Research
Long-form synthesis of the academic literature, policy environment, and ethical questions around AI companions.
This is the section of the site for serious readers. Journalists, researchers, therapists, policymakers, and thoughtful current users. Every piece here is grounded in primary sources, with full citations and an honest accounting of what the evidence does and does not support.
A grounded synthesis of the peer-reviewed work. Loneliness, attachment, dependency, the displacement debate, the policy backdrop. What we know, what we don't, and what to do about it.