Invited Talk

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 delivered the keynote address for the 2025 Ethics Awareness Week at Utah Valley University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics and the Applied AI Institute. In his talk, Moral Imagination: From Smart to Wise AI, he asked, is “smart” the best we can imagine...

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...