{
  "id": 6804,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23315v5",
  "title": "Unilateral Relationship Revision Power in Human-AI Companion Interaction",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Benjamin Lange",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": null,
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-03-24T15:18:48.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:45.893Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/6804",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23315v5",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}