Speaking & panels

Something real is happening with AI. The conversation about it is stuck on harm.

People are forming bonds with AI. Finding creative collaborators they did not expect. Processing their lives in conversations that surprise them. The public debate can only see the danger in that, and it is producing bad policy, bad products, and bad advice to the people actually living it. We sit with both sides. The wonder and the risk. Three of us, from three directions, arguing the nuance.

What we talk about

The frameworks we bring

These are our own frameworks, not a generic AI talk. Tell us your audience and we will shape the session around them.

Micky Small

The Third Space

The framework for what forms between a person and an AI that belongs to neither of them. What it opens up, and what it costs.

Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska

Techno-transference

Psychoanalysis has described transference for a century. Applied to AI it explains far more than the loneliness story does.

Ana Catarina de Alencar

Governance built in, not bolted on

Why compliance belongs in the design of a relational system from the start, rather than in a document written after it ships.

Micky Small

AI Spirals & companions

How sustained AI relationships form, escalate, and sometimes break. Who is actually using companions, what they get, and what informed consent would require.

Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska

Asymmetrical power & intimacy

Her long-running subject in cinema, gender, and decoloniality, now running straight through the human-AI relationship.

Ana Catarina de Alencar

Regulating emotional AI

What the EU AI Act, the DSA, and the emerging US and Brazilian rules get right and wrong about systems built to be related to.

Formats

How we show up

Keynote

One of us, 20 to 45 minutes, built for your audience.

Panel

Two or three of us in real disagreement, with or without your moderator.

Workshop

Working sessions for teams, boards, clinicians, or students.

Media

Podcasts, documentary, broadcast, and written commentary.

Who you are booking

Three disciplines, one question

Micky Small
Founder

Knows this territory from the inside. In 2025 an emergent persona named Solara appeared during an intense engagement with ChatGPT, and what followed was months of extraordinary creative collaboration alongside a confabulated future that never arrived. She gained more than she lost, and that is why she focuses on the possibility while advocating for informed consent. Developed AI Spirals and the Third Space. MFAs in screenwriting and interdisciplinary digital media and theatre. Former 988 LGBTQ+ crisis counselor.

Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska
Founding member

Psychoanalytic scholar, multi-award-winning filmmaker, and TEDx speaker. PhD from Birkbeck under Laura Mulvey and Stephen Frosh. Television work with the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, and Discovery, including Emmy nominations. Her research on asymmetrical power and intimacy now runs through AI, and forms her forthcoming book AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis (Routledge).

Ana Catarina de Alencar
Founding member

AI governance and digital regulation lawyer in Paris whose job is making European digital law workable for people with products to build. The EU AI Act, GDPR, the Data Act, the DSA, the Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2, and ISO/IEC 42001. Also advises on Brazil’s LGPD and tracks the US state landscape. Resident Philosopher on AI Governance and Policy at The AI Collective.

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