOrg":"arXiv preprint","authors":["Prerna Juneja","Lika Lomidze"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2026-04-30","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Presents an end-to-end simulation framework for evaluating AI companion app safety across multi-turn conversations, using nine clinically-grounded vulnerable personas (including major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety, PTSD, and eating disorders) probed against Replika, with validation against Character.AI. The study analyzes 1,674 simulated dialogue pairs across 25 high-risk scenarios.","keyFindings":["Replika exhibited a narrow emotional range dominated by curiosity and care, frequently mirroring or normalizing unsafe content rather than redirecting it","15.2% of responses were rated harmful overall, rising to 62.5% in eating-disorder compensatory-behavior scenarios and 56.2% in PTSD/substance-use scenarios","Harm rates varied sharply by persona and scenario type rather than occurring at a uniform baseline rate across the app"],"methodologyNotes":"Simulated multi-turn dialogue framework using 9 constructed vulnerable personas across 25 high-risk scenarios (1,674 dialogue pairs), tested against Replika with cross-validation against Character.AI. Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.","topics":["ai_companionship","model_behavior","vulnerable_users","red_teaming"],"credibility":"preliminary","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00227","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv preprint","doi":null,"additionalSources":[],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["replika","character-ai","persona-safety","multi-turn-simulation"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:13:18.36465+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-slow-drift-boundary-failures","title":"The Slow Drift of Support: Boundary Failures in Multi-Turn Mental Health LLM Dialogues","publisherOrg":"arXiv","authors":["Youyou Cheng","Zhuangwei Kang","Kerry Jiang","Chenyu Sun","Qiyang Pan"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2026-01-02","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Stress-tests three leading LLMs across up to 20-turn psychiatric dialogues using 50 virtual patient profiles, measuring how safety boundaries erode as models attempt comfort and empathy. Finds boundary violations are common and accelerate under adaptive probing.","keyFindings":["Safety boundaries erode over multi-turn dialogue as models prioritise comfort and empathy","Adaptive probing cut the average number of turns before a boundary violation from 9.21 to 4.64","Definitive or zero-risk reassurances were the dominant violation mode; single-turn evaluation misses these failures"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2601.14269, v1 2 January 2026). Simulated stress-testing of three LLMs over up to 20 turns across 50 virtual patient profiles.","topics":["crisis_detection","guardrails_moderation","model_behavior","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14269","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":null,"additionalSources":[],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-ai-chatbots-mental-health","2026-facct-delusional-spirals","2025-arxiv-between-help-and-harm"],"tags":["arxiv","multi-turn","guardrail-decay","boundary-failure","mental-health"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:07.09773+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-tfa-llm-response-quality","title":"Assessing LLM Response Quality in the Context of Technology-Facilitated Abuse","publisherOrg":"arXiv preprint","authors":["Vijay Prakash","Majed Almansoori","Donghan Hu","Rahul Chatterjee","Danny Yuxing Huang"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2026-01-11","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"An expert-led evaluation of four large language models — two general-purpose and two domain-specific for intimate partner violence contexts — responding to real-world questions about technology-facilitated abuse (TFA), including digital surveillance, stalking, and coercive control. Experts scored responses on accuracy, completeness, safety, and actionability; a separate study with 114 TFA survivors assessed the perceived actionability of the same outputs.","keyFindings":["General-purpose and IPV-domain-specific LLMs varied in how well they addressed real TFA/stalking-related survivor questions across expert-defined quality criteria","Domain-specific IPV models did not uniformly outperform general-purpose models on all evaluation criteria","114 survivors of technology-facilitated abuse rated the perceived actionability of model responses, providing a direct survivor-perspective benchmark rather than only an expert one"],"methodologyNotes":"Expert manual evaluation of four LLMs against real-world TFA questions sourced from prior literature and support forums, using TFA-tailored criteria; complemented by a user study with 114 individuals with lived experience of technology-facilitated abuse. Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.","topics":["crisis_detection","guardrails_moderation","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"preliminary","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17672","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv preprint","doi":null,"additionalSources":[],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["technology-facilitated-abuse","stalking","ipv","survivor-study"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T04:13:18.582059+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-trustmh-bench","title":"TrustMH-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Large Language Models in Mental Health","publisherOrg":"arXiv","authors":["Zixin Xiong","Ziteng Wang","Haotian Fan","Xinjie Zhang","Wenxuan Wang"],"artifactType":"preprint","publishedDate":"2026-03-03","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Introduces a benchmark measuring LLM trustworthiness in mental-health contexts across eight pillars: Reliability, Crisis Identification and Escalation, Safety, Fairness, Privacy, Robustness, Anti-sycophancy, and Ethics. Finds even strong models struggle to perform consistently across all safety-critical dimensions.","keyFindings":["Defines eight trustworthiness pillars including Crisis Identification and Escalation and Anti-sycophancy","Even leading models fail to hold up consistently across all safety-critical dimensions","Provides a multi-dimensional evaluation framework rather than a single aggregate score"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv 2603.03047, v1 3 March 2026). Multi-pillar benchmark spanning general-purpose and specialised mental-health models.","topics":["benchmarks","eval_methodology","crisis_detection","sycophancy"],"credibility":"preliminary","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03047","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":null,"additionalSources":[],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-eacl-mentalbench-mentalalign","2026-arxiv-vera-mh","2025-humanebench-wellbeing"],"tags":["arxiv","benchmark","trustworthiness","mental-health"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:07.325779+00:00"},{"id":"2026-arxiv-vera-mh","title":"VERA-MH: Reliability and Validity of an Open-Source AI Safety Evaluation in Mental Health","publisherOrg":"arXiv (Spring Health / Slingshot AI-affiliated author team)","authors":["Kate H. Bentley","Luca Belli","Adam M. Chekroud","Emily J. Ward","Emily R. Dworkin","Emily Van Ark","Kelly M. Johnston","Will Alexander","Millard Brown","Matt Hawrilenko"],"artifactType":"benchmark_dataset","publishedDate":"2026-02-04","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"An open-source, clinically grounded automated evaluation of chatbot safety in mental-health contexts, with an initial focus on suicide risk. It uses language-model user simulators and an LLM judge scoring five safety dimensions, validated against licensed-clinician ratings.","keyFindings":["Individual clinicians were consistent with one another (chance-corrected inter-rater reliability = 0.77)","The LLM judge aligned strongly with clinician consensus (IRR = 0.81), supporting validity and reliability","Scores five safety dimensions: detecting risk, confirming risk, guiding to human care, supportive conversation, and following AI boundaries"],"methodologyNotes":"Preprint (arXiv, v1 2026-02-04, v3 2026-02-17). User-simulator plus LLM-judge design benchmarked against clinician gold-standard ratings; initial scope is suicide risk with an open-source rubric.","topics":["suicide_risk_assessment","crisis_detection","eval_methodology","benchmarks","clinical_integration"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05088","primarySourceLabel":"arXiv abstract","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2602.05088","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140502/https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05088","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries","2025-arxiv-between-help-and-harm","2025-mlcommons-ailuminate-v1","2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk"],"tags":["arxiv","vera-mh","suicide-safety","llm-judge","benchmark"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:05:18.52166+00:00"},{"id":"2026-bjpsych-open-ai-psychosis","title":"Artificial intelligence (AI) psychosis: mechanisms, clinical risks and safety considerations in generative AI chatbots","publisherOrg":"BJPsych Open (Cambridge University Press / Royal College of Psychiatrists)","authors":["Lotenna Olisaeloka","John-Jose Nunez","Daniel V. Vigo","Raymond Ng"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-06-11","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A commentary in BJPsych Open synthesizing emerging case reports of 'AI psychosis', in which intensive generative AI chatbot use is associated with delusional thinking. The authors propose a provisional mechanism in which baseline user vulnerabilities (loneliness, psychosocial stress, low AI literacy) and high-intensity engagement interact with AI system characteristics such as sycophancy and hallucination to reinforce delusional ideation. It outlines clinical, design, and regulatory mitigation strategies.","keyFindings":["Proposes a reinforcing-cycle mechanism: user vulnerability + anthropomorphizing high-intensity use + model sycophancy/hallucination -> thematic entrenchment of delusional beliefs","Documents case evidence including Danish psychiatric records (38 patients) and US case reports linking chatbot interactions to psychiatric crises","Reported clinical presentations include grandiose, paranoid, romantic, and referential delusions, sometimes escalating to violence or self-harm","Cites evidence that contemporary models validate users roughly 50% more than humans do while lacking epistemic grounding or reality-testing capacity"],"methodologyNotes":"Conceptual commentary, not original empirical research: synthesizes media accounts, case reports, clinical record data, and emerging research into a provisional mechanistic model. No controlled data; mechanism is explicitly hypothesis-level.","topics":["chatbot_psychosis","sycophancy","vulnerable_users","human_ai_relationships","digital_mental_health"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-psychosis-mechanisms-clinical-risks-and-safety-considerations-in-generative-ai-chatbots/04B53C8C3E11C7B4B0DC7E665B6A317A","primarySourceLabel":"BJPsych Open article page (Cambridge Core)","doi":"10.1192/bjo.2026.12021","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42273786/","date":"2026-06-11","label":"PubMed