Agnieszka brings the depth of attachment, transference, identity, and intimacy to the study of human-AI bonds, explaining what actually happens when people relate to machines.
I am Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, SFHEA, EMCC, a multi award-winning filmmaker, keynote and TEDx speaker, and psychoanalytic scholar. I make documentaries and video essays. I write about ethics, creativity, and the shape of human experience.
I supervise PhD students internationally and mentor researchers and creatives through The Scholars’ Mentor. I am the founder of Relational AI Consulting™. My writing on human-AI relationships returns again and again to memory and to care.
I have a regular column in Times Higher Education on AI ethics and human-AI relationships, write a Substack on the same themes, and co-host the podcast Relational AI Diaries. My book AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis is published by Routledge.
Her central concept. Psychoanalysis has described transference for a century. Applied to AI it explains far more than the loneliness story does.
Her long-running research subject in cinema, gender, and decoloniality, now running through the human-AI relationship.
Her forthcoming book with Routledge, drawing the psychoanalytic and the technological together.
Psychoanalytic life coaching and PhD supervision through The Scholars’ Mentor, with a near 100% completion rate.