Artificial intelligence is impacting every sector of society, including medicine, in both innovative and disruptive ways. As part of the Society for Liaison Psychiatry Fellows’ Day on January 6, 2026, Dr. Nathan C. Walker will explore case studies examining AI’s impact on psychiatrists’ work throughout their careers, from medical education to...
On December 12, 2025, Dr. Nathan C. Walker will give an invited talk titled “Ethical AI for Future Developers” to seniors at South Brunswick High School in New Jersey. The interactive training prepares STEM students to inspire an ethical odyssey in the technology industry by engaging in an ethics-mapping exercise across...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker will facilitate a day-long workshop for the Madison & Lila Self Graduate Fellows at the University of Kansas. The pre-program includes six hours of online engagement with curated resources, as well as an in-person interactive workshop on January 12, 2026, with 50 graduate students from a variety...
On January 13, 2026, Dr. Nathan C. Walker will give a second keynote presentation at the University of Kansas, this time for university-wide graduate and postdoctoral fellows, on the ethical implications of applying AI systems across academic disciplines and societal sectors. Dr. Nathan Walker’s keynote will introduce moral imagination as a...
On January 11, 2025, Dr. Nathan C. Walker will lead a professional development program that explores best practices for integrating artificial intelligence into legal research and advocacy, which has raised complex questions about authorship, accuracy, bias, and consent. In this collegial conversation led by First Amendment educator Dr. Nathan C. Walker,...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how nonprofits communicate, conduct research, and manage their diverse teams. As part of a collegial conversation series, Dr. Nathan C. Walker facilitated an interactive workshop for staff of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. Together, they asked, what is AI, and what are the ethical and...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker will represent Rutgers University at the 2025 International Future AI Summit in London and deliver the talk “AI Ethics: From Smart to Wise Technology.” The event is hosted by Telescope AI, in strategic partnership with BAU Global, AWS, Intel, Telescope, Skyloop, and Future Campus. The summit offers...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker gave an invited talk on Ethical Decision-Making for Communicators to graduate students enrolled in Columbia University School of Professional Studies’ M.S. Strategic Communication program. In Roberto Lara Aranda’s Ethical Decision-Making for Communicators class, students welcomed the Rev. Dr. Nathan C. Walker, public ethicist, author, Executive Director of...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker presented his research on “AI Principles and U.S. Presidents” at a faculty workshop during the 2025 Ethics Awareness Week at Utah Valley University. The event was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics and the Applied AI Institute. His research analyzed the core ethical positions...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker led a workshop for Adobe employees on training AI models with rights, sponsored by the Visible Hand Project at the Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University. AI models are advancing rapidly, requiring developers to apply responsible technology practices to protect consumers, especially the most vulnerable...
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 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...
Is “smart” technology the ultimate goal, asked Dr. Nathan C. Walker, when giving a keynote presentation at the annual Switchboard Confluence for the International Rescue Committee? Can we design and deploy artificial intelligence in ways that move us from “smart” to “wise” technology? If so, how can we measure this shift...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker presented a guest lecture on “Smart to Wise Cities” for the undergraduate course, Generative AI for Social Science, taught by Assistant Professor Junghwan Kim. The public lecture was part of the Smart Cities for Good program at Virginia Tech. The course explored the potential applications of emerging...