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Afsaneh Razi

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A Responsive Present, a Shared Past, a Social Other: Teens'Overreliance on Companion AI Chatbots

AI companions provide socially engaging interaction through availability, personalization, memory, roleplay, and emotionally responsive language. For teens, these systems may support sensitive self-disclosure, identity exploration, and relationship rehearsal while shaping intimacy expectations, offline relationships, e...

M. Namvarpour, Tyler Chang, Afsaneh Razi · 0 citations

Book Open access Jul 2026

“You Need to Drop the App”: Online Community Responses to Teens’ Disclosures of Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots

AI companion chatbots are used for emotional interaction and companionship, particularly among adolescents. Prior research explains how youth become attached to AI systems, but less is known about how others respond when problematic reliance is disclosed. We examined 973 comment trees from 144 Reddit posts where self-i...

M. Namvarpour, Ananya Mhetras, Jessica Y. Medina et al. · International Conference on... · 0 citations