We’re proud to share our team lead Dr. Jessica Szczuka’s third published paper within just one month, this time at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026) — a fantastic venue for interdisciplinary research that particularly values governance-oriented work at the intersection of technology and society.
Together with Henry Fraser and Raffaele Ciriello, the paper examines the regulation of AI companions and argues that, from the perspective of compassionate governance, responsibility should not primarily rest with users. Instead, providers of companion chatbots should bear greater responsibility for preventing foreseeable harms and fostering safer, more accountable forms of artificial intimacy.
It was a pleasure to work across psychology, law, and information systems to tackle such an important topic together.
Read the paper here: dl.acm.org
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