Our invited talks and meetings:

23-24 May 2024
We will be organizing a second expert workshop on the ethical/social impacts of AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Czech Academy of Sciences, CETE-P, Prague

8 May 2024
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on outer space cybersecurity at RSA Conference in San Francisco.

19 Jan 2024
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on AI, cybersecurity, and space ethics at USC's Information Sciences Institute in Los Angeles.

30 Nov 2023
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on space technologies and ethics at the TU Munich Think Tank, Munich School of Politics and Public Policy.

10 Nov 2023
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on space ethics/security at the Karel Čapek Center for Values in Science and Technology in Prague.

9 Nov 2023
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on space security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva.

9 Nov 2023
Daniel Story will be giving a talk on the ethics of nonconsensual deepfakes at the Applied Ethics Forum at California State University, Long Beach.

8 Nov 2023
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on technology ethics at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics in Prague.

26 Sept 2023
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on technology ethics at CIGI's new Digital Policy Hub.

13-14 July 2023
We will be organizing an expert workshop at Cal Poly on the ethical/social impacts of AI kitchens and robot cooks.

23 May 2023
Patrick Lin and Keith Abney will be giving a talk on outer space ethics, incl. bioethics, property, and security concerns, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA.

10 May 2023
Ryan Jenkins will be giving a talk on technology ethics for the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Executive Education in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

3 May 2023
Ryan Jenkins will be giving a talk on emerging threats at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

27 April 2023
Ryan Jenkins will give a talk on “Practice Dependence and Emerging Weapons Technologies” at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

30-31 March 2023
We will be organizing an expert workshop on outer space cybersecurity at Stanford University.

7 March 2023
Ryan Jenkins will participate on the panel “Embracing Many Approaches” at the Embedded Ethics Conference on Strategies for Teaching Responsible Computing Within the Computer Science Curriculum, at Stanford University.

23 February 2023
Patrick Lin will be participating in the US National Space Council's meeting of the Users' Advisory Group in Washington DC, followed by a meeting at the White House.

23 February 2023
Ryan Jenkins will organize and chair the panel “Ethics and AI” at the American Philosophical Association's Central Division Meeting in Denver, CO.

7 November 2022
Patrick Lin will be participating in an expert meeting of Schmidt Futures' AI2050 initiative in Portola Valley, CA.

8 September 2022
Ryan Jenkins will give a talk on emerging threats and the future of homeland security at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).

12 August 2022
Ryan Jenkins and Daniel Story will give a talk on the ethics of AI deepfakes at the Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress XV.

9 August 2022
Ryan Jenkins will give a talk on shame and online speech at Dartmouth College's workshop on ethics and information technology.

21 July 2022
Patrick Lin will give a conference panel talk on AI ethics at Santa Clara University.

19 July 2022
Patrick Lin will give a talk on military AI ethics to the US Army War College.

23-24 June 2022
Ryan Jenkins is co-organizing a workshop and will give a talk on AI policing at Northwestern University.

29 April 2022
Ryan Jenkins will give a briefing on emerging threats and the future of homeland security at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School.

2 February - 8 March 2022
Patrick Lin will be participating in a series of DARPA ISAT workshops on wearable technologies (WSPR), incl. delivering a briefing on data ethics and bioethics.

21 September 2021
Ryan Jenkins (with Duncan Purves) will present to the "Leading in a Cognitive Age (LCA)" course, presented by the Center for Executive Education (CEE) at the Naval Postgraduate School.

10 June 2021
Ryan Jenkins will present at the Machine Learning Impact Initiative Summit hosted by Northwestern University.

22 April 2021
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk to Stanford's SystemX Alliance.

20 April 2021
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk to Cal Poly's Entrepreneurship Program.

16 March 2021
Ryan Jenkins will present at the American Association for the Advancement of Science: “Data for Good” Affinity Group.

12 March 2021
Ryan Jenkins will present to the AI Seminar in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.

12 January 2021
Patrick Lin is participating in USC's AI Futures Symposium.

10 November 2020
Ryan Jenkins and Patrick Lin will be participating in Northwestern University's workshop for its Machine Learning Impact Initiative.

6 November 2020
Keith Abney will be participating in the Future of War panel at the Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

15 August 2020
Ryan Jenkins will moderate a panel at the Thirteenth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress in Boulder, CO.

6-7 April 2020
We are co-organizing the AI and Future Arctic Conflicts workshop in Ottawa, sponsored by CIFAR, CNRS, and UKRI. (Canceled due to COVID-19.)

