At CPDP conference in Brussels, Dr. Jessica Szczuka participated in a panel “Intimacy-by-Design: Governing Human-AI Relationships”, together with Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere, Christian Geminn and Megan Leal Causton — moderated by our team member, Lisa Mühl.
The panel explored how AI companions are increasingly engineered to foster emotional closeness and sustained self-disclosure and the resulting risks, from power asymmetries to insufficient youth protection and growing data privacy concerns. A key question discussed: what happens when vulnerability isn’t just a byproduct of technology, but systematically produced through design?
We were also able to share first glimpses of the artistic work emerging as part of our research project SENTIMENT; a sneak peek ahead of our big exhibition, coming to Kunstwerk Cologne in December, led by Joel Baumann and Laura Därr (https://lnkd.in/esvA3SkF).
Moreover, Dr. Jessica Szcuzka and Lisa Mühl attended Avatar.fm, the conference’s onsite radio show, where we had a discussion on how scientific and artistic research intersect and how that intersection can open up entirely new ways of understanding human-AI relationships.
It’s encouraging to see the privacy community increasingly recognizing intimate human-AI interaction as a serious governance challenge
More information about the conference talk at: https://cpdp.be/123456
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