Reduced Access or Use Boundaries

Description

The person accepts limits on AI use, device use, model access, nighttime use, or unsafe platforms.

Rationale

Acceptance of limits on AI access or use demonstrates that the person has some capacity for external behavioral constraint, which is necessary for any management plan. The willingness, conditions, and durability of those limits — and who is monitoring them — all affect their protective value.

Evidence Base

• “You Need to Drop the App”: Online Community Responses to Teens’ Disclosures of Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots

  Mohammad (Matt) Namvarpour, Ananya Mhetras, Jessica Y Medina, Mamtaj Akter, and Afsaneh Razi, 2026. “You Need to Drop the App”: Online Community Responses to Teens’ Disclosures of Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots. In ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026 (CUI ’26), July 21–24, 2026, Bremen, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3816046.3816214

  Peer-reviewed study (original research)