Call for Registration, 8th CAIR/AI4Society Symposium: The Future of AI Companions
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Programme:
09.30 - 09.45: Welcome & Introduction
09.45 - 10.15: Talk 1: AI Companions and the Risks of Overalignment
Filippos Stamatiou, Center for Philosophy of AI, University of Copenhagen
10.15 - 10.45: Talk 2: Can Closeness Break Reality? AI Companionship and the Desire for
Omnipotence
Sandrine R. Schiller, Center for Philosophy of AI, University of Copenhagen
10.45 - 11.15: Talk 3: Befriending your AI companion: is this the (end of the) road to
human flourishing?
Mihaela Constantinescu, Research Center in Applied Ethics (CCEA), University of Bucharest
11.15 - 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00: Talk 4: Liability for Companion Chatbots – Insights From the ‘Law in Action’
Jan De Bruyne, Centre for IT & IP Law, KU Leuven
12.00 - 12.30: Talk 5: The Legal and Ethical Complexities of Regulating Companion AI
Chatbots
Sue Anne Teo, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
12.30 - 13.00: Talk 6: AI Companions in Unequal Spaces: Spatial Fairness, Place-Based
Harm, and the Ethics of Situated AI
Gandhi Jafta, University of Pretoria
13.00 - 14:30: Lunch
14.30 - 15.00: Talk 7: AI Agents in Dialogue: A Freirean Critique of the use of Digital
Technologies in Education
Nathisvaran Govender, North-West University
16.15 - 16.45: Talk 8: Becoming After Death: An Agential Realist Inquiry into Digital
Immortality
Vipra Chopra, Deakin University
15.00 - 15.30: Talk 9: Designing AI Companions in Learning Management Systems: An
Instructional Design Perspective on Guidance, Agency, and Responsibility
Ciska Snyman, Department for Education Innovation, University of Pretoria
16.00 - 16.15: Coffee Break
15.30 - 16.00: Talk 10: Learning analytics as institutional AI companions: Care, control,
and the limits of personalisation
Mashite Tshidi, University of Pretoria
16.45 - 17.15: Talk 11: Virtue Theatre: Artificial Virtues and Hermeneutic Harm
Fabio Tollon, Centre for Technomoral Futures, University of Edinburgh