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Talks & interviews


Nell speaks regularly about AI ethics and safety across the world’s media — 198 recorded appearances, from conference keynotes to podcasts and panels.

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Agentic AI is set to drive business transformation in 2026

Business Reporter · 2026

IEEE study: 96 percent of leaders expect agentic AI adoption to accelerate in 2026

PEX · 2026

Can Big Tobacco Explain Big Tech?

The Beiruter · 2026

Nell Watson | Author & AI Safety Researcher

Trustworthy AI Chronicles Podcast · 2026

Developing AI talent for safer, smarter agentic systems in 2025

Business Reporter · 2025

Elon Musk’s chatbot which has phone sex with users ‘will hit global birth rates’

Metro · 2025

The AI talent imperative: Building expertise for safer agentic AI in 2025

Node · 2025

2025 Informed: How AI will transform business

TechInformed · 2025

Progress & Predictions 2025: Threats, harms and ethics

The Deep View · 2025

AI Governance Podcast - Agentic AI and our AI Future

Enzai · 2024

Do The Right Thing: 4 Ways To Navigate The Ethics Of AI

Forbes · 2024

How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it

Live Science · 2024

‘Put glue on your pizza’ embodies everything wrong with AI search

LiveScience · 2024

GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, researchers claim

LiveScience · 2024

Would you trust AI to speak to your customers?

Maddyness · 2024

It’s Not Only Scarlett Johansson Who Should Worry About AI Taking Her Voice

Metro · 2024

What Is Digital Exclusion – And Who Is At Risk?

Metro · 2024

UK and US sign landmark AI agreement

NS Digital World · 2024

Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?

The Guardian · 2024

AI trends: What experts, execs think artificial intelligence will look like in 2024

TheStreet · 2024

The Law and Ethics of AI

Wired · 2024

Gen Z’s digital natives will seem old-fashioned next to ‘Gen A

Fortune · 2023

Why the metaverse must be open but regulated

VentureBeat · 2022

Transhumanists Gather In Spain To Plan Global Transformation

The Federalist · 2021

An Audience With: Nell Watson, Futurist and Technology Philosopher

BIMA · 2020

Een onbevooroordeeld systeem maken is een echte kunst

Data News (Nederlands) · 2020

Advanced Manufacturings Moment

Forbes · 2020

AI Ethics and Social Reform with Nell Watson

Future Grind · 2020

AI and the Human – AI and Social Trust

The New School · 2020

My Digital Hero

BIMA · 2019

Robots Poised for Wider Role on Assembly Lines

Forbes · 2019

Futuro del negocio invita a empresas a más empatía

La Nación (Español) · 2019

A conversation in Austria between Nell Watson and Dominik Meisinger

Forbes · 2018

Moralische Maschinen

Forbes (Deutsch) · 2018

How Humans Could Become ‘Our Own Walking Hard Drives’

Vice · 2018

Welcoming robots into our lives

ABB · 2017

Intelligence 2.0 – Brain, AI and Hybrids

Next Big Future · 2017

The Struggle to Make AI Less Biased Than Its Creators

Singularity Hub · 2017

Could robots be marking your homework?

BBC · 2016

Will automation make us happier?

The Guardian · 2016

Synthetic Biology Leads to New Forms of Life

Biohacker Summit · 2015

Should you have sex with robots? Experts weigh in

CNBC · 2015

How Artificial Intelligence Could Eliminate (Or Reduce) The Need For Managers

Forbes · 2015

Robots could murder us out of KINDNESS unless they are taught the value of human life, engineer claims

Daily Mail · 2014

Can a robot truly love a human?

Daily Sabah · 2014

Five Powerful Reasons Coders Need Yoga

Fast Company · 2013

Startups Kick Asana with Nerd Yoga

VentureBeat · 2012

The Faces of Network AI: Toddler, Retriever, Mafia, Villain

6G World

5 key takeaways from SXSW

AFR

The Eyes of a Machine: Automation With Vision

AI Magazine

Interview with Nell Watson

AI Quick Bits

Robots Opvoeden, hoe doe je dat?

Adformatie (Nederlands)

Love and Physics: What the Universe Wants

Andrew Perlot

نحو-الذكاء-الاصطناعي-الأخلاقي

Arabian Technology Arabic

S#E#: Robots with Morals // Nell Watson

Are You A Robot?

What rights should robots have?

Atelier

Sunday Sequence on Artificial Intelligence

BBC Radio Ulster

F-TAG welcomes new members

BCS

Meet your AI partner: How tech is shaping the future of love

Belfast Telegraph

How responsible “agentic AI” can supercharge your startup

Big Think

Nell Watson on Artificial Intelligence

Biohacker’s Podcast

Generative AI’s Hype Cycle

Business Reporter

Should We Be Scared Of Elon Musk’s “Superhuman AI”?

CEO Insight

Robots could murder us out of kindness, says futurist

CNET

Reaction: UK, US AI safety agreement

Capacity

Can we make tech more responsible? Thoughts after one week in the Silicon Valley.

