Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska is a keynote and TEDx speaker, author, and psychoanalytic scholar working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis and human relationships. She is the author of AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2026) and originator of the concept of “techno-transference” – a psychoanalytic framework for understanding the unconscious projections we bring to our relationships with AI. In June 2026 she delivered the closing keynote at IAPP AI Governance Global Europe in Dublin, and she writes regularly for Times Higher Education on AI ethics and human-AI relationships.
She is also a multi-award-winning filmmaker, best known for the documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower, and her current film Friend of a Friend reimagines AI not as threat but as a story of love and mourning. She co-hosts the podcast Relational AI Diaries, publishes a Substack on these themes, founded Relational AI Consulting, and supervises doctoral researchers internationally.
Recent Activities
- Closing keynote, IAPP AI Governance Global Europe, Dublin (June 2026)
- TEDx Bradford (June 2026)
- AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis and The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics – both Routledge, 2026
- Featured in BBC Science Focus on AI companions
- Friend of a Friend – AI-generated short film, 2026
Agnieszka Piotrowska 