Can AI Help Prevent Toxic Relationships and Gender-Based Violence? Lessons from Finland and Brazil

Can AI Help Prevent Toxic Relationships and Gender-Based Violence? Lessons from Finland and Brazil

Around the world, millions of women experience toxic relationships, emotional manipulation, coercive control, and intimate partner violence. Yet many warning signs remain difficult to identify, especially in the early stages of a relationship.

Can artificial intelligence help make these patterns more visible before harm escalates?

In this event, we will explore how digital tools can support women in recognizing unhealthy relationship dynamics, identifying recurring behavioral patterns, strengthening personal boundaries, and making more informed decisions about their emotional wellbeing.

The discussion will feature the work of Safety in Relationships Oy, a Finnish social impact company developing practical digital reflection tools such as Flag Tracker and Get Closure. These tools are designed to help users reflect on relationship experiences, identify red and green flags, process difficult breakups, and better understand recurring patterns in their personal lives.

We will also discuss the experiences of Finland and Brazil, two countries with very different social and cultural contexts, and examine how technology, civil society, and public policy can work together to prevent violence, promote relationship safety, and empower individuals.

Speakers:

Kaisa Vaittinen is a Finnish founder, CEO, and builder working at the intersection of behavioral intelligence, AI-enabled systems, and social change. As founder and CEO of Safety in Relationships Oy Ltd, she develops research-based digital tools for recognizing, reducing, and preventing intimate partner violence and other forms of relational harm. Speaking openly as a victim-survivor, she brings both lived experience and a rigorous, evidence-based approach to her work. Her products Flag Tracker and GetClosure help users identify behavioral red and green flags, follow how relationships change over time, set personal boundaries, and regain agency before harm escalates. She is also the founder and CEO of evaluoi.ai Oy Ltd, an impact intelligence platform for verifying real change. In June 2026 she spoke at the NO MORE Foundation and UN Women Global Summit on Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence. Her approach is privacy-conscious, evidence-based, and built to make the invisible visible.

Priscila Canaan is a technology specialist, innovation strategist, and the Brazilian representative of The AI Collective's Belém Amazon Chapter. Her work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, social impact, econology, and the advancement of women in technology and innovation.

With more than 18 years of professional experience, she has built a multidisciplinary career connecting communication, technology, business strategy, and digital transformation. Throughout her journey, she has developed a broad and systemic perspective on contemporary challenges, working across fields such as digital marketing, journalism, compliance, data protection, social impact ventures, and startup ecosystems.

Currently, as a CRM Analyst at Grupo Mônaco, she develops data-driven and technology-enabled strategies to strengthen customer engagement, combining analytical rigor, digital tools, and creativity to deliver meaningful business results.

Passionate about the transformative potential of technology, Priscila is committed to promoting the responsible use of artificial intelligence and building bridges between innovation, sustainable development, and inclusion. She believes that the most pressing challenges of our time require interdisciplinary thinking, collaboration, and a continuous capacity for adaptation and reinvention.

Moderator & Series Curator

Ana Catarina de Alencar

International Lawyer, Ethicist, and Resident Philosopher at The AI Collective

Ana Catarina de Alencar is an international lawyer and ethicist based in Paris whose work explores the societal impacts of emotionally responsive technologies and AI systems. She is a PhD researcher at the Université de Lille, where she investigates emotional AI, human autonomy, and digital well-being through an interdisciplinary lens combining law, ethics, philosophy, and neurobiology. She currently serves as Resident Philosopher at The AI Collective, where she curates and moderates conversations on AI, society, and human flourishing.

Date: October 14, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM Paris | 7:00 PM Finland | 5:00 PM London | 9:00 AM San Francisco | 1:00 PM Brazil (BRT)
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