AI in the Mind | Online

Join Professor Saskia De Maat in this exclusive Masterclass as she explores Unconscious Dynamics, Trust, and Disempowerment in the Age of Intelligent Machines

This session will be moderated by Katharina Kopf, Assistant Director, Recruitment and Business Development, Specialised Degrees.

This is an online webinar and will be available on-demand post the session.

Masterclass Topic: AI in the Mind - Unconscious Dynamics, Trust, and Disempowerment in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Masterclass Synopsis:

Artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful new social actor, reshaping daily life and organizational realities. Amid the many unknowns about how it will evolve—intensified by wider social, economic, and geopolitical shifts—AI evokes strong emotions: fear, desire, shame, guilt, and unconscious phantasies and defensive reactions.

This webinar will explore how psychoanalytic and system psychodynamic ideas—such as the unconscious, projection, mirroring, and transference—can shed light on our contemporary encounters with AI. We will consider how AI shapes experiences of trust, authenticity, authority, and disempowerment at both individual and systemic levels and what leaders might consider moving forward. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own responses, as well as those of their organizations, to the profound technological changes underway.