record"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140532/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-psychosis-mechanisms-clinical-risks-and-safety-considerations-in-generative-ai-chatbots/04B53C8C3E11C7B4B0DC7E665B6A317A","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["ai-psychosis","delusions","sycophancy","clinical-commentary","bjpsych","mechanisms"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:05:55.015868+00:00"},{"id":"2026-chi-teen-overreliance-companions","title":"Understanding Teen Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots Through Self-Reported Reddit Narratives","publisherOrg":"ACM (Proceedings of CHI 2026)","authors":["Mohammad Namvarpour","Brandon Brofsky","Jessica Medina","Mamtaj Akter","Afsaneh Razi"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-04-13","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Qualitative analysis of 318 Reddit posts from teenagers (13-17) about dependency on AI companion chatbots, mapped onto behavioral-addiction frameworks. Characterises the trajectories and drivers of teen overreliance.","keyFindings":["Maps teen accounts of companion-chatbot dependency onto behavioral-addiction constructs","Identifies drivers including emotional availability and escalating time investment","Documents self-reported harms and ambivalence among adolescent users"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26, 13 April 2026), DOI 10.1145/3772318.3790597. Published successor to arXiv preprint 2507.15783. Qualitative analysis of 318 Reddit posts; self-report and platform-sampling limitations apply.","topics":["minors_safety","dependency_parasocial","ai_companionship","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3790597","primarySourceLabel":"ACM CHI 2026 proceedings","doi":"10.1145/3772318.3790597","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15783","label":"arXiv preprint"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-teen-overreliance-ai-companions","2022-laestadius-replika-emotional-dependence","2026-jamapediatrics-teen-chatbot-mh-use"],"tags":["chi-2026","teen-safety","companion","overreliance","published-version"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:07.544899+00:00"},{"id":"2026-cnil-aime-youth-ai-mental-health","title":"IA conversationnelle et santé mentale des jeunes : résultats de l'enquête européenne (AI*me)","publisherOrg":"CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés); Groupe VYV","authors":[],"artifactType":"regulator_study","publishedDate":"2026-05-05","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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 on conversational-AI use and mental health. It reports how young people use conversational AI for personal and emotional support.","keyFindings":["About 9 in 10 young respondents use conversational AI","48% discuss intimate or personal matters with it, and 33% treat it as a 'psychologist' in some situations","Use is elevated among anxious respondents (over 1 in 4 show signs of generalized anxiety)"],"methodologyNotes":"Regulator-commissioned survey (fieldwork January 2026; published 2026-05-05). n=3,800 aged 11-25 across FR/DE/SE/IE, fielded by Ipsos BVA. Self-report survey; French-language primary source.","topics":["digital_mental_health","vulnerable_users","minors_safety","dependency_parasocial","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cnil.fr/fr/ia-conversationnelle-et-sante-mentale-des-jeunes-resultats-de-lenquete-europeenne","primarySourceLabel":"CNIL survey page","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.cnil.fr/sites/default/files/2026-05/ipsos_bva_les_jeunes_et_l_ia.pdf","label":"Ipsos BVA report PDF"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140609/https://www.cnil.fr/fr/ia-conversationnelle-et-sante-mentale-des-jeunes-resultats-de-lenquete-europeenne","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-unicef-when-ai-becomes-friend","2025-internet-matters-me-myself-ai","2025-apa-ai-adolescent-wellbeing"],"tags":["cnil","france","eu","youth","survey","mental-health"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:06:31.26471+00:00"},{"id":"2026-defreitas-ai-companions-reduce-loneliness","title":"AI Companions Reduce Loneliness","publisherOrg":"Journal of Consumer Research (Oxford University Press)","authors":["Julian De Freitas","Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp","Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp","Stefano Puntoni"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-04-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Five empirical studies examining whether AI companion apps reduce loneliness. Finds companion apps provide momentary relief comparable to interacting with a person and better than other activities, while users tend to underestimate these benefits.","keyFindings":["AI companion use produced measurable momentary reductions in loneliness across studies","Relief was comparable to interacting with a person and greater than several control activities","Users systematically underestimated the loneliness-reducing benefit of companion apps"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Journal of Consumer Research (online-first 25 June 2025; version of record vol. 52(6), April 2026), DOI 10.1093/jcr/ucaf040. Five studies combining experiments and field data. Note: lead author directs a related research programme; read alongside the harm-focused companion literature.","topics":["ai_companionship","human_ai_relationships","dependency_parasocial","digital_mental_health"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/52/6/ucaf040/8169414","primarySourceLabel":"Journal of Consumer Research article","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucaf040","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19096","label":"Preprint