KEYNOTES AND INVITED TALKS

2023 Safety for women in the digital age. UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), hosted by Unizon (Swedish women’s                   organisation). 17.3.23

2023  The Unexpected Talks on Humans and AI. host Pamela Breda, Angewandte University, Vienna. 15.3.2023

2022     Keynote, International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards, 18-19 July, Seoul, Korea

2022     Invited speaker, End of Love, Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, Oxford University, Oxford 30 May.

2022     Invited Panel Chair, Plenary: Misogynistic Algorithms, Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society (online) 6-10th June

2022     Closing Plenary, Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society (online) 6-10th June

2022     Invited presentation, Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society (online) 6-10th June

2022     Invited roundtable participant,  Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society (virtual conference) 6-10th June

2022     Invited presentation, Spiritual Silicon – could robots one day have souls? (online) Theos Thinktank, Cambridge (virtual) 24 May.

2022     Invited Roundtable, The Science and Science Fiction of AI (online), School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Daejeon, South Korea. 17 May

2022     Invited Seminar, The Science and Science Fiction of AI (online), School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Daejeon, South Korea. 5 April.

2019     Keynote, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, Falmouth 16^th April.

2019     Creative Innovation, Melbourne, Australia, 30-3^rd April 2019.  https://www.creativeinnovationglobal.com.au/ci2019/speakers/professor-kathleen-richardson/

2019     Invited Talk, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 28^th March 2019.

2019     Invited Talk on International Women’s Day, York University 7^th March

2018     Keynote Australian Anthropological Society, Cairns, Australia

2018     Keynote University of South Wales, Australia

2018     Invited speaker, AI: Threat or Opportunity? Institute of Directors, Cambridge. 1^st Nov

2018     Keynote: ACM: Women in Computing Annual Event, Serbia, Belgrade 2-4^th Oct.

2018     Opening Address: AI in the Age of Intimacy, Slovenia,

2018     Invited Talk, Science and Human Dimensions Project, Jesus College, Cambridge 26-28 Sep.

2017     Invited: Are we ready for robot relationships? Part of the British Academy Season on talks on Robots, AI and Society, De Montfort University. February 21 2017.

2016     Invited Talk ‘Property relations – Is property a person?’ Machine Ethics and Machine Law: Interdisciplinary perspectives on moral and legal issues in artificial agents, 17-19 November 2016, Krakow, Poland

2016     Keynote: International Research Conference Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016: What Social Robots Can a     nd Should Do. Aahaus, Denmark (17-21st Sep).

2016     Keynote: Humans and Robots: Trieste Next – European Science Research Forum Trieste, Italy (23-25 Sep)

2015     Invited: ‘Relational Subjectivity and Robots’ Aaahaus University, Copenhagen, Denmark (25 Nov).

2015     Invited: ‘The Ethics of Therapeutic Robots for Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions’ Human-Robot Interaction Summer School, Finland (29th Aug).

2015     Invited: “An Attachment Crisis: Gender, Intimate Relationships and Companion Robots” Program for Future Technologies, Culture and Learning, Aarhus University (25 Nov).

2014     Invited: ‘Mimesis and Robotics” as part of Aboagora Symposium, Turku, Finland, (14 Aug). 2012 Invited: ‘Challenging robotic appearances: to skin or not to skin?” UCL, V&A, RCA (13 Feb).

2011     Panel Convenor and Chair: ASA, Imagining Disabilities in Multiple Agents. Wales (16 Sep).

2011     Invited: ‘Challenging Sociality? Robots and Autism’ Guest Science,Technology & Society, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (14 Nov).

2009     Invited: “Does metal matter? Relating to things as persons; sociable robots and the making of

            robot companions’ New Materials & Technologies:Innovation,Future and Society, UCL (Sept)

2008     Keynote Paper: ‘Archiving the Self: Facebook as Biography and Social Memory’ Digital

Culture: New Forms of Living and Organizing? Informatics Research Institute, University of Salford (17 Jun)

2006     Invited ‘The fact and fiction of robots’ The Thinking Machine, University of Cambridge (Mar 18) 2006      Invited: ‘Can a human have a relationship with a machine?” AISB 2006: Adaptation in Artificial

and Biological Systems, Machine Consciousness Symposia, Bristol (5 Apr 2006).

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (selected)

2022     Invited speaker, Prostitution: pleasure for men, pain for women. Nordic Model Now, Nottingham 25 June.

2022     Invited speaker, Leicester Secular Society. 29 May.

2022     Invited speaker, Robot-Love in a post-pandemic world. Discussion with the Artist Duo Hochschuh & Donovan. (online) House of Electronic Arts, Basel, CH. 17 Feb

2017     Invited Talk ‘Property as Persons: AI and Robots’ Animal Life, Social Robots, and Cyborg Futures, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada, 31-3 March 2017.

