Event
The Ada Lovelace Lecture 2025
"I tell him everything that I do": An investigation of privacy and safety implications of AI companion usage By Junior Researcher Anine Henriksen | Tuesday, October 21st, 12:30-13:30, Campus Kolding, Auditorium K 11.57
The Center for AI Ethics is proud to celebrate Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
This year’s Ada Lovelace Lecture—slightly delayed due to the Autumn holiday—will be delivered by Anine Henriksen, MSc in Data Science and Junior Researcher at the Center for AI Ethics, SDU. Her research explores pressing questions in data ethics, human–AI interaction, information security, and privacy.
Abstract: Advances in generative AI and large language models have enabled the rise of AI chatbots, changing the ways we engage with technology in our everyday lives. In addition to chatbots being used in service functions, a new kind has emerged – the so-called AI companions aiming to provide social companionship and support mental health, similarly to human-to-human relationships.
In this talk, I will share the findings of our study on users of the AI chatbot Replika, marketed as “The AI companion who cares,” and discuss the privacy and safety implications that can emerge when users share extensive amounts of highly sensitive information and form emotional attachments with AI companions.
Time and place: Tuesday, October 21st, 12:30-13:30, Campus Kolding, Auditorium K 11.57