10 January 2020
Keith Abney will be participating in the American Bar Association's inaugural AI and Robotics National Institute at Santa Clara University's School of Law.

14 December 2019
Patrick Lin will be participating in the AI for Social Good workshop at NeurIPS in Vancouver.

28-30 October 2019
Patrick Lin will be participating in the Global Forum on AI for Humanity in Paris.

26-28 August 2019
Patrick Lin will be participating in the Cyber and AI Bootcamp for Congressional Staffers at Stanford.

August 2019
Ryan Jenkins will moderate a panel at the VMworld conference in San Francisco, California.

27-28 June 2019
Patrick Lin will be participating in the Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: Beyond the Trolley Problem workshop in Prague.

2-3 May 2019
Patrick Lin is participating in the Autonomous Security Systems conference at the Univerity of Zurich.

5-6 March 2019
Patrick Lin is participating in DARPA's AI Colloquium, in Alexandria, VA.

January 2019
Ryan Jenkins will present at the Purdue Policy Research Institute.

9 November 2018
Patrick Lin will be participating in technology ethics workshop at the World Economic Forum's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, at the Presidio.

8 November 2018
Patrick Lin will be participating in an AI & society workshop at Stanford, organized by The Royal Society UK.

25 October 2018
Ryan Jenkins will be giving a talk at Google Headquarters.

5 October 2018
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on the ethics of outer space exploration at MIT Media Lab.

4 October 2018
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on AI discrimination at MIT Media Lab.

18-19 June 2018
We are co-organizing a workshop on future Arctic conflicts at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, funded by the Fulbright Program and others.

31 May-1 June 2018
Patrick Lin will be participating at the Forum on Trust and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles at MIT Media Lab/Harvard Law School.

13-15 April 2018
Keith Abney will be speaking at Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology conference at Univ. of Nevada, Reno.

12-14 April 2018
Patrick Lin will be participating at "We Robot" conference at Stanford Law School.

2-3 February 2018
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on AI ethics at the AAAI/ACM's Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society in New Orleans.

9-10 December 2017
Patrick Lin will be participating in an AI ethics workshop in Long Beach, organized by the Future of Life Institute, Berggruen Institute, and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

11-12 November 2017
Patrick Lin will be participating in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils in Dubai, UAE.

8 October 2017
Patrick Lin will be giving a plenary talk on AI ethics at the National Academy of Engineering's annual meeting in Washington DC.

5-6 October 2017
Patrick Lin will be participating in a workshop on trust and autonomous weapons with the Canadian Department of National Defence and the University of Ottawa's law school.

1-3 August 2017
We are co-organizing a workshop on the ethics of cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik.

26-28 June 2017
We are co-organizing the International Association for Computing and Philosophy's annual conference at Stanford.

13 May 2017
Patrick Lin will be giving a talk on robot-car ethics at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, co-sponsored by Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

24 March 2017
Patrick Lin will be participating in World Economic Forum's Fourth Industrial Revolution roundtable in the Presidio, San Francisco.

23 March 2017
Patrick Lin will be giving an ethics talk at Machine Intelligence in Autonomous Vehicles Summit in So. San Francisco.

3-8 January 2017
Patrick Lin will be participating in an AI safety workshop and beneficial AI conference at Asilomar, organized by Future of Life Institute.

15 November 2016
Patrick Lin will be participating in a panel on autonomous driving ethics, organized by Time Inc. Media Group, during AutoMobility/Los Angeles Auto Show.

10 November 2016
Patrick Lin will be participating in an AI roundtable, organized by the Aspen Institute and IBM, in San Francisco.

17-18 October 2016
We are organizing an invitational-only conference on cyberwarfare norms/ethics at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

19 August 2016
Patrick Lin will be speaking on the ethics of connected and autonomous systems, such as Internet of Things, at the European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC) in Uppsala, Sweden, sponsored by the Swedish Defence Research Agency, IEEE, and others.

19 July 2016
We are organizing the half-day session on ethics and autonomous driving at Automated Vehicles Symposium in San Francisco, sponsored by the National Academies' Transportation Research Board and AUVSI.

31 March 2016
Patrick Lin will be speaking on an "AI, Automation, and the Good Life" panel in San Francisco, at the American Philosophical Association's annual Pacific Division meeting.

2 March 2016
Patrick Lin will be speaking on cyberwarfare ethics at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley.

1 March 2016
Patrick Lin will be organizing and participating on a panel on robot cars and AI at RSA Conference in San Francisco.

