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Event | Philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on AI-companionship

By the Wellbeing and Virtual Worlds project

Date: 10-11th June 2026
Time: 9.30-16.30
Place: University of Southern Denmark, Odense, (Room: June 10th: O100; June 11th: O97)

June 10th (O100)
9:30-9.45 Søren Harnow Klausen (SDU): Introduction
9.45-10.35 Lucy Osler (Exeter): Devotional AI: AI Companions and Bad Faith Love
10.45-11.35 Renee Ye (Bochum): AI Companionship: A New Frontier
11.45-12.35 Anne Gerdes (SDU): Stochastic Care
12.35-13.20 Lunch
13.20-14.10 Chunfang Zhou (SDU): How did it Feel to Work with ChatGPT?
14.20-15.10 Niclas Rautenberg (Hamburg): A critical phenomenology of flourishing with/out AI:
15.30-16.30 Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota): It’s Good to Be Loved: Experientialism and the Problem of Chatbots

June 11th (O97)
9:30-10:20 Flor Pasturino & Matthew Dennis (Eindhoven): Sphere- Transgressions in Mental Health Chatbots
10.30-11.20 Victoria Paul (SDU): Being somebody else: AI and playfulness
11.30-12.20 Helena Ward (Oxford): Grief Bots and Continued Bonds
12.20-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.50 Anastasiia Babash (Tartu): Why Dating the Wrong Person Might Be Good for You: AI and the Diagnostic Value of Freedom
14.00-14.50 Søren Harnow Klausen (SDU): AI and self-cultivation
15.05-15.55 Matthews Dennis (Eindhoven): The Ethical Dangers of Content- Creating Machines

Redaktionen afsluttet: 10.06.2026