EMERGE 2025: Dialogues with AI invites us to explore the evolving conversation between humans and intelligent machines. It looks at how AI is reshaping communication, creativity, and social life — from the ways we produce and share information to how we understand language, emotion, and intent.  

The program highlights AI’s growing role in the media, exposing both its transformative potential for storytelling and its risks to truth, editorial integrity, and public trust. Discussions will also address how data-driven AI systems influence creative discovery and decision-making, how large language models displace human intentionality and reshape the meaning of discourse, and how AI’s expanding capabilities raise urgent questions about privacy, data protection, and legal accountability. Together, these dialogues reveal both the promise and the precarity of a world increasingly mediated by intelligent systems. 

Ultimately, EMERGE 2025 asks a central question: How can we ensure that the dialogue between humans and machines remains grounded in justice, dignity, and human values? Through public talks, critical debates, and shared insights, the forum aims to bridge disciplines and encourage new alliances for a more ethical and inclusive technological future. 

You can find more info here: emerge.ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Program

17:00 – 17:10 Opening address 

Gazela Pudar Draško 

Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade 

17:10 – 17:40 Privacy in GenAI: Instead of Your Consent, I ask for Your Forgiveness 

Ana Toskić Cvetinović, Executive Director at Partners for Democratic Change, Serbia 

17:40 – 18:10 The Vanishing Aura: AI Agents, Data Driven Decisions, and the Erosion of  

Creative Discovery 

Ivana Uspenski 

Head of Insights and Channel Planning, Hearts & Science Düsseldorf, Germany 

18:10 – 18:40   Newsroom Futures: The Risks of Unguided AI in Media 

Tanja Maksić 

Project Coordinator, Researcher at BIRN – Balkan Investigative Reporting  

Network, Serbia 

18:40 – 18:55 Coffee break 

19:00 – 19:30 Towards the Era of Small Giants: How AI Enabled a 7 Figure Turnover for a Research Consultancy 

Mihajlo Popesku 

Marketing Scientist & Founder, Latenta, London, UK 

19:30 – 20:00 When Machines Talk: AI, Language, and the Loss of Human Intent 

Vanja Subotić 

Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, University of Belgrade  

20:00 – 21:00 Cocktail