With a career dedicated to the ethical and legal impact of tech on the world, Kate Darling is a tech speaker and AI expert working as a Research Specialist at MIT. US-born but raised in Switzerland, Kate was educated in Law and Economics at the University of Basel. She went on to teach at Harvard Law, focusing on robotic ethics. A former fellow at Yale and Harvard, Kate is widely sought-after for her social and legal commentary on robotics and artificial intelligence. Recipient of the Mark T Banner Award in Intellectual Property, Kate also has an honorary Doctorate of Sciences awarded from Middlebury College.
Her SDF2016 talk on robotics poses interesting questions about how people react to robots and apply human-centric emotions to AI. She regularly talks about the jobs robots will replace in the future and how they’ll help us with future problems like an ageing population. With several books & papers to her name, Kate has a wealth of expertise to draw from when formulating engaging talks for academic and corporate audiences as a tech speaker. Her mannerisms are easy-going and captivate viewers with anecdotes and interesting stories derived from many years as a robotics lecturer.