I have a particular interest in the role of non-violence in AI, automated decision-making, chatbots and associated technologies.
This interest includes the ethical and legal issues associated with AI and its use in mental health applications.
My academic concerns extend to the medical, philosophical and sociological issues of AI and human rights.
I am following developments in the legislated social media restrictions for children, AI ethics and AI governance.
Recent AI tech research:
AI Resources
| Title | URL | Year | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial intelligence policymaking: An agenda for sociological research | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23780231241261596 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| Promising for patients or deeply disturbing? The ethical and legal aspects of deepfake therapy | https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/51/7/481.full.pdf | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| The Law’s Protection Against Children as Victims of Exploitation Artificial Intelligence-Based Cyberpornography | https://dinastires.org/JLPH/article/download/1725/1499 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| Ethical Implications of AI‐Driven Chatbots in Domestic Violence Support | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/download/9998/4604 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| Designing AI to Help Children Flourish | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=5179894 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| AI Moderation and Legal Frameworks in Child-Centric Social Media: A Case Study of Roblox | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/14/3/29 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| ‘No, Alexa, no!’: designing child-safe AI and protecting children from the risks of the ‘empathy gap’ in large language models | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17439884.2024.2367052 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| AI’s empathy gap: The risks of conversational Artificial Intelligence for young children’s well-being and key ethical considerations for early childhood education and care | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14639491231206004 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| Researching children’s experiences of generative artificial intelligence: a child rights approach | https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/129141/1/Researching_children_s_experiences_of_GenAI_A_child_rights_approach_Stoilova_et_al_2025.pdf | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| All too human? Identifying and mitigating ethical risks of Social AI | https://philarchive.org/archive/SHEATH-4 | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| “It happened to be the perfect thing”: experiences of generative AI chatbots for mental health | https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-024-00097-4.pdf | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| The Three Social Dimensions of Chatbot Technology | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13347-024-00826-9.pdf | 2024 | AI Ethics |
| A Liability Framework for AI Companions | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=5172386 | 2024 | AI Governance |
| The Legal Challenges of Realistic and AI-Driven Child Sexual Abuse Material: Regulatory and Enforcement Perspectives in Europe | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/13/6/67 | 2024 | AI Governance |
| “More than Words”: A Legal Approach to the Risks of Commercial Chatbots Powered by Generative Artificial Intelligence | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4EB4DD9997211B81283EF7B34299E254/S1867299X24000047a.pdf/div-class-title-more-than-words-a-legal-approach-to-the-risks-of-commercial-chatbots-powered-by-generative-artificial-intelligence-div.pdf | 2024 | AI Governance |
| The Legal Status of Artificial Intelligence: The Need to Form a Legal Personality and Regulate Copyright | https://ojs.bonviewpress.com/index.php/AIA/article/download/3901/1304 | 2025 | AI Governance |
| Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jels.12413 | 2024 | AI Governance |
| A New Research Model for Artificial Intelligence–Based Well-Being Chatbot Engagement: Survey Study | https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2024/1/e59908/ | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Navigating Human-Chatbot Interactions: An Investigation into Factors Influencing User Satisfaction and Engagement | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10447318.2023.2301252 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| When chatbots fail: exploring user coping following a chatbots-induced service failure | https://www.emerald.com/itp/article-pdf/37/8/175/9465179/itp-08-2023-0745.pdf | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Roles, Users, Benefits, and Limitations of Chatbots in Health Care: Rapid Review | https://www.jmir.org/2024/1/e56930/ | 2024 | Chatbots |
| History of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots: past, present, and future development | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.05122\ | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Large Language Models for Chatbot Health Advice Studies: A Systematic Review | https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/articlepdf/2829839/huo_2025_oi_241622_1738013008.77598.pdf | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Driving AI chatbot adoption: A systematic review of factors, barriers, and future research directions | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2199853125001258 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| A Systematic Review and Comprehensive Analysis of Pioneering AI Chatbot Models from Education to Healthcare: ChatGPT, Bard, Llama, Ernie and Grok | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/16/7/219/pdf | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Rules over words: Regulation of chatbots in the legal market and ethical considerations | https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2052/64/3/article-p472.pdf | 2024 | Chatbots |
| AI-enabled chatbots healthcare systems: an ethical perspective on trust and reliability | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Subhan-Shahid/publication/386250504_AI-enabled_chatbots_healthcare_systems_an_ethical_perspective_on_trust_and_reliability/links/674a1d41359dcb4d9d436991/AI-enabled-chatbots-healthcare-systems-an-ethical-perspective-on-trust-and-reliability.pdf | 2024 | Chatbots |
| A literature review of user privacy concerns in conversational chatbots: A social informatics approach: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper | https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asi.24898 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Building Trust with Generative AI Chatbots: Exploring Explainability, Privacy, and User Acceptance | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad-Ashraf-Faheem/publication/386330933_Building_Trust_with_Generative_AI_Chatbots_Exploring_Explainability_Privacy_and_User_Acceptance/links/674d7838a7fbc259f1a5c5b9/Building-Trust-with-Generative-AI-Chatbots-Exploring-Explainability-Privacy-and-User-Acceptance.pdf | 2024 | Chatbots |
| A ‘design justice’ approach to developing digital tools for addressing gender-based violence: exploring the possibilities and limits of feminist chatbots | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2363900 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| How chatbots perceive sexting by adolescents | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949882124000288 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Challenges of Generative AI Chatbots in Public Services -An Integrative Review | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=4850714 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| The uses of chatbots in the context of children and teenagers bullying: a systematic literature review | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2312032 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Ask Me Anything: Exploring children’s attitudes toward an age-tailored AI-powered chatbot | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14217 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Designing Chatbots to Support Victims and Survivors of Domestic Abuse | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17393 | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Chatbots and warning messages: innovations in the fight against online child sexual abuse | https://lff-spaces-cdn.lon1.digitaloceanspaces.com/lff-files/Faithfull_Paper_Chatbots.pdf | 2024 | Chatbots |
| Manipulation and the AI Act: Large Language Model Chatbots and the Danger of Mirrors | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.18387 | 2025 | Chatbots |
| Why AI chatbots lie to us | https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aea3922 | 2025 | Chatbots |
| Disclosure, humanizing, and contextual vulnerability of generative AI chatbots | https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Disclosure,%20humanizing,%20and%20Contextual%20Vulnerability%20(Published)_762b6259-ca7f-422f-b705-3172f0006f40.pdf | 2025 | Chatbots |
| Exploring user security and privacy attitudes and concerns toward the use of {General-Purpose}{LLM} chatbots for mental health | https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-kwesi.pdf | 2025 | Chatbots |
| The Future of AI-Powered Chatbots: Enhancing User Experience While Mitigating Privacy Risks | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beauden-John/publication/389282927_The_Future_of_AI-Powered_Chatbots_Enhancing_User_Experience_While_Mitigating_Privacy_Risks/links/67bd2a30207c0c20fa95a78a/The-Future-of-AI-Powered-Chatbots-Enhancing-User-Experience-While-Mitigating-Privacy-Risks.pdf | 2025 | Chatbots |
| Could AI Make Legalese Comprehensible to the Public? | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=5220337 | 2025 | Chatbots |