Previous Dates and Presentations

Meeting #7

November 18th, 9am CET

Final Discussion of Season 1

Meeting #6

October 21st, 9am CEST

Input by Dan Weijers (University of Waikato): Dissociation from Friendships and AI

Meeting #5

September 23rd, 9am CEST

Input by Jacy Reese Anthis (Sentience Institute): Recent Findings on Digital Companionship in Users of Replika and Character.AI

Meeting #4

August 19th, 9am CEST

Input by Hendrik Kempt (RWTH Aachen): Simulated Reasoning in Reasoning Models

Meeting #3

July 22nd, 2025, 9am CEST

Input by Renwen Zhang (NUS): Recent Findings on Emotional Attachments of Users to AI-Companions

Meeting #2

June 24th, 2025, 9am CEST

Input by Nick Munn (U of Waikato): What does it mean to be optimistic about Human-AI-Friendships?