2017     Annihilation Anxiety: does AI spell trouble? New Scientist’s Instant Expert days (18 Feb 2017). 2017 Artificial Intelligence & the Singularity, Southbank Centre (4 Feb 2017)

2017     Sex and Love with Robots – part of the British Academy Series on Robots, AI and Society

2016     Invited Talk ‘Robots versus humanity’ robotics panel organized by EU funded CHIRON project,

1st December 2016

2016     Invited Talk ‘Robot Ethics’ Café Scientific, Leeds, (13 Sep)

2016     VivaTechnology, Working with robots: to whom will it benefit? with Innorobo, Catherine Simon;

SoftBank Robotics, Rodolphe Gelin, Chief Scientific Officer; Balyo, Fabien Bardinet (June 30)

2016     Southbank Centre, The Future of the Sex: Prostitution, Porn and the Rise of Sex Robots (8 Oct)

2016     Ideacity TALK Sex with Robots (Talk and Debate) with David Levy Toronto, (15-18 June 2016)

2016     TEDxTalk ULB STAYING HUMAN ‘Money Can’t Buy You Love: Sex Robots & the

instrumentalisation of Human Intimacy’ Brussels (May 4th)

2015     Expert Guest, Feature on the anthropomorphism and gendering of space robots Philae and Rosetta (Newsnight BBC2) (15 Jun 2015).

2014     Expert Guest: AI as a threat to humanity (Newsnight, BBC2) with Nick Bostrom (Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford) with Evan Davis (2 Dec 2014).

2014     Expert Panellist: Hierarchy at Work (In the Balance, BBC World Service) with Ed Butler (host) and Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer for Microsoft UK, Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School (19 April 2014). 

2014     Panellist: Killer Robots: Ethics in the age of co-robotics (The Current Radio Show, Canada) with Anna Maria Tremonti (host) and Ian Kerr holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology at the University of Ottawa and  Daniel H. Wilson, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics expert and author of the New York Times best-selling Robopocalypse.(May 6 2014).

2014     Panellist: Hierarchy at Work (In the Balance, BBC World Service) with Ed Butler (host) and Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer for Microsoft UK and Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School (19 April 2014).

• Panellist: Robots and US (In the Balance, BBC World Service) with Manuela Saragosa (host) and Professor Jeremy Wyatt of Birmingham University, Dr and Geoff Pegman of R. U. Robots.
• Interview: Robot Ethics Thoughts with on Sky News with Stephen Dixon and Gillian Joseph (hosts) (26 Oct)

2012     Guest Lecture: London Science Museum Public Engagement Talk “The Rise of Robot Children” organised by

the London Science Museum (Dec 10).

MEDIA ENGAGEMENT (SELECTED)

2019  The Telegraph ‘could you fall in love with a robot?

2019  The Telegraph, ‘the sex robot manufacturers trying to hit the mainstream’.

2018 Forbes Meet the Activists Fighting Sex Robots

2018 Sydney Morning Herald ‘There are no rules: the unforeseen consequences of sex robots’.

2018 New Stateman, ‘Why attempts to make sex robots “family friendly” deserve to fail.

2018 Washington Examiner ‘calls mount for regulation of sex robots’

2017 Prospect Magazine, Our obsession with sex robots degrades us all!

2017 New Scientist, How to build better sex robots? Stop making them look human

2017 Time, It’s Valentine’s Day! Should you have sex with a robot?

2016 Telegraph, Forget Westworld: there’s a real life Campaign Against Sex Robots – and we met its leader

2016 ABC, Australia Panel Kathleen Richardson and Kate Devlin

2016 Sky News, Can ‘Sex Robots’ Replace Relationships With Human Beings?

2016 FT, Prospect of sexual relationships with robots poses moral dilemmas.

2016 Jezebel, Are Sex Robots Unethical or Just Unimaginative as Hell?

2016 The Telegraph, Man makes robot which looks like Scarlett Johansson – why do we keep making

creepy female bots?

2016 WIRED, Humans get ‘aroused’ when touching robot buttocks

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Für mehr Erfolg müssen Sexroboter die weibliche Zielgruppe ansprechen

2016 MILK, The ethical crisis behind the rise of sexbots

YAHOO!,What Do These Robots Mean For The Future Of Sex?

2016 ASIA, NIKKEI, Is it OK to abuse, trust or make love to a robot?

2015 Fresnobee, Is the world ready for sex robots and mechanical soldiers?

2015 BBC NEWS Technology Intelligent machines: Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys 2015 Washington Post Having sex with robots is really, really bad, Campaign Against Sex Robots says robot ethicist

2015 NBC News Campaign Launched against Sex robots

MAJOR PROJECTS 

2006 The Cambridge Robot Project (15-28th May), Cambridge, UK. Organised while a doctoral student at Cambridge University.