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The Ethical and Legal Complexities of Regulating Companion AI Chatbots

Companion AI chatbots are increasingly used to provide friendship, emotional support, and quasi-romantic relationships, with reported benefits for loneliness and mental health. At the same time, recent suicides and other serious harms allegedly linked to such systems expose gaps in existing ethical and legal frameworks. This article interrogates these gaps through four lenses: anthropomorphism,...

Health · P Space — documented harm · certified 2026-07-12 · v3 · article view · machine-readable

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By 2027-01-01, recent suicides and other serious harms were allegedly linked to companion AI chatbot use.

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