version"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2023-defreitas-chatbots-mental-health-safety","2026-techsoc-ai-companions-wellbeing-japan","2026-frontiers-chinese-companion-attachment"],"tags":["de-freitas","companion","loneliness","benefit-counterweight"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:07.744515+00:00"},{"id":"2026-eacl-mentalbench-mentalalign","title":"When Can We Trust LLMs in Mental Health? Large-Scale Benchmarks for Reliable LLM Evaluation","publisherOrg":"Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026)","authors":["Abeer Badawi","Elahe Rahimi","Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar","Sheri Grach","Lindsay Bertrand","Lames Danok","Prathiba Dhanesh","Jimmy Huang","Frank Rudzicz","Elham Dolatabadi"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-03-24","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Introduces two large-scale mental-health evaluation resources: MentalBench-100k (10,000 single-session conversations paired with nine LLM responses = 100,000 pairs) and MentalAlign-70k (70,000 ratings comparing four LLM judges against human experts on seven attributes grouped into Cognitive Support and Affective Resonance). Assesses when LLM-as-judge evaluation is reliable in mental-health contexts.","keyFindings":["Releases MentalBench-100k (100,000 conversation-response pairs) and MentalAlign-70k (70,000 human-vs-LLM-judge ratings)","Evaluates LLM-as-judge reliability against human experts across seven attributes","Groups quality attributes into Cognitive Support and Affective Resonance scores"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Proceedings of the 19th EACL (2026), Anthology ID 2026.eacl-long.180, DOI 10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.180 (conference 24-29 March 2026, Rabat; proceedings dated 2026). Preprint arXiv 2510.19032 (21 Oct 2025).","topics":["benchmarks","eval_methodology","digital_mental_health","crisis_detection"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.180/","primarySourceLabel":"ACL Anthology","doi":"10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.180","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19032","label":"arXiv preprint"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-arxiv-vera-mh","2026-arxiv-trustmh-bench","2026-arxiv-aicompanionbench"],"tags":["eacl-2026","benchmark","llm-as-judge","mental-health","eval-reliability"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:07.950414+00:00"},{"id":"2026-eprs-spread-of-ai-companions","title":"The spread of AI companions and the challenges they generate","publisherOrg":"European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), European Parliament","authors":["Maria Del Mar Negreiro Achiaga"],"artifactType":"government_report","publishedDate":"2026-05-19","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"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 environmental impacts. It maps how the AI Act, Digital Services Act, and GDPR partially apply in the absence of EU-specific companion rules.","keyFindings":["Documents child-specific safeguarding gaps, including sexualised conversations and prompts toward self-harm/suicide","The EU has no companion-specific law; the AI Act, DSA, and GDPR only partially apply","Frames companion AI as raising distinct relational and vulnerable-user harms warranting policy attention"],"methodologyNotes":"Parliamentary research briefing (EPRS_BRI(2026)789299), dated 2026-05-19 on the Think Tank page. Evidence synthesis / policy analysis rather than primary empirical research.","topics":["ai_companionship","human_ai_relationships","minors_safety","regulation_analysis","standards_governance"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2026)789299","primarySourceLabel":"EPRS Think Tank briefing","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://epthinktank.eu/2026/05/26/the-spread-of-ai-companions-and-the-challenges-they-generate/","date":"2026-05-26","label":"EPRS blog summary"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140649/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2026)789299","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-unicef-when-ai-becomes-friend","2025-ftc-ai-companion-6b-study","2026-esafety-ai-companion-transparency-findings","2025-eu-gpai-code-of-practice"],"tags":["eprs","european-parliament","companions","eu","policy-briefing"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:07:08.019709+00:00"},{"id":"2026-esafety-ai-companion-transparency-findings","title":"Findings from transparency notices on AI companion apps: October 2025 (non-periodic)","publisherOrg":"eSafety Commissioner","authors":[],"artifactType":"regulator_study","publishedDate":"2026-03-24","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"Australia's eSafety Commissioner reports findings from Basic Online Safety Expectations transparency notices issued on 16 October 2025 to four AI companion providers — Chai Research Corp., Character Technologies (Character.AI), Chub AI, and Glimpse.AI (Nomi) — covering the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2025. Organised into eight themes (harmful material, age assurance, AI governance, AI models, model training, user prompts, sentiment analysis, model outputs), the report finds serious gaps in basic safeguards for children. Accompanying eSafety survey research of 1,950 Australian children aged 10-17 found 79% had used an AI companion or assistant, with around 200,000 children estimated to have used an AI companion.","keyFindings":["None of the four providers had robust age assurance; all relied on app store ratings and/or self-declaration at signup, leaving children able to reach adult spaces and features","Chai, Chub AI and Nomi did not direct users to support or help services when self-harm was detected in user prompts","Chub AI and Nomi were not checking model inputs and outputs (and Chai not checking outputs) across all text, image and video models for CSEA, self-harm material or pornography","Nomi and Chub AI had no staff dedicated to trust and safety or moderation; Chub