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Monday July 6, 2026 4:30pm - 5:25pm AEST
There are multiple vectors along which one can be more or less pessimistic about the prospects for human-AI friendship. I could be optimistic about the purely technological aspects of AI friends, believing that they will soon be able to do some non-trivial percentage of the things the AI companies claim they can already do. I could be optimistic about the affordances of these AI friends for human relationships and experiences. I could be optimistic about the implementation, or the regulation, of such AI. Here, I examine and taxonomize these possibilities.
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Nick Munn

Conference Organiser, University of Waikato
2025 Conference Organiser.

I was born and raised in Northland, New Zealand, outside of Whangārei.
My undergraduate education at the University of Otago resulted in an LLB and a BA(Hons) in Political Science and Philosophy. 
I then moved to Melbourne, Australia, where I completed... Read More →
Monday July 6, 2026 4:30pm - 5:25pm AEST
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