The Consent Vacuum presented at IAIL 2026 in Brussels
Osman Gazi Güçlütürk (Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law) and I presented The Consent Vacuum: When Agents Interact Without Humans at IAIL 2026, the 5th International Workshop on Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act, co-located with HHAI 2026 in Brussels on 7 July 2026.
The paper uses the early-2026 Clawdbot/Moltbook incidents as a stress test for consent in open-ended agent-to-agent ecosystems and maps the resulting consent failures onto the GDPR, the EU AI Act and the Digital Services Act.
Dr. Mehmet Haklıdır is the founding Director of the TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Artificial Intelligence Institute, Türkiye’s first national AI institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Control and Automation Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and has more than 24 years of experience in AI, autonomous systems, big data, simulation, and technology policy.
He contributed to Türkiye’s first National AI Strategy and led the technical preparation and coordination of the National Artificial Intelligence Action Plan 2026–2030, finalized through consultation with the national AI ecosystem. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Science, Technology and Innovation Policies Council of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye and is a member of several international AI governance initiatives, including OECD ONE AI, GPAI, UNESCO AI Ethics, NATO DAIRB, and the European AI Alliance.
His current research focuses on large language models, AI safety with an emphasis on agentic AI systems, deep reinforcement learning, robotics, and autonomous decision-making under uncertainty.