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,...
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...
United Nations Ambassador Kah, Visiting Scholar at the AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University, chaired the twelfth session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 28 or 29 October 2025 for a conversation on the intersection of intellectual property and frontier technologies. Please watch the webcast. He explored the legal...
The Honors College, Digital Studies Center, and Political Science and Philosophy & Religion departments present Dr. Nathan C. Walker’s guest lecture on his research on AI Principles & U.S. Presidents, as part of the Introduction to Digital Politics class with Professor Tim Knievel. Tuesday, October 28, 2025 • 4:00 pm to...
Assistant Professor Joanne Dera, Rutgers Science Librarian and AI Ethics Lab Contributor, served as a panelist on the topic of People Power: Human Connection in the Age of AI as part of the New Jersey Association of School Board Administrators’ 2025 Workshop. Moderated by Michael Leaser, Executive Director of Princeton Review,...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker and Laura Collins co-presented a workshop on responsible use of AI for the Rutgers University Innovation Series. Sponsored by the Office of Scholar Development and Fellowship Advising, this event helped students navigate the mixed messages that they receive about the promise and perils of using AI in...
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...
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...
How can local actors shape the global conversation on artificial intelligence, Dr. Nathan C. Walker asked when moderating this event at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hosted by All Tech is Human (ATIHx) Philadelphia, this informal gathering invites colleagues to discuss how we can collectively affect, inform, and improve...
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...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker participated in a Roundtable Discussion organized by Globethics in collaboration with the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI (IASEAI), the Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University (I-AIIG), focused on AI Global Safety: Mitigating Catastrophic Risks. Alongside the AI for Good Summit 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland,...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker served on a panel at the 2025 Switchboard Confluence for the International Resource Committee about how to build self-sufficiency with AI. Resettlement providers handle a variety of daily tasks, including documenting cases in multiple languages, matching clients with limited housing options, analyzing program data, and coordinating time-sensitive...
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...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker led a workshop for polling experts, focusing on the practical and ethical considerations of integrating generative AI into polling research published by the Public Religion Research Institute, where he serves as Board Chair. The workshop asked, Should researchers integrate AI into their polling research workflow? If not,...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker served on a panel at Utah Tech Week as part of the statewide program on Civic Virtue on the AI Frontier. The panel explored AI’s impact on business, law, government, and academia and discussed the balance of considering AI’s potential impact on communities while also pursuing innovation....
Sponsored by the Rutgers Honors College, Dr. Nathan C. Walker offered a workshop for honors students to think about responsible uses of artificial intelligence. After all, AI has dramatically transformed, for better or worse, nearly every sector of society. Education, in particular, is struggling to redefine itself in the age of...