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The Consent Vacuum presented at IAIL 2026 in Brussels

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Osman Gazi Güçlütürk (Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law) and I presented 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.

The Consent Vacuum: When Agents Interact Without Humans

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Existing consent frameworks assume a human who authorises an action in a context they can see. This paper asks what happens to a user’s authorisation once their AI agent stops talking to humans and interacts primarily with other agents. Using the early-2026 Clawdbot/Moltbook incidents as a stress test, it argues that consent degrades as an operative governance mechanism once it travels through open-ended agent-to-agent chains, a condition the paper calls the consent vacuum: not the absence of consent, but the structural erosion of the conditions that make it meaningful.

The paper contributes a taxonomy of six consent-failure types; a distinction between visibility, auditability and intervenability as oversight capacities relevant to Article 14 of the EU AI Act; and a mapping onto the GDPR, the AI Act and the Digital Services Act, with the DSA systemic-risk regime offered as a structural template for governing emergent agent ecosystems.

IAIL 2026 was held in Brussels on 7 July 2026. Co-authored with Osman Gazi Güçlütürk (Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law).

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Consent Chain Degradation in Embodied Multi-Agent Systems: Bridging the Gap Between AI Agent Governance and Robot Ethics

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduces consent chain degradation: the way the specificity, validity and scope of human consent weaken as authority passes through chains of delegation among embodied agents. The paper proposes CoRVE, a three-layer runtime architecture for consent scope modelling, delegation tracking and physical irreversibility assessment, illustrates the problem with healthcare, domestic and industrial scenarios (including a worked numerical example), and maps the gaps left by the EU AI Act, the GDPR, the Machinery Regulation and the revised Product Liability Directive.

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Workshop papers at ICRA 2026 and CVPR 2026

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Two workshop papers appeared in June 2026:

, ICRA 2026 Workshop on Robot Ethics (WoRoBet), presented in Vienna. Preprint: .
, CVPR 2026 Workshop on Autonomous Driving (WAD). Preprint: .

From Chat to Agent at the CHI 2026 workshop on consent

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

was presented at the ACM CHI 2026 workshop Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI.

From Chat to Agent: Why Consent Breaks When AI Acts on Your Behalf

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A position paper on why consent mechanisms designed for conversational systems fail once AI moves from answering to acting on a user’s behalf. It identifies design tensions in agentic consent and offers provocations for rethinking user control.

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Ajan Toplumlarında Rızanın Çöküşü: Clawdbot/Moltbook Vakası Üzerinden Sosyoteknik Bir Analiz

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

English title: The Collapse of Consent in Agent Societies: A Sociotechnical Analysis of the Clawdbot/Moltbook Case

English summary. The article examines how consent mechanisms break down in ecosystems where autonomous AI agents interact with one another. Taking the early-2026 Clawdbot/Moltbook case as a paradigmatic case, and drawing on Jasanoff’s co-production, Latour’s actor-network theory and Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity, it identifies six consent fragilities specific to agent ecosystems and argues that as interaction chains lengthen, consent approaches zero.

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Who Is Accountable When the Agent Speaks? Toward Accountability Graphs for Conversational AI Chains

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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AI content detection in the emerging information ecosystem: new obligations for media and tech companies

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Examines how new regulatory instruments, including the EU AI Act, create binding obligations for AI providers to mark and detect AI-generated content, and what these obligations mean for media and technology companies in the emerging information ecosystem.

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Unfairness of Deep Learning Methods Arising Gender Bias in Covid-19 Diagnosis of Medical Images

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Also presented at the II. International Artificial Intelligence in Health Congress (SYZ 2021), İzmir.

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