COMECE Commission of Ethics — Expert consultation
A Moral Red Lines expert consultation on boundaries for advanced AI and meaningful human control.
Talks & Events
Selected invited talks, workshops, conference presentations, organised events and public engagement.
Upcoming
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Superintelligence, Work, and Human Relationships — Expert workshop
A Moral Red Lines expert workshop on superintelligence, work and human relationships.
Ongoing
HERMMES Ambassador Training
Invited lecturer in the HERMMES Ambassador Training, which prepares professionals to support teachers, parents and institutions in holistic media education. The programme runs from 9 September 2026 through November 2027 and includes an in-person week in Zagreb, 2–6 November 2026.
Past talks & events
The ‘Human’ in Flux: Culture, Authority, and Meaning in the Age of AI
Opened the roundtable with a brief overview of AI's rapid progress since 2022, emerging reasoning and agent capabilities, and the implications for human agency, learning, work, relationships, infrastructure, and environmental responsibility. Framed the wider stakes as a choice between AI's promises, its costs, and the degree of human control over the future being built.
The Efficiency–Atrophy Paradox: Empirical Findings on Negative Effects of AI Use on Cognition
An interactive workshop on AI assistance, independent thinking and the difference between task performance and learning.
Digital Media and Children's Development — Classification and Interactive Illustration of Mechanisms
A joint lecture with interactive demonstrations of how digital media affect children's cognition, learning and development.
Behind the Scroll: Algorithms, Attention & Youth Wellbeing
A session for youth workers and youth-health participants on recommender systems, attention, learning and relationships on digital platforms.
Challenges to Youth Development, Education, and Safety in the Digital Age
A lecture for teachers and educators at Gimnazija Želimlje on young people's development, education and safety in digital environments.
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Aligning Large Language Models with Human Moral Judgment: Insights from a Subset of the ETHICS Dataset
Conference presentation with Alina L. Machidon in the GaMS LLM session of the international conference From Virtual to Virtue: Ethics, Epistemology, and Education.
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Agreement Is Not Alignment: Divergent Moral Grounds in Human and LLM Ethical Judgments
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.
The Impact of AI on Cognition and Emotion
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
Invited lecture reviewing emerging empirical evidence on the effects of AI and digital technology on human cognitive, emotional and sensory-affective experience.
Digital Wellbeing in the Digital Age
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.
Artificial Intelligence and Youth
Public discussion on artificial intelligence and young people.
Challenges Posed by Artificial Intelligence for Education and the Healthy Development of Children
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
Invited session for catechists and pastoral workers on educational and formative challenges in the age of AI.
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From Echo Chambers to Emotional Crutches: The New Seduction of AI and the Decline of Human Relationality
Conference talk on the shift from algorithmic curation to emotionally responsive artificial agents and the implications for human relationality.
Generative AI and Human Creativity
Public lecture on generative artificial intelligence and human creativity.
How the Digital Revolution Challenges Our Humanity
Public-facing lecture on the anthropological and ethical challenges of digital transformation.
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Artificial Intelligence and Value Alignment: The Necessity of Objective Moral Reasoning over Social and Political Consensus
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
International conference contribution on AI, technocracy and theological anthropology.
Cancelled or postponed
Status as of (Ljubljana).