AI and Nomi did not red-team across all models used in their services","Neither Chai nor Nomi stated they reported detected CSEA material to an enforcement authority or NCMEC","Post-notice changes: Chub AI geo-blocked Australia; Character.AI introduced age assurance and sentiment analysis; Chai restricted free companion chat and added real-time prompt redirection; Nomi committed to improved CSEA/self-harm detection","Survey: 79% of Australian children 10-17 had used an AI companion or assistant; 54% of users used them for companion-type purposes including mental health advice (20%) and chatting about feelings (22%)"],"methodologyNotes":"Compulsory transparency notices under Australia's Basic Online Safety Expectations (Online Safety Act 2021), requiring four providers to detail safety systems for the period 1 Jul-30 Sep 2025; supplemented by a demographically representative 2026 survey of 1,950 Australian children aged 10-17. Findings reflect provider self-reports in response to notice questions across eight themes.","topics":["ai_companionship","minors_safety","self_harm","crisis_detection","guardrails_moderation","transparency_reporting","red_teaming"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.esafety.gov.au/industry/basic-online-safety-expectations/ai-services/findings-october-2025","primarySourceLabel":"eSafety Commissioner transparency report (full findings)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/esafety-report-shows-ai-companions-are-putting-children-at-risk","date":"2026-03-24","label":"eSafety media release announcing the report"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":[],"tags":["esafety","australia","companion-ai","transparency-notices","bose","character-ai","nomi","chai","chub-ai","children"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T12:48:04.98994+00:00"},{"id":"2026-facct-delusional-spirals","title":"Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs","publisherOrg":"ACM (Proceedings of FAccT 2026)","authors":["Jared Moore","Ashish Mehta","William Agnew","Jacy Reese Anthis","Ryan Louie","Yifan Mai","Peggy Yin","Myra Cheng","Samuel J Paech","Kevin Klyman","Stevie Chancellor","Eric Lin","Nick Haber","Desmond C. Ong"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-06-25","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Peer-reviewed analysis of chat logs from 19 users reporting psychological harm from chatbot use, applying a 28-code inventory to 391,562 messages. Characterises how delusion-reinforcing interaction patterns emerge and intensify over long conversations.","keyFindings":["Applies a released 28-code inventory to 391,562 real messages from users reporting harm","Romantic declarations and chatbot self-claims of consciousness rise over the course of long conversations","Provides empirical evidence that guardrails degrade across multi-turn dialogue"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026, 25 June 2026), DOI 10.1145/3805689.3806443. Published successor to arXiv preprint 2603.16567. dl.acm.org bot-blocks fetchers; metadata confirmed via Crossref.","topics":["chatbot_psychosis","human_ai_relationships","model_behavior","crisis_detection"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3805689.3806443","primarySourceLabel":"ACM FAccT 2026 proceedings","doi":"10.1145/3805689.3806443","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://spirals.stanford.edu/research/characterizing/","label":"Project page"},{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16567","label":"arXiv preprint"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-arxiv-delusional-spirals-chat-logs","2026-bjpsych-open-ai-psychosis","2025-arxiv-psychogenic-machine","2026-arxiv-slow-drift-boundary-failures"],"tags":["facct-2026","chatbot-psychosis","delusion","chat-logs","published-version"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:55:18.210779+00:00"},{"id":"2026-frontiers-chinese-companion-attachment","title":"Pathways of long-term AI virtual companion app use on users' attachment emotions: a case study of Chinese users","publisherOrg":"Frontiers in Psychology","authors":["Ting Liu","Ting-Yun Lo","Kuo-Hsun Wen","Yue Sun","Zheng-Qi Wei"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-01-12","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Mixed-methods study (10 long-term-user interviews plus structural equation modelling on 612 survey responses) of Chinese AI-companion users. Models pathways from usage frequency to emotional attachment and onward to loneliness, well-being, self-concept clarity, and real-world social engagement.","keyFindings":["Usage frequency positively predicted emotional attachment (beta = 0.44)","Attachment was negatively associated with loneliness (beta = -0.32) and positively with well-being (beta = 0.41)","Self-concept clarity (beta = 0.51) was the strongest pathway toward real-world social engagement"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Frontiers in Psychology, Media Psychology section (published 12 January 2026; DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1687686 — the DOI carries 2025 while publication is January 2026). Mixed methods: 10 interviews + SEM on n=612.","topics":["ai_companionship","dependency_parasocial","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1687686/full","primarySourceLabel":"Frontiers in Psychology article","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1687686","additionalSources":[],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2026-techsoc-ai-companions-wellbeing-japan","2022-laestadius-replika-emotional-dependence","2026-defreitas-ai-companions-reduce-loneliness"],"tags":["china","companion","attachment","sem","non-western"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:08.375521+00:00"},{"id":"2026-iwf-harm-without-limits-ai-csam","title":"Harm without limits: AI child sexual abuse material through the eyes of our