Responsible AI is not solely a technical challenge: it is also a social one, a cultural one, and a human one. Designing, developing, and deploying AI in ways that are ethical, inclusive, and accountable requires the combined insight of diverse disciplines. No single field can hold the answers to the complex challenge: we need to work together across boundaries, using a variety of methodologies and a combination of approaches, to anticipate risks, mitigate harms, and ensure AI serves the public good. Interdisciplinary collaboration is not optional – it is foundational to building systems that reflect pluralistic values. It’s also not easy – and this talk will outline the pitfalls and propose good practices.
Without interdisciplinarity there can be no responsibility
Prof Kate Devlin
16 July 2025
9:30 am - 12:15 pm
Please note that this event is part of the Safe & Trusted AI Summer School.
About the speaker
Professor Devlin’s research investigates how – and why – people interact with and react to technologies, both past and future. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book “Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots” (Bloomsbury, 2018), which examines the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy. She is Chair-Director of the Digital Futures Institute at King’s, and is King’s investigator on the UKRI’s £31 million Responsible AI UK programme, which brings together researchers from across the UK to understand how to shape the development of AI to benefit people, communities and society.