AI is impacting every part of our lives—and we need to start paying more attention.
Watch this eye-opening conversation with Dr. Clare McGlynn, Professor of Law at Durham University, whose work sits at the intersection of AI, image-based sexual abuse, pornography and digital rights.
We discuss:
How AI-generated deepfake pornography poses a serious threat to women and girls
Why "revenge porn" should be called image-based sexual abuse
How mainstream pornography is reshaping relationships
Why empathy is essential for survivors of online sexual violence
If you’re a parent, guardian or educator concerned about the wellbeing of children and youth—you don't want to miss this conversation.
00:00 Preview
01:09 Episode introduction
03:48 About Dr. Clare McGlynn
05:45 Clare’s backstory
08:43 What is “Image-based sexual abuse”?
12:22 How does AI enable image-based sexual abuse—and what are the consequences?
18:46 Clare’s book, Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back
22:56 What happens when pornography becomes sex education?
31:02 The campaign that criminalized AI deepfake pornography in the UK
38:18 AI girlfriends, sex robots, and the future of human relationships
41:39 Why online sexual violence should be treated as a public health crisis
46:14 The role of empathy in justice for survivors of sexual violence
49:41 Dr. Clare McGlynn's Purposeful Empathy story
Episode #10 of Empathy in the Age of AI, a special 25-part series: https://tinyurl.com/exyw2nua
CONNECT WITH CLARE
✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-mcglynn-32b898238/
✩ Website https://www.claremcglynn.com/
✩ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/claremcglynn_/
CONNECT WITH ANITA
✩ Email purposefulempathy@gmail.com
✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com
✩ Buy a copy of Purposeful Empathy http://tiny.cc/PurposefulEmpathyCA
✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/
✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram
✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast
✩ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/anitanowak.bsky.social
CLARE’S WORK
✩ Invisible No More: How AI Chatbots Are Reshaping Violence Against Women and Girls https://e87dab74-be98-4bb1-83c5-05251d2bc6f4.usrfiles.com/ugd/e87dab_06a7f0801de549689c294d42e0478a3c.pdf
✩ Marginalizing feminism: debating extreme pornography laws in public and policy discourse https://tinyurl.com/3vjy5m7d
SHOW NOTES
✩ Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back https://tinyurl.com/2mwt3t39
✩ Why Young Men are Turning Against Feminism https://www.americansurveycenter.org/newsletter/why-young-men-are-turning-against-feminism/
✩ End Violence Against Women https://www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/
Video edited by Jad Misri, Green Horizon Studio