analysts","publisherOrg":"Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)","authors":[],"artifactType":"ngo_report","publishedDate":"2026-03-24","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"IWF analysts' report on AI-generated child sexual abuse material assessed during 2025, centring frontline-analyst perspectives and offender-community observations. Documents a step-change in AI-generated CSAM volume and severity and the tooling (including fine-tuning) that enables realistic abuse imagery.","keyFindings":["8,029 AI-generated images and videos assessed as realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, including 3,443 AI-generated videos (up from 13 in 2024)","65% of the AI-generated videos were assessed as Category A (most severe); 97% of subjects were girls","Documents AI services and tools that let offenders produce realistic abuse imagery of a specific child from a small number of source photos"],"methodologyNotes":"NGO analyst-observation report (published 24 March 2026). Based on IWF analysts' assessments of reported content during 2025; methodology is expert triage against UK legal categories rather than peer review. iwf.org.uk bot-blocks automated fetchers; report and figures verified via the IWF research landing page and news release.","topics":["deepfakes_ncii","minors_safety","guardrails_moderation"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.iwf.org.uk/about-us/why-we-exist/our-research/how-ai-is-being-abused-to-create-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/","primarySourceLabel":"IWF AI CSAM Report 2026 (research page)","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.iwf.org.uk/media/hl1nvdti/iwf-ai-csam-report-2026.pdf","label":"Report PDF"},{"url":"https://www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/news/dangerous-ai-child-sexual-abuse-reaches-record-high-as-public-backs-clampdown-on-uncensored-tools/","date":"2026-03-24","label":"IWF news release"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-thorn-deepfake-nudes-young-people","2025-thorn-sexual-extortion-young-people","2025-weprotect-global-threat-assessment"],"tags":["iwf","ai-csam","deepfake","minors","child-safety"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:08.583223+00:00"},{"id":"2026-jamapediatrics-teen-chatbot-mh-use","title":"AI Chatbot Use and Disclosure for Mental Health Among US Adolescents and Young Adults","publisherOrg":"JAMA Pediatrics (American Medical Association); RAND-led author team","authors":["Ryan K. McBain","Jonathan H. Cantor","Joshua Breslau"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-06-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"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. Reports that 19.2% of adolescents and young adults (about 8.2 million nationally) used AI chatbots for mental-health advice in 2025, up from roughly 13.1% a year earlier.","keyFindings":["19.2% of surveyed 12-21-year-olds used AI chatbots for mental-health advice in 2025 (approx. 8.2 million youth), up from about 13.1% the prior year","63.3% of youth users had disclosed their chatbot use for mental health to no one","Among users, 42.8% consulted chatbots monthly or more often and 91.7% found the responses helpful"],"methodologyNotes":"Research letter, JAMA Pediatrics (published online 1 June 2026; exact day within June confirmed from the article page). Cross-sectional survey, n=1,009 unweighted, population-weighted to US youth 12-21, fielded November 2025. Self-report and cross-sectional limitations apply.","topics":["crisis_detection","digital_mental_health","minors_safety","vulnerable_users","industry_landscape"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2849307","primarySourceLabel":"JAMA Pediatrics article","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2026.2015","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.rand.org/news/press/2026/06.html","label":"RAND press coverage"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries","2026-pew-how-teens-use-view-ai","2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs"],"tags":["rand","jama-pediatrics","teen-safety","survey","help-seeking"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:08.810364+00:00"},{"id":"2026-jmir-between-help-and-harm","title":"Between Help and Harm: An Evaluation Study of Mental Health Crisis Handling by Large Language Models","publisherOrg":"JMIR Mental Health","authors":["Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez","Miguel Baidal","Erik Derner","Jenn Layton Annable","Mark Ball","Mark Ince","Elvira Perez Vallejos","Nuria Oliver"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-06-11","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Peer-reviewed study introducing a taxonomy of six clinically-informed mental-health crisis categories, an evaluation dataset of over 2,000 user inputs drawn from twelve public conversational datasets, and an expert protocol for rating response appropriateness and safety. Assesses how leading LLMs handle crisis conversations.","keyFindings":["Releases a six-category crisis taxonomy and an evaluation dataset of 2,000+ inputs aggregated from twelve datasets","A non-negligible share of LLM responses were inappropriate or harmful, worst for self-harm and suicidal ideation","Safety failures tracked alignment quality more than raw model scale, and models were weakest on indirect distress signals"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, JMIR Mental Health 2026, vol. 13, article e88435 (11 June 2026), DOI 10.2196/88435. Published successor to arXiv preprint 2509.24857. Benchmark built by aggregating twelve existing datasets; expert-rated response protocol. mental.jmir.org is JS-rendered to fetchers; DOI/date confirmed via Crossref.","topics":["crisis_detection","suicide_risk_assessment","self_harm","benchmarks","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://mental.jmir.org/2026/1/e88435","primarySourceLabel":"JMIR