Speaking

I often give keynotes and conference talks or join panels. The audiences vary: engineers, executives, and policymakers. The topics I return to most often:

• Challenging the engineering mindset
• Moral imagination in technology development
• Trading off the blessings and curses of AI in science
• The role of ethics in technical decision-making

I prefer to work from the theme of your event and what you want the audience to take away when they leave the room, then build a narrative arc around case studies and make theory interesting and relevant.

Government and policy audiences

I run interactive sessions for government bodies and policymakers working out how to regulate AI, including briefings on emerging law and technology. These sessions are built for people who need to make decisions. Because I advise engineering teams on the same technology from the other side, I can put the concrete trade-offs in front of the room.

A government body preparing to apply the AI Act to a new category of systems asked me to run sessions that gave officials a working grasp of where the technology's real risks lie, distinct from where public debate assumes they lie. The sessions used cases from my own advisory work to show how a specific technical design choice produces a specific regulatory concern, so officials could reason about the next case themselves.

Some recorded talks

At the Lawrence Berkeley Lab in 2025

At the Troopers Hacker conference in 2016