Dr. Nathan C. Walker was honored to serve as a facilitator of the governance working group at the AI Ethics-to-Industry symposium at Google San Francisco, co-organized by Google Research and the University of Florida’s Renwick Program for Ethical, Safe, and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence. The symposium brought together leading researchers from industry...
Amisha Rastogi, Research Assistant at the AI Ethics Lab, had the incredible opportunity to attend the STEM in Government Conference as a Governor’s STEM Scholar (GSS) Team Lead. The GSS Class of 2026 is comprised of 101 high school and college students from 19 New Jersey counties, each dedicated to exploring...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker moderated a panel discussion on the Needs and Contributions of the Global Majority to Global AI Governance, as part of a North–South Policy Dialogue on the proposed UN Convention on AI, Data and Human Rights, hosted by the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker served on a panel on Sectoral Impacts of AI on Human Rights as part of the North-South Policy Dialogue on a proposed UN Convention on AI, Data, and Human Rights. Chaired by Dr. Gray Manicom of Stellenbosch University, additional panelists included Minister Mireille Wenger (Western Cape), Sophia...
In this solo talk at Ai4, North America’s largest artificial intelligence industry event, Dr. Nathan C. Walker addressed the fact that AI decision-making can separate the people who build systems from those affected by them. This separation can be physical, psychological, or procedural, he explained. Physical distance appears in the environmental...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker moderated a Fireside Chat with Erin Reddick, founder and CEO of ChatBlackGPT. As part of the 2025 Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, they discussed the significance of designing culturally responsive AI models. They discussed the purpose and impact Erin is having when deploying a model rooted in...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker joined the All Tech is Human convening at the Royal Society, a curated gathering for 250 individuals across civil society, industry, and academia focused on tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest. Participants focused on generative AI, online...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker attended the Investors for Digital Ethics program, led by TechUK in London, to discuss how shareholders should balance returns and responsibility when investing in AI. They examined how AI is becoming increasingly central to business operations and products, posing a challenge for investors to evaluate the robustness,...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker served on a panel jointly organized by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Tsinghua University, and the Globethics Foundation, as part of the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, on Autonomous Vehicles. Panelists reflected on the ethical implications of autonomous driving from a general AI...