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 16th April.
2019 Creative Innovation, Melbourne, Australia, 30-3rd April 2019. https://www.creativeinnovationglobal.com.au/ci2019/speakers/professor-kathleen-richardson/
2019 Invited Talk, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 28th March 2019.
2019 Invited Talk on International Women’s Day, York University 7thMarch
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. 1st Nov
2018 Keynote: ACM: Women in Computing Annual Event, Serbia, Belgrade 2-4th 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. 21 Feb.
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 (17-21 Sep).
2016 Keynote: Humans and Robots: Trieste Next – European Science Research Forum Trieste, Italy 23-25 Sep.
2015 Invited: ‘The Ethics of Therapeutic Robots for Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions’ Human-Robot Interaction Summer School, Finland 29 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 18 Mar.
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.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (selected)
2022 Invited speaker, Prostitution: pleasure for men, pain for women. Nordic Model Now, Nottingham 25 Jun.
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 Mar .
2017 Annihilation Anxiety: does AI spell trouble? New Scientist’s Instant Expert days 18 Feb.
2017 Artificial Intelligence & the Singularity, Southbank Centre 4 Feb.
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 Dec.
2016 VivaTechnology, Working with robots: to whom will it benefit? with Innorobo, Catherine Simon; SoftBank Robotics, Rodolphe Gelin, Chief Scientific Officer; Balyo, Fabien Bardinet 30 Jun.
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 Jun.
2016 TEDxTalk ULB STAYING HUMAN ‘Money Can’t Buy You Love: Sex Robots & the instrumentalisation of Human Intimacy’ Brussels 4 May.
2015 Expert Guest, Feature on the anthropomorphism and gendering of space robots Philae and Rosetta (Newsnight BBC2) 15 Jun.
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 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 Apr.
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, 6 May.
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 Apr.
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 10 Dec.
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