1 February 2016
Ryan Jenkins will be speaking on the ethics of surveillance at White Hat Security club at Cal Poly.

10 January 2016
Patrick Lin will be speaking on autonomous vehicles and ethics on the first day of the National Academies' Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington DC.

7-8 January 2016
Patrick Lin will be participating in a workshop on automation policy, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Homeland Security in Washington DC.

9 December 2015
Patrick Lin will give a talk on autonomous vehicles to the Future of Privacy Forum, located in Washington, DC.

7 December 2015
Patrick Lin and Ryan Jenkins will give a talk on ethics and autonomous systems to Apple at their headquarters in Cupertino, California.

11 November 2015
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
We are participating in a side-event panel at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) on the drivers for the weaponization of increasingly autonomous technologies, at UN Geneva.

9-10 November 2015
We are co-organizing and participating in a two-day expert meeting at UNIDIR on AI, cyber, and autonomous weapons, at the United Nations in Geneva.

9 October 2015
We are co-organizing and participating in a UNIDIR side-event on cyber and autonomous weapons at the United Nations' First Committee meetings in NYC. More info here.

7 October 2015
We are participating in MIT's Solve conference, on the subject of self-driving cars.

14-15 September 2015
We are co-organizing a follow-up workshop, "Autonomous Vehicles and Ethics", at Stanford University. More info here.

5 June 2015
We are co-organizing a workshop, "Toward Programming Ethics in Automated Vehicles", at Stanford University. More info and registration here.

13-17 April 2015
Patrick Lin will participate in the United Nations' Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting of experts in Geneva, Switzerland. As part of the UNIDIR delegation, he will speak about the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons systems. Transcript here.

17-18 November 2014
Patrick Lin will participate in a series of expert meetings on autonomous military systems and their implication for security and disarmament, convened by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland.

11 November 2014
Patrick Lin will give a talk on the philosophy and ethics of autonomous military weapons, including robotics and cyberweapons, sponsored by Stanford's Computer Science Department.

21-22 May 2014
We are hosting an invitational-only workshop on cyberwarfare and ethics/international humanitarian law at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

19-20 May 2014
Patrick Lin will participate in a series of expert meetings on autonomous military systems and their implication for security and disarmament, convened by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland.

13 May 2014
Patrick Lin will give a talk on ethics and emerging technologies to the Google legal team at their headquarters in Mountain View, California.

29 April 2014
Patrick Lin will give a talk on robot-car ethics at Tesla Motors' headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

28 April 2014
Patrick Lin will give a talk on robot-car ethics at the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, California.

27 March 2014
Patrick Lin will participate in the "The Road to Automated Vehicles and the Aging Population" workshop at Stanford Univerity, organized by the Stanford Center for Longevity annd Center for Automotive Research and Stanford (CARS).

19-21 March 2014
Patrick Lin will participate in a series of expert meetings on autonomous military systems and their implication for security and disarmament, convened by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland.

6 March 2014
Patrick Lin will participate in the "Cities on the Move" workshop, on the future of urban mobility, organized by New Cities Foundation and hosted at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

27 February 2014
Patrick Lin will give a public talk on robot-car ethics at the Nissan Research Center in Silicon Valley.

21 February 2014
Patrick Lin will give an ethics talk in Monterey, California, at the "Villa Ladenburg" project workshop on autonomous driving, sponsored by Daimler and Benz Foundation.

3 February 2014
Patrick Lin will give a panel talk on robot-car ethics, hosted by Stanford's Mechanical Engineering Department.

12 December 2013
Patrick Lin will give a talk on robot-car ethics at the workshop "Proceedings in Automated Driving", hosted by Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) at Stanford's School of Engineering.

6 December 2013
Patrick Lin will participate in a workshop hosted by National Institutes of Health and US Department of Defense on human performance optimization, held in Bethesda, Maryland.

14 November 2013
Patrick Lin will participate in a debate with DARPA director Dan Kaufman on the ethics of military artificial intelligence (AI) and drones, sponsored by Stanford's Computer Science Department.

7 November 2013
Patrick Lin will give a presentation "Ethics of Autonomous Cars" for the industry affiliates of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS), held at Stanford's School of Engineering.

15-19 July 2013
Patrick Lin will participate in a five-day workshop organized by the Transportation Research Board on "Challenges and Opportunities of Road Vehicle Automation", held at Stanford Law School.

11 July 2013
Patrick Lin will participate in the annual meeting of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society on privacy, surveillance, and other emerging issues in a digital world.

