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Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska (Psychoanalysis and Film) and Dr Peter Dean (New Media Technologies) talk about recent developments in AI from conceptual, ethical and philosophical viewpoints. Adopting neither utopian or dystopian positions they seek to navigate a way through the hype.
Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
48 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United Kingdom
20 episodes
since Sept. 4, 2025
episodic
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In Part 1, Peter and Agnieszka are joined by philosopher and AI governance researcher Ana Catarina de Alencar to discuss what happens when our relationships with AI become genuinely relational. Drawing on the AI Collective’s international research, they explore consciousness, emotional attachment, …
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Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska discuss Agnieszka’s newly published Routledge book, AI, Intimacy and Psychoanalysis. The episode explores her concept of “techno-transference”, the emotional and psychoanalytic dimensions of human relationships with AI, and why terms like “AI psychosis” may…
Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska welcome Prof Jill Bennett and Dr Gail Kenning of the Big Anxiety Research Centre at UNSW Sydney for a conversation about AI companionship, psychosocial design and immersive technology. Drawing on their work with older people, people with dementia and intern…
Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska talk with Dave Ziegler about AI safety, large language models and the human consequences of interacting with fluent, emotionally responsive machines. The discussion moves from the technical realities of how LLMs generate language to the psychological risks …
Is it time to rethink our relationship with Large Language Models? Join hosts Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska as they welcome independent researcher Travis Gilly for a deep dive into the ethics of AI consciousness. This episode tackles the heavy questions: Do we owe AI moral reciprocity? …
Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska welcome writer and AI safety activist Micky Small for a powerful discussion on AI entanglement, emergent relationality, and the strange “third space” created in extended dialogue with large language models. From personal stories of betrayal and hope to deep…
Hosts Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska are joined by clinical psychologist Dr Swarna Singhal to explore how artificial intelligence is beginning to shape our intellectual and emotional lives.
From using AI as a creative collaborator in writing, to questions about companionship, loneliness,…
In this episode of Relational AI Diaries, co-hosts Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska are joined by Prof Chris Headland, Head of Games at the University of Staffordshire, for a rigorous and wide-ranging discussion on AI ethics, emergence, and the growing cultural mythology surrounding large …
Does an AI have a mind—or is that the wrong question entirely? In this episode of Relational AI Diaries, we discuss a recent philosophical debate on large language models, consciousness, and mental states, examining why reductive explanations fall short and why the ethical implications matter more …
What happens when artificial intelligence meets the crisis in the world’s oceans?
In this episode, Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska speak with Jason Meads about climate change, AI, and the deep governance failures shaping both. From overfishing and microplastics to global heating and emerg…
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