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

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

AI companions can provide meaningful relationships, yet these relationships remain vulnerable to platform-initiated changes. We study AI companion disruptions: platform changes that alter or terminate users' ongoing companionship with an AI. We compile 30 disruption events across major platforms, develop a taxonomy of six disruption types, identify three broad reasons for disruption, and propose a risk-assessment framework comprising four dimensions: relational discontinuity, population vulnerability, communication deficit, and transition-support deficit. Using longitudinal Reddit data, we est

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