AI in therapy, responsible AI, grief and digital wellbeing
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Academics, therapists, counsellors and mental health practitioners
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In person keynotes and workshops, and virtual talks. A 60 minute session is preferred, with flexibility for the audience. Final format, duration and availability are confirmed for each event.
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Four sessions on responsible AI, mental health and human relationships.
AI in Therapy: Ethical Obligations in Practice
Examine the ethical responsibilities involved in using AI chatbots in mental health practice, including crisis disclosures, dependency, confidentiality and clinical scrutiny.
Recognise ethical risks in chatbot responses, including crisis handling, distorted self beliefs and simulated empathy.
Explain why plausible language and effective prompting do not establish clinical safety.
Examine confidentiality, data use and competence boundaries when considering AI in practice.
Responsible AI for the Afterlife
Explore consent, digital remains and the governance of technologies that recreate or represent people after death.
Identify governance and data protection questions affecting digital remains.
Examine consent challenges for the deceased and for living relatives affected by AI inferences.
Distinguish designs that support remembrance from those that replace relationships or exploit grief.
Responsible AI for Death and Dying
Consider the evidence and ethical questions around grief support AI, with attention to vulnerable users, cultural differences and community participation.
Assess the mixed evidence on whether grief support AI helps or hinders adaptation to loss.
Identify safeguarding concerns for isolated people, children and people experiencing complicated grief.
Explain why responsible design should involve affected communities and respect cultural and faith differences.
Digital Wellbeing and Online Safety: The Case of DeathTech
Use DeathTech to examine digital wellbeing, privacy, platform responsibility and the balance between support and overreliance.
Weigh potential support benefits against dependency, emotional detachment and privacy risks.
Identify gaps in online safety approaches to memorialised accounts and AI recreations.
Apply lessons from DeathTech to broader questions of data rights and platform responsibility.
About Elvira
Mental health and responsible innovation
Professor Elvira Pérez Vallejos is Professor of Mental Health and Digital Technology at the University of Nottingham, with a joint post between the schools of Computer Science and Medicine. Her work focuses on ethical and responsible technological innovation for mental health and wellbeing, including the use of generative AI to support care at the end of life.
She was recognised in the 2025 list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.
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What does Professor Elvira Pérez Vallejos speak about?
Topics include AI in Therapy: Ethical Obligations in Practice; Responsible AI for the Afterlife; Responsible AI for Death and Dying; Digital Wellbeing and Online Safety: The Case of DeathTech.
Which formats does Professor Elvira Pérez Vallejos offer?
In person keynotes and workshops, and virtual talks. A 60 minute session is preferred, with flexibility for the audience. Final format, duration and availability are confirmed for each event.
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