Cloning the Self for Mental Well-Being: A Framework for Designing Safe and Therapeutic Self-Clone Chatbots.

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Mehrnoosh Sadat Shirvani, Jackie Crowley, Cher Peng, Jackie Liu, Thomas Chao, Suky Martinez, Laura Brandt, Ig-Jae Kim, Dongwook Yoon:
Cloning the Self for Mental Well-Being: A Framework for Designing Safe and Therapeutic Self-Clone Chatbots. CoRR abs/2601.15465 (2026)