AI RESEARCH
SLIP & ETHICS: Graduated Intervention for AI Emotional Companions
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.15915v1 Announce Type: cross AI emotional companions face a safety-rapport paradox: restrictive safeguards can damage ive alliance, while permissive systems risk user harm. We present SLIP (Staged Layers of Intervention Protocol), a four-stage graduated methodology deriving interventions (none, soft, hard) from structured qualitative indicators -- affect intensity (a) and narrative dynamism (m) -- alongside ETHICS (Emergent Taxonomy for Human-AI Interaction Context Signals), a "signals not labels" taxonomy.