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SUMMARY:SPRITE+ and Digital Futures: Lunch and Learn with Jennifer Cearns
 
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DESCRIPTION:Time & Location\n15 Oct 2025\, 13:00 – 13:30\n\nOnline\n\nAbo
 ut the event\nJoin SPRITE+ and our event partner Digital Futures on Wedn
 esday 15th October for Dr Jennifer Cearns' talk 'Through the Looking Gla
 ss? The Collapse of Self/Other in AI Mental Health Apps'. \n\nDr Jennife
 r Cearns is a digital anthropologist\, specialising in AI and algorithms
  in social life. Her research focuses on how people relate to one anothe
 r through emerging intelligent technologies\, exploring the ideological 
 and cultural underpinnings of these new formulations of the self\, perso
 nhood 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 dement
 ia\, the epistmology of AI\, and the role of AI in embryo selection.\n\n
 Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network that operates acro
 ss the whole range of the University’s digital research. They aim to pre
 sent a coherent overview of The University of Manchester's digital resea
 rch activity to external stakeholders and bring together research commun
 ities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.
 \n\nVisit the Digital Futures website: https://www.digitalfutures.manche
 ster.ac.uk/\n\nSPRITE+ Lunch and Learn is your chance to find out the la
 test developments in the world of Trust\, Identity\, Privacy and Securit
 y (TIPS). Join us every third Wednesday of the month at 1:00pm (GMT) for
  a lightning 20 minute talk from an Industry or Academic expert followed
  by 10 minutes of Q&A.
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