Emotional and intimate interactions with AI and robots

When we engage with interactive technologies, we engage emotionally. The conversational abilities of generative AI has pushed such interactions into the public consciousness but it builds on centuries of narratives and observations about the ways we relate socially to machines. For some people, these interactions become more than simply functional, and users form intimate relationships with the technologies, including love and sex. This talk will reflect on the emotional stakes of such interactions, and what it means for our social, ethical, and cultural frameworks. 

About the speaker
Kate Devlin is Professor of AI & Society at King’s College London. She is Chair-Director of the King’s Digital Futures Institute, and a co-investigator on the national Responsible AI UK programme. She is the author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots (Bloomsbury, 2018).

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