Porthtowan TEDx Speaker on Using AI to Detect Coercive Control
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Most people have been told at some point that they’re being too sensitive, or reading too much into things. A speaker at Porthtowan’s first TEDx event reckons artificial intelligence could give them a way to show they were right all along.
A first for Porthtowan
The talk came at TEDxPorthtowan Women, billed as the village’s first event of its kind, held to mark International Women’s Day on 8th March under the theme Breaking the Mould: Every Generation Empowered. Twelve speakers were chosen from 150 applicants.
Among them was Dr Lisa Turner, described as an award-winning coach and forensic AI pioneer, who spoke about where artificial intelligence and human behaviour meet.
The case Lisa made
Lisa’s argument centres on a kind of harm that, by design, is hard to pin down. Gaslighting, coercive control and manipulation work, she says, precisely because they are deniable, subjective and hard to see, which can leave people, and women in particular, stuck in situations where their experience is dismissed.
She pointed to figures to back the scale of it. Research, she said, shows that 97% of cases that escalate to physical violence were preceded by psychological abuse, while psychological abuse remains the hardest form of harm to prove. In the UK, she added, there are 58 reported offences of coercive control for every single conviction.
The workplace came up too. Lisa cited research by Kusy and Holloway across more than 400 organisations, which found that a single toxic person can debilitate individuals, teams and whole organisations, and that the effects linger long after that person has gone.
Among them was Dr Lisa Turner, described as an award-winning coach and forensic AI pioneer, who spoke about where artificial intelligence and human behaviour meet.
The case Lisa made
Lisa’s argument centres on a kind of harm that, by design, is hard to pin down. Gaslighting, coercive control and manipulation work, she says, precisely because they are deniable, subjective and hard to see, which can leave people, and women in particular, stuck in situations where their experience is dismissed.
She pointed to figures to back the scale of it. Research, she said, shows that 97% of cases that escalate to physical violence were preceded by psychological abuse, while psychological abuse remains the hardest form of harm to prove. In the UK, she added, there are 58 reported offences of coercive control for every single conviction.
The workplace came up too. Lisa cited research by Kusy and Holloway across more than 400 organisations, which found that a single toxic person can debilitate individuals, teams and whole organisations, and that the effects linger long after that person has gone.
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