How design choices affect human-AI interaction

Every design choice has a side. How Design Choices Affect Human-AI Interaction is a one-day symposium for researchers, philosophers, and industry practitioners who believe that how we build AI matters as much as what we build.

The stakes are real. Hidden patterns shape behaviour without users noticing, simulated empathy is deployed as a conversion tool, and systems are optimised for engagement and retention rather than for you. As AI becomes more capable and more embedded in everyday life, these choices compound in ways that are rarely examined openly. The cost shows up slowly, in eroded attention, in diminished agency, and in a growing gap between what AI systems promise and what they actually deliver.

But the question is not only what goes wrong. Trustworthy AI is not a utopian concept or a distant regulatory ideal. It is an achievable design outcome, and some people are already building it. The difference between AI that serves and AI that exploits often comes down to decisions made early, by specific people and in specific rooms. This symposium is as much about what those decisions look like when they go right as it is about diagnosing where and why they go wrong.

That is the conversation we want to have. Not a polished panel of consensus, but an honest exchange between people who approach these questions from genuinely different angles and have something to learn from each other.

Come and join us at the How design choices affect human-AI interaction symposium in Bratislava on Thursday, 18 June 2026.

Digital Humanism symposium #4: How design choices affect human-AI interaction

📅 Thursday, 18 June 2026
⏰ 09:00–16:30
📍 The Spot, Skypark, Bottova 2A, 811 09 Bratislava

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