Disrupted Companionship: A Risk Assessment Framework and Cross-Platform Quantitative Analysis of Psychosocial Responses to AI Companion Disruptions

arXiv:2609.16907 · cs.HC, cs.CL, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-09-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.CL, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-15

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Affordance — 25× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Sycophancy — 8× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Affective Computing — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Affective Norms for English Words — 1× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Nadia — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Parasocial Relationships with Artificial Intelligence — 1× in this paper

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• Lessons From an App Update at Replika AI: Identity Discontinuity in Human-AI Relationships
• The Impact of Security and Privacy Controls on Users' Emotional Engagement with Generative AI Chatbots
• Large Language Models Produce Responses Perceived to be Empathic
• A new ANEW: Evaluation of a word list for sentiment analysis in microblogs
• "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
• Does Content Moderation Lead Users Away from Fringe Movements? Evidence from a Recovery Community
• The Fragility of AI Companionship: Ontological, Structural, and Normative Uncertainty in Human-AI Relationships

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