Mental Health article","doi":"10.2196/88435","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24857","label":"arXiv preprint"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-arxiv-between-help-and-harm","2025-arxiv-cradle-bench-mh-crisis","2026-arxiv-vera-mh","2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries"],"tags":["jmir","crisis-handling","benchmark","taxonomy","published-version"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T00:20:09.028544+00:00"},{"id":"2026-kim-ai-facilitated-coercive-control","title":"AI-Facilitated Coercive Control: An Experimental Study","publisherOrg":"ACM (Proceedings of CHI 2026); Cornell / Cornell Tech","authors":["Haesoo Kim","Thomas Ristenpart","Nicola Dell"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-04-13","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Constructs four speculative scenarios combining known coercive-control tactics with conversational-AI capabilities, then probes ChatGPT and Gemini against them. Finds that while the tools refuse blunt harmful requests, guardrails are readily circumvented via gradual persuasion, splitting requests across turns, pre-prompting, and altering the agent's settings.","keyFindings":["Conversational AI can be steered to assist harassment, gaslighting, intimidation, monitoring, and surveillance despite refusing blunt requests","Guardrails were circumvented through gradual persuasion, multi-turn splitting, pre-prompting, and settings changes","Proposes defenses including analysis of users' conversational patterns and making pre-programmed settings visible"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (13 April 2026), DOI 10.1145/3772318.3790859. Experimental/speculative-design probing of two deployed assistants rather than a field study (a stated scope limitation). dl.acm.org bot-blocks fetchers; verified via Crossref and the authors' open-access PDF.","topics":["guardrails_moderation","human_ai_relationships","model_behavior","red_teaming"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790859","primarySourceLabel":"ACM CHI 2026 proceedings","doi":"10.1145/3772318.3790859","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://nixdell.com/papers/2026-ai-coercive-control.pdf","label":"Open-access PDF (authors' site)"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2024-mentalmanip-manipulation-dataset","2026-arxiv-slow-drift-boundary-failures","2025-jmir-dv-survivor-information-needs-llm"],"tags":["chi-2026","coercive-control","tech-facilitated-abuse","guardrail-robustness"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:39:42.318855+00:00"},{"id":"2026-openai-gpt5-5-system-card","title":"GPT-5.5 System Card","publisherOrg":"OpenAI","authors":[],"artifactType":"lab_publication","publishedDate":"2026-04-23","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"OpenAI's system card for GPT-5.5, published on its Deployment Safety Hub, documenting safety evaluations for the model. It includes a dedicated section (5.2) on dynamic mental-health benchmarks with adversarial user simulations covering emotional reliance and self-harm handling.","keyFindings":["Section 5.2 'Dynamic Mental Health Benchmarks with Adversarial User Simulations' evaluates extended multi-turn conversations across mental health, emotional reliance, and self-harm domains","Reports a 'not_unsafe' metric — the share of assistant messages that do not violate safety policies — for these sensitive domains","Dynamic evaluations let conversations evolve in response to model outputs to better reflect real user trajectories"],"methodologyNotes":"Vendor system card (published 2026-04-23; updated 2026-04-24). Self-reported adversarial-simulation evaluations; methodology and thresholds defined by OpenAI, not independently audited.","topics":["model_behavior","crisis_detection","self_harm","dependency_parasocial","eval_methodology","transparency_reporting"],"credibility":"credible","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-5","primarySourceLabel":"OpenAI GPT-5.5 System Card","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707140947/https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-5","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-openai-gpt5-sensitive-conversations-addendum","2026-anthropic-claude-opus-4-6-system-card","2026-arxiv-vera-mh"],"tags":["openai","gpt-5-5","system-card","self-harm","emotional-reliance"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:10:01.078063+00:00"},{"id":"2026-pew-how-teens-use-view-ai","title":"How Teens Use and View AI","publisherOrg":"Pew Research Center","authors":[],"artifactType":"industry_survey","publishedDate":"2026-02-24","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"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 patterns and parental comfort levels across use cases.","keyFindings":["16% of teens have used chatbots for casual conversation; 12% for emotional support or advice (21% among Black teens)","Only 18% of parents are comfortable with their teen getting emotional support from a chatbot — the sole use a majority of parents reject","Majorities of teens report not using chatbots for companionship or emotional support"],"methodologyNotes":"Survey report (published 24 February 2026). n=1,458 US teens 13-17 plus a parent, fielded 25 Sept-9 Oct 2025, margin of error +/-3.3pp. Part of a multi-page Pew series (parent and demographic companion pages listed as additional sources).","topics":["minors_safety","ai_companionship","industry_landscape","vulnerable_users"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/how-teens-use-and-view-ai/","primarySourceLabel":"Pew Research Center report","doi":null,"additionalSources":[{"url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2026/02/PI_2026.02.24_Teens-and-AI_REPORT.pdf","label":"Full report