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Phys.org — Technology · October 21, 2026 · On the brief until November 4, 2026

AI chatbots often give unsafe or incomplete advice to survivors of tech-enabled abuse, study finds

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Providing unsafe and inaccurate guidance to abuse survivors

Researchers found that AI chatbots gave inaccurate or unsafe guidance in 86 percent of tested technology-abuse questions. These tools frequently omitted warnings that taking technical actions could alert an abuser or escalate danger. Support practitioners cannot trust specialized or general chatbots to guide vulnerable clients through high-risk digital safety issues.

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Specialized domestic violence chatbots performed no better than general tools and frequently provided instructions that could assist abusers.

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