Fellow's Profile
Jacob Ohrvik-Stott
Fellow's Profile
Jacob Ohrvik-Stott
Strengthening UK policy and laws for preventing harmful AI companionships
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Using Policy and Law to Prevent Harmful AI Companionship
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Locality
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London
Contact
Biography
I'm Head of AI Security Policy at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
My Fellowship will explore how policy and law can be used to prevent increasingly prevalent harmful 'AI companionship' - where people develop problematic emotional bonds with conversational AI services, often at the cost of their mental health, relationships, and financial savings, and sometimes even their lives.
I'm excited to explore how governments across the USA, Australia, Europe and Brazil are acting to tackle these issues. I'll see if and how their approaches can translate to the UK, in the form of stronger AI safety laws, expert partnerships, or initiatives to support to victims.
Disclaimer
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
