Research / Child safety · Safety & wellbeing
A study in which young people built their own chatbots found differences by age in how they understood confidence, transparency and trustworthiness.
Why it matters
Trust calibration deserves attention alongside answer accuracy. A confident presentation may mean something different to a younger user.
Read with care
A chatbot-design study, not a population survey or a test of long-term companion safety. The arXiv record is a preprint; peer-reviewed acceptance was not verified.
What was checked
Authors’ abstract and version history checked.