Article-Journal

Soft law for unintentional empathy: addressing the governance gap in emotion-recognition AI technologies

Despite regulatory efforts, there is a significant governance gap in managing emotion recognition AI technologies and those that emulate empathy. This paper asks: should …

Andrew McStay

• Sep 1, 2025 • 1 min read

AI Companions

Move fast and break people? Ethics, companion apps, and the case of Character.ai

Riffing off move fast and break things — the internal motto coined by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg — this paper examines the ethical dimensions of human relationships with AI companions, …

Andrew McStay

• Jun 10, 2025 • 1 min read

AI Companions

The Moral Threshold of AI Companionship

vian-bakir

• Jan 1, 2025 • 1 min read

Emulated Empathy: Can Risks Be Countered by a Soft-Law Standard?

Andrew McStay

• Jan 1, 2025 • 1 min read

Blurring the moral limits of data markets: biometrics, emotion and data dividends

vian-bakir

• Oct 1, 2024 • 1 min read

Artificial Intelligence

The hidden influence: exploring presence in human-synthetic interactions through ghostbots

Presence is a palpable sense of space, things and others that overlaps with matters of meaning, yet is not reducible to it: it is a dimension of things that hides in plain sight. …

Andrew McStay

• Jul 27, 2024 • 1 min read