News & Highlights

(Updated Aug 2025)

KAIA 2025 — Affective Sovereignty Declaration

Title: Emotion is Mine: Ethical Design Principles for Affective Sovereignty in Predictive AI

Status: Accepted & published in the KAIA 2025 proceedings (Pyeongchang, Korea).

Summary: Ryan Research Institute introduced the first formal concept of Affective Sovereignty at KAIA 2025 and identified Uniqueness Violation as a core ethical risk in Emotion AI. The paper proposes actionable design principles including Interpretive Transparency, Design Restraint, Identity-Responsive Feedback, and Diversity Acceptance.

Conference Archive (assets)

Under Review — Affective Suppression Fatigue (ASF)

Title: Affective Suppression Fatigue: A Neurocognitive Framework for Emotional Numbing and Reactive Dysregulation

Status: Under peer review.

Summary: This study proposes a 4-stage threshold-collapse model showing how chronic suppression leads to emotional numbing and reactive dysregulation; differentiates ASF from burnout/ego-depletion and outlines clinical implications.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3jtca_v1

Under Review — Emotion is Mine (Affective Sovereignty in Predictive AI)

Title: Emotion is Mine: Ethical Design Principles for Affective Sovereignty in Predictive AI

Status: Under peer review.

Summary: An ethical framework asserting the human right to interpret one’s own emotions in the age of predictive AI. Introduces “Uniqueness Violation” and a 4-principle design module for emotion-aware systems.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nq9sx

Under Consideration — Defensive Motivational Nodes (DMN)

Title: Defensive Motivational Nodes (DMN): Inferring Psychological States from Language via Defense Mechanisms and Affective Motivation

Status: Under consideration.

Summary: This framework pairs one defense mechanism with one affective motivation per utterance. It includes a 10×8 taxonomy, annotation manual, and a quadri-lingual synthetic corpus of 300 utterances, enabling nuanced and empathetic AI language outputs.

Dataset & Manual: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16270148

Under Review — Affective Sovereignty: A Minimal Declaration

Title: Affective Sovereignty: A Minimal Declaration on Emotional Interpretation Rights in the Age of Algorithmic Power — When AI Interprets My Emotions Before I Do, Can I Still Call Them My Own?

Status: Under peer review.

Summary: A philosophical–ethical statement defining the right to interpret one’s own emotions in the age of AI. Frames Affective Sovereignty as a minimal declaration against algorithmic overreach, with implications for global AI ethics and human dignity.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15449776