Dr Kate Devlin | Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

Dr Kate Devlin is Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.

With an undergraduate degree in archaeology and an MSc and PhD in computer science, her research investigates how people interact with and react to technologies, both past and future. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots (Bloomsbury, 2018), which examines the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy. Kate is currently Advocacy and Engagement director for the UK’s Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub – a collaborative platform to enable the development of socially beneficial robotics and AI systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice. She is a board member of the Open Rights Group, a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms, and is a campaigner for gender equality to improve opportunities for women in tech. In 2022, Kate was appointed as a patron of Humanists UK for her contribution to the greater public understanding of science.