27 March 2013
Patrick Lin will participate in the two-day NeXTech wargames on future military technologies, sponsored by the US Office of Secretary of Defense (Rapid Reaction Technology Office) and the US Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland.

22 January 2013
Patrick Lin will talk about military human enhancements and the laws of war at Stanford's Center for Law and the Biosciences workshop series.

15 November 2012
Patrick Lin will participate in the two-day NeXTech wargames on future military technologies, sponsored by the US Office of Secretary of Defense (Rapid Reaction Technology Office) and the US Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey, California.

30 July 2012
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk "Cyber-Conflict: Issues in Ethics and Policy" at the Chautauqua Council (New York), sponsored by ASU's Lincoln Center.

24 July 2012
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk about a panel "Drones and Robotic Warfare", hosted by Ian Masters at UCLA's Hammer Museum. Click here for more information.

14 June 2012
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk about the ethics of military human enhancements at the Technology and Ethics of War workshop at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Australia.

13 June 2012
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk about robot ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Australia.

9 November 2011
Patrick Lin will brief the US intelligence community on ethical and policy surprises related to robots, at a Technology Focus Day sponsored by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture-capital arm.

31 August 2011
Patrick Lin will brief a National Research Council/DARPA committee on ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of emerging military technolgies, at the National Academies' Beckman Center at UC Irvine. Click here for more information.

7 July 2011
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Military Human Enhancements: On the Frontlines of Science and Society", at the Brocher Foundation's Summer Academy near Geneva, Switzerland. Click here for more information.

1 July 2011
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Informational Warfare: Exposing the Fuzzy Logic in International Law", at the first UNESCO-sponsored workshop on informational warfare at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). Click here for more information.

28 May 2011
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Soldier 2.0: How Engineering a Better Warfighter Disrupts Society", at the Society for Philosophy and Technology's annual conference at the University of North Texas. Click here for coverage on Wired.com.

26 April 2011
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter?: From Science to Ethics", at the Ethics in Nanoscience Workshop at the University of Delaware.

22 April 2011
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Philosophical Collaboration: A Case Study in Technology Ethics (or: How to Herd Cats)", at the American Philosophical Association's Pacific Division meeting in San Diego.

14 March 2011
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Military Blowback: Ethics, Emerging Technologies, and Society", at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

19 November 2010
George Bekey will deliver a talk, on military robots, at the Naval Postgraduate School's Distinguished Lecture Series. Click here for coverage of the talk.

17 November 2010
George Bekey will deliver a talk, on the increasing trend of ethics in STEM fields, at the 5th Annual Fall Ethics Symposium at Cosumnes River College. Click here for the conference program.

18 June 2010
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Robot Guardians: Ethical and Legal Issues in a Mechanized World", at the Computers, Freedom & Privacy 2010 conference at San Jose State University. Click here for the conference site.

13 June 2010
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Military 2.0: Ethical Issues in Human Enhancement and Robotics", at the Humanity+ Summit at Harvard University. Click here for the conference site.

27 May 2010
Patrick Lin will be a panelist at the local TEDx event in San Luis Obispo (TEDxChumash, "People 3.0: Leadership Beyond Barriers"). Click here for the event site.

12 May 2010
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Accelerating Evolution: Ethics of Human Enhancement Technologies", at Cal Poly's Science Café. Click here for the event site.

22 April 2010
Patrick Lin will deliver a talk, "Enhanced Warfighers: Ethical and Social Implications", about issues related to human enhancement at the US Naval Academy's annual ethics conference. Click here for the conference site.

9 April 2010
Keith Abney will talk about about "death panels" and Hurricane Katrina: the ethics of triage and rationing healthcare, as part of Allan Hancock College's Ethics Seminar. Click here for the flyer.

14 August 2009
Dr. Patrick Lin will debate the merits of gene patenting as part of the Leadership San Luis Obispo (SLO) program, affiliated with the SLO Chamber of Commerce.

28-29 March 2009
We are co-organizing a workshop on the ethics of human enhancement technologies, especially as enabled by nanotechnology.

10 March 2009
Professor emeritus Dr. George Bekey, founder of USC's robotics lab and co-author of our recent report on military robots and their ethical issues, will present some of our findings at Cal Poly's Research Scholar-in-Residence Lecture Series.

26 January 2008
Patrick Lin and Keith Abney will participate in the Technology in Wartime conference at Stanford Law School.


* Not all talks and meetings appear on this page, e.g., informal or classroom talks and earlier work.



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