BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c6b6e56e-0f10-403a-adc2-c2df99ed6fc0.228221@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20230628T211901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T211901Z LOCATION: SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference 2023 - Virtual Plenary Speaker Diego Sen ior: The Very Real Implications of AI chatbots and Mental Health DESCRIPTION:Mr. Senior and his team followed the lives and stories of seve ral users of a GPT-driven chatbot app called Replika for more than two ye ars. Users of this app can create their own AI chatbots that offer "compa nionship." Their capabilities\, albeit rudimentary\, do open the user's i magination in the creation of this chatbot's personality. He also explore d the evolution of the technology that allowed for these relationships to not only exist within the app\, but also flourish. Senior interviewed va rious experts\, developers as well to address all the problems that AI dr iven chatbots can create for people who actually need companionship and t rue mental health help (addiction\, gamification\, disassociation\, among st others).    X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><s pan>Mr. Senior and his team followed the lives and stories of several use rs of a GPT-driven chatbot app called Replika for more than two years. Us ers of this app can create their own AI chatbots that offer "companionshi p." Their capabilities\, albeit rudimentary\, do open the user's imaginat ion in the creation of this chatbot's personality. He also explored the e volution of the technology that allowed for these relationships to not on ly exist within the app\, but also flourish. Senior interviewed various e xperts\, developers as well to&nbsp\;address all the problems that AI dri ven chatbots can create for people who actually need companionship and tr ue mental health help (</span><span>addiction\, gamification\, disassocia tion\, amongst others).&nbsp\;</span><span>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</span></p></bod y></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230927T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230927T131500 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/2023/ CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR