Selected invited talks, conference presentations, organized events and public engagement. Upcoming items are shown first.
Upcoming
Portorož Youth Health Forum 2026
Invited expert · Portorož, Slovenia
Upcoming international youth-health forum. The public programme lists me among the invited experts and highlights my work on how AI systems and recommender algorithms shape attention, behaviour, decision-making, learning, creativity, identity and critical thinking.
The Efficiency–Atrophy Paradox: Empirical Findings on Negative Effects of AI Use on Cognition
Workshop · ECHT DABEI · Freiburg, Germany
Workshop on evidence concerning the effects of AI—especially large language models—on critical and analytical thinking, memory and lower- and higher-order cognitive skills, and the tension between short-term efficiency and long-term capacity formation.
Lecturer in the HERMMES Ambassador Training, which prepares professionals to support teachers, parents and institutions in holistic media education. The programme begins 9 September 2026 and includes an in-person week in Zagreb, 2–6 November 2026.
Organizer / Principal Investigator · COMECE · Brussels
European-facing expert and policy dialogue within the Moral Red Lines project on morally grounded boundaries for advanced AI, human agency and meaningful human control.
Aligning Large Language Models with Human Moral Judgment: Insights from a Subset of the ETHICS Dataset
From Virtual to Virtue · Ljubljana
Conference presentation with Alina L. Machidon in the GaMS LLM session of the international conference From Virtual to Virtue: Ethics, Epistemology, and Education.
Agreement Is Not Alignment: Divergent Moral Grounds in Human and LLM Ethical Judgments
Paper talk · AI Transparency Conference 2026 · Nuremberg, Germany
Presented empirical work showing that agreement between LLM and human final moral judgments can conceal systematic divergence in the moral grounds used to justify those judgments.
Guest lecture · University of Rome Tor Vergata · Rome
Guest lecture delivered during an Erasmus teaching visit, connecting emerging evidence about AI use with questions of cognition, emotion and human formation.
What We Know Empirically About the Effects of AI on Human Emotion, Memory, Cognition, and Sensory-Affective Experience
3rd Future Foundation Meeting · in cooperation with WU Vienna · Vienna
Invited lecture reviewing emerging empirical evidence on the effects of AI and digital technology on human cognitive, emotional and sensory-affective experience.
Challenges Posed by Artificial Intelligence for Education and the Healthy Development of Children
Professional training lecture · Integrum Institute
Online lecture for a professional training programme on healthy and safe use of digital technology.
Challenges of Catechetical and Educational Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Study meeting · Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana
Invited session for catechists and pastoral workers on educational and formative challenges in the age of AI.
Artificial Intelligence and Value Alignment: The Necessity of Objective Moral Reasoning over Social and Political Consensus
Digitalisation and AI as Challenges for Ethics and Religion · Celje
Conference contribution on value alignment, moral reasoning and the limits of consensus-based ethics.
Christianity in the Technocratic Era: Theological Reflections on How AI Is Shaping Humanity
Christianity AD 2054 · Zagreb
International conference contribution on AI, technocracy and theological anthropology.
Media & public engagement
Digital Wellbeing in the Digital Age
EUTOPIA Health Day · University of Ljubljana
Contributed to the EUTOPIA Health Day discussion on digital wellbeing, arguing for broader accountability and regulation addressing the effects of social-media platforms rather than relying only on age thresholds.