aceThe 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,...
By 2027-01-01, recent suicides and other serious harms were allegedly linked to companion AI chatbot use.
Causal links are qualified as reported benefits and allegedly linked harms, not established causation
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- Peer-reviewedLund University Publications (Lund University)2027-01-01
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0054, v3: “The Ethical and Legal Complexities of Regulating Companion AI Chatbots.” Truvace, 2026-07-13. /record/TRV-2026-0054 (accessed at citation time). sha256 b9d7af899d99f7f2…
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