{"slug": "stigma-shame-and-secrecy-dr-agnieszka-piotrowska", "title": "Stigma shame and secrecy, Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska", "summary": "Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, an academic, writer, and filmmaker, has published a new study titled AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis that examines the psychological and ethical implications of human-AI relationships, exploring how people form emotional bonds with machines and what these attachments reveal about human desire and projection.", "body_md": "What happens, at a psychological level, when a person develops a close relationship with AI? Can AI love them back? And what does this attachment reveal about human desire, projection and responsibility?\n\nA groundbreaking study into the ethical and psychological implications of human-AI relationships, AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis by [Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska](https://agnieszkapiotrowska.co.uk), academic, writer and filmmaker, addresses the hugely topical, but hardly new, question of our emotional bonds with machines.\n\nTo find out more about this I caught up with Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska when she was recently in Dublin.\n\nDr Agnieszka Piotrowska talks about her background, her new book, Freud, AI models and more.\n\n##### About Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska:\n\nAgnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, trained psychologist, and psychoanalytic life coach. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and supervises doctoral students at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Staffordshire.\n\nHer documentary work includes Married to the Eiffel Tower ( 2008), a critically acclaimed and internationally broadcast film exploring unconventional human attachments, which established her international reputation as a filmmaker working at the intersection of psychology and human experience.\n\nShe is the author of The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics (Routledge, 2026), Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (Routledge, 2014 & 2023), and The Nasty Woman and the Neo-Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema (Routledge, 2019).\n\nSee more podcasts [here](https://irishtechnews.ie/category/podcast/).\n\n```\nMore about Irish Tech News\nIrish Tech News are Ireland’s No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland’s No.1 Tech Podcast too.\nYou can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news\nIf you’d like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at [email protected] now to discuss.\nIrish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at [email protected] now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience.\nYou can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.\n```\n\n", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stigma-shame-and-secrecy-dr-agnieszka-piotrowska", "canonical_source": "https://irishtechnews.ie/stigma-shame-and-secrecy-dr-agnieszka-piotrowska/", "published_at": "2026-07-21 13:00:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-21 13:18:06.440860+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska", "Oxford Brookes University", "University of Staffordshire"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stigma-shame-and-secrecy-dr-agnieszka-piotrowska", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stigma-shame-and-secrecy-dr-agnieszka-piotrowska.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stigma-shame-and-secrecy-dr-agnieszka-piotrowska.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stigma-shame-and-secrecy-dr-agnieszka-piotrowska.jsonld"}}