Publications

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PUBLICATIONS

Single-authored manuscripts

Current  Sex Robots: The End of Love (contracted Polity)

2018     Challenging Sociality: An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment. Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI, New York, Palgrave-MacMillan. 

2015     An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. Routledge, New York and London. 

Edited-volumes

2023     Manmade Woman.  Richardson K and Odlind, C (eds). Social and Cultural Studies of Robots & AI, Palgrave and MacMillan.

2017     Editorial “I”Robot? Rethinking the I-You Relation through Dialogical Philosophy in the Ethics of AI and Robotics (AI & Society Special Issue) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-017-0699-2

2017     The Human Relationship in the Ethics of Relational Robotics: A Call to Martin Buber’s I and Thou in “I”Robot? Rethinking the I-You Relation through Dialogical Philosophy in the Ethics of AI and Robotics (AI & Society Special Issue). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-017-0699-2

Journals

2022     Aristotle’s ‘slave’ ontology: robots and AI and its radical rejection’ in Kapferer, Bruce (ed) Anthropology and Technology, Berghahn Press.

2021     Anthropology and robots, Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, Oxford University Press.

2019     The Business of Ethics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence’ in Cyborg Future: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial

Intelligence and Robotics (ed. Teresa Heffernan), Palgrave-Macmillan.

2018     ‘Robot Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM): A Social Model of Autism’  Richardson, K., Coeckelbergh, M., Wakunuma, K., Billing, E., Ziemke, T., Gomez, P., Vanderborght, B. and Belpaeme, T., IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 37(1), pp.30-39.

2016     Property relations – Is property a person? Extending the Rights of Property Owners Through the Rights of Robotic Machines in AAAI press e-proceedings for Machine Ethics and Machine Law:  Interdisciplinary perspectives on moral and legal issues in artificial agents, Nov 2016.

2016     Are Sex Robots as Bad as Killing Robots? In Seibt, J., Nørskov, M., Schack Andersen, S. (eds). What Social robots Can and Should Do, 290 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press. pp. 27 – 31.

2016     The Robot Intermediary: Mechanical analogies and autism. Anthropology Today. Vol 32, No 5. pp. 18-20.

2016     Sex Robot Matters: Slavery, the Prostituted, and the Rights of Machines. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine35(2), pp.46-53.

2016     Technological Animism: The Uncanny Personhood of Humanoid Machines In Social Analysis Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard (eds). Special Issue on Animism: The Animistic Turn. Social Analysis, 60(1), pp.110-128.

2015     The Asymmetrical ‘Relationship’: Parallels Between Prostitution and the Development of Sex Robots. Published on the ACM Digital Library as a special issue of the ACM SIGCAS newsletter. SIGCAS Computers & Society, Sept 2015, Vol. 45, No. 3 290-293.

2011     Robots to the rescue? Engineering & Technology,6(4), pp.52-54.

2010     Disabling as Mimesis and Alterity: Making Humanoid Robots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” Etnofoor, September 2010, volume 22, issue 1, 2010, pp. 75-90.

2009     Rebranding the robot. Engineering & Technology4(6), pp.42-44.

2009     Richardson, Kathleen and Sue Hessey. 2009. ‘Archiving the Self? Facebook as biography of social and relational memory’. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society. 2009 V 7. 1. pp. 25 – 38.

2002     Communicating Environmentalism in Amazonia In C. Gandelsonas, (ed). Communicating Development. London: Intermediate Technology Publishing.