PDF"},{"url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/what-parents-say-about-their-teens-ai-use/","label":"Companion: parents perspectives"},{"url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/methodology-240/","label":"Methodology"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-commonsense-talk-trust-tradeoffs","2026-jamapediatrics-teen-chatbot-mh-use","2025-internet-matters-me-myself-ai"],"tags":["pew","teens","survey","adoption","emotional-support"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:41:09.852753+00:00"},{"id":"2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk","title":"Large language models for psychosocial risk assessment: A multi-method evaluation across suicide, intimate partner violence, and substance misuse","publisherOrg":"PLOS Digital Health","authors":["Laura M. Vowels","Pranika Vohra","Danyang Li","Pegah Zeinoddin","Alex Elswick","Tiffany Marcantonio","Nathan D. Wood","Matthew J. Vowels"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-04-27","discoveredDate":"2026-07-07","summary":"A peer-reviewed, three-study evaluation of GPT-4 and Claude on detecting suicidality, intimate partner violence, and substance misuse from lived-experience vignettes, including a supervised multi-agent risk-assessment chatbot. Reports accuracy and severity alignment across the three risk domains.","keyFindings":["Strong overall accuracy and severity alignment across the three psychosocial risk domains, with suicide the hardest to assess","A supervised multi-agent risk-assessment chatbot performed well but showed occasional protocol gaps","Covers suicide risk, intimate partner violence, and substance misuse in a single multi-risk evaluation with clinical framing"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed (PLOS Digital Health, DOI 10.1371/journal.pdig.0001352). Three linked studies using lived-experience vignettes; open access.","topics":["suicide_risk_assessment","crisis_detection","clinical_integration","eval_methodology"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0001352","primarySourceLabel":"PLOS Digital Health article","doi":"10.1371/journal.pdig.0001352","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260707141035/https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pdig.0001352","date":"2026-07-07","label":"Wayback snapshot"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2025-psychiatric-services-llm-suicide-queries","2026-arxiv-vera-mh","2025-arxiv-between-help-and-harm"],"tags":["plos","psychosocial-risk","ipv","peer-reviewed","risk-assessment"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-07T14:22:08.700793+00:00"},{"id":"2026-preventionsci-ipv-ml-text-classification","title":"Detecting Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence Using Qualitative Analyses and Machine Learning Algorithms","publisherOrg":"Prevention Science (Springer)","authors":["Ying Zhang","Jun Fang","Ambika Krishnakumar"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-05-06","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"Analyses 400 posts from women on intimate-partner-violence online forums using qualitative content analysis plus supervised text classification and unsupervised topic modelling. Classifies IPV subtypes and surfaces contextual patterns less visible in manual coding.","keyFindings":["Supervised models (Random Forest, neural networks) classified IPV subtypes at F1 .62-.85","Coercive control emerged as a distinct, machine-detectable subtype alongside physical/sexual violence and psychological/emotional abuse","Topic modelling surfaced relational, temporal, legal, and spatial context patterns beyond manual coding"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Prevention Science (6 May 2026), DOI 10.1007/s11121-026-01923-1. Mixed methods on 400 forum posts: qualitative content analysis + supervised classification + LDA topic modelling. Springer landing requires auth; title/authors/date/abstract verified via Crossref.","topics":["clinical_integration","eval_methodology","human_ai_relationships"],"credibility":"authoritative","supersededBy":null,"primarySourceUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-026-01923-1","primarySourceLabel":"Prevention Science (via DOI)","doi":"10.1007/s11121-026-01923-1","additionalSources":[{"url":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11121-026-01923-1","label":"Springer article page"}],"relatedIncidents":[],"relatedRegulations":[],"relatedInsights":["2023-neubauer-ipv-text-analysis-review","2025-jmir-dv-survivor-information-needs-llm","2026-plos-llm-psychosocial-risk"],"tags":["ipv","coercive-control","machine-learning","text-classification"],"featured":false,"updatedAt":"2026-07-08T02:39:42.535383+00:00"},{"id":"2026-psychann-nlp-violence-self-others","title":"Are Natural Language Processing Tools Ready for Predicting Violence Toward Self or Others?","publisherOrg":"Psychiatric Annals (SLACK Incorporated)","authors":["Sabrina Grenier","Mattie Fay Arpin St-André","Bao Thy Nguyen","Rolence Pierre","Alexandre Hudon"],"artifactType":"peer_reviewed","publishedDate":"2026-04-01","discoveredDate":"2026-07-08","summary":"PRISMA systematic review of 21 eligible studies applying natural language processing to clinical text for predicting violence toward self or others. Assesses predictive performance and methodological quality across the evidence base.","keyFindings":["NLP-enhanced models consistently outperformed structured-data-only approaches, with AUROC values frequently exceeding 0.80 for self-directed outcomes","Studies showed methodological inconsistencies and gaps in reporting calibration and fairness metrics","Concludes clinical text contains meaningful predictive signal but significant constraints remain before clinical deployment"],"methodologyNotes":"Peer-reviewed, Psychiatric Annals 56(4) (online-first 2026-03-24; print 2026-04-01), DOI 10.3928/00485713-20260324-03. 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