Unilateral Relationship Revision Power in Human-AI Companion Interaction
When providers update AI companions, users report grief, betrayal, and loss. A growing literature asks whether the norms governing personal relationships extend to these interactions. So what, if anything, is morally significant about them? I argue that this debate has missed a prior structural question: who controls the relationship, and from where? Human-AI companion interaction is a triadic structure in which the provider exercises constitutive control over the AI. I identify three structural
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Published: 24 March 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: unclassified
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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