SPRITE+ and Digital Futures: Lunch and Learn with Jennifer Cearns
| Dates: | 15 October 2025 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 13:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Digital Futures |
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| Who is it for: | Early years, University staff, External researchers, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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Time & Location
15 Oct 2025, 13:00 – 13:30
Online
About the event
Join SPRITE+ and our event partner Digital Futures on Wednesday 15th October for Dr Jennifer Cearns' talk 'Through the Looking Glass? The Collapse of Self/Other in AI Mental Health Apps'.
Dr Jennifer Cearns is a digital anthropologist, specialising in AI and algorithms in social life. Her research focuses on how people relate to one another through emerging intelligent technologies, exploring the ideological and cultural underpinnings of these new formulations of the self, personhood and kinship. She is currently conducting researching into Human-AI relations, looking at intimacy and how trust and empathy forms between humans and AIs. Her research considers romantic relationships with AI, grief and bereavement, AI and memory aids for those living with dementia, the epistmology of AI, and the role of AI in embryo selection.
Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network that operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research. They aim to present a coherent overview of The University of Manchester's digital research activity to external stakeholders and bring together research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.
Visit the Digital Futures website: https://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/
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