Carine Sit

국내외 미래 전문가 9人이 예상한 포스트 코로나

Chosun Ilbo (한국어)

Robots really could help dig us out of our low productivity spiral

City A.M.

Agentic AI Is Forcing a Governance Reset

Cloudera AI Forecast

The Ethical Algorithm

Cognitive Times

The Threat Of Agentic AI Manipulation

Cyber Security Intelligence

2050: Future students

Cybernews

2050: Future universities

Cybernews

2050: Transhumanism in education

Cybernews

2050: Artificial education

Cybernews

Deepfakes 2.0: The terrifying future of AI and fake news

Daily Dot

AI Experts Discuss Pausing AI Development

Deutsche Welle

Bring on the therapists! Why we need a DSM for AI ‘mental’ disorders

Diginomica

Din Framtida Chef Kan Vara en Robot

Digital.se (Svenska)

Machine Ethics: From Principles To Practicality

Disruption Hub

Nell Watson on Machine Intelligence and the Democratising Power of Tech

Droppin

The rise of AI executives: Reshaping leadership in the digital age

Elite Business

Digitale Makers om AI Ethics Brengen

Emerce (Nederlands)

The keystone for ethical tech

Engati CX

Can AI Make Us Better Leaders?

European Business Review

Guía práctica para mantenerse sano durante el COVID19

Executive Excellence (Español)

AI Exponential Thinker Part 1

Exponential Times

Thought Leader Speaks Series

Fair AI

We Need An Endohazard Warning Symbol

Fault Lines Radio

Can AI outperform a wealth manager at picking investments?

Financial Times

Flourishing from COVID-19 (with David Pearce, Andres Gomez, Yancey Strickler)

Foresight Institute

Nell Watson on Cosmology, Quantum Computing and AI

Futurati Podcast

Robots With Ethics?

FutureTech

Machine Ethics, Artificial Intelligence & Humanity: Nell Watson & Priyanka Vergadia

GOTO 2019

Couch Lesson: AI & Intelligence (with Markus Gabriel)

Goethe Institute

Kan vi skabe etisk kunstig intelligens?

Henrik Føhns at IDK (Dansk/English)

Human-Machine Relations and the Future of Human Society

HiFluence

Nell Watson: How To Teach AI Human Values

HumAIn Podcast

War on Transhumanism: Joe Allen debates scholars Max More, Nell Watson & Natasha Vita-More

Humanity Plus

Turning AI, deep learning and robots from children into responsible citizens

I-Scoop

Hvad skal menneskeheden lave, når robotterne har taget vores jobs?

IDA (Dansk)

Transmitter Profile

IEEE

How To Make Autonomous Systems More Transparent and Trustworthy

IEEE

Creating a Kinder Society through Kinder AI

IEEE

IEEE 3152: A Standard for Transparent Human and Machine Agency Identification

IEEE Computer Society

‘AI Pause’ Open Letter

IEEE Spectrum

IEEE CertifAIEd The Mark of AI Ethics

IEEE Standards Association

Quantum Vs. Classical AI Computing: Expert Reactions

IOT World Today

How AI can help – and hinder – the supply chain crisis

IT Pro

Psychopathia Machinalis: all 32 types of AI ‘madness’ in a new study

ITC.ua

What is high-performance computing (HPC)?

ITPro

How chief AI officers can streamline strategy from the boardroom down

ITPro

GPU memory vulnerability could allow hackers to access LLM responses

ITPro

Regulatory and Monetary Incentives to Adopt Safer Programming Languages

ITPro

Seven reasons why machine learning is a good career

ITPro

What the brain-computer interface (BCI) means for business

ITPro

Bir yapay zeka ahlak bilimcisi olarak çalışmak

Iklim Gazetisi (Türk)

Futurist Nell Watson on AI, job loss and the solution for preserving a welfare state

InnoMag

How AI will Transform the Way we Design and Manage the Places we Work

Insight.net

The Case for Generative AI in Business

Irish Tech News

In a future brave new world will it be possible to live forever?

Irish Times

Agentic AI: Navigating human-machine power dynamics

Kainos’ Beyond Boundaries

A Blueprint for Safe Agentic AI Adoption (with Ali Hessami)

Kogan Page

How to Prevent Powerful AI from Exceeding Our Grasp

Kogan Page

AI Mental Health: A New Diagnostic Framework

LNGFRM

Nous allons entretenir une relation de plus en plus forte avec les machines

L’Echo

How Artificial Intelligence can help build resilient communities

Machine Learning

Could our future leaders be AI?

Management Today

Co-Evolution: Machines For Moral Enlightenment

Mindplex Magazine

Substrate-Independent Computation

Mindplex Magazine

Optionality & Infinite Games

Mindplex Magazine

Robot Ethics with Nell Watson

Moonshot

Nell Watson on the Near & Not So Near Future of Intelligence

Multiverses

Here’s how AI could help catch shoplifters in the act

NBC News

The Hive Podcast: AI, Ethics, and Humanity

Nathalie Nahai

Empathy, Participation & The Future of AI

Nathalie Nahai

Networks Will Power AI’s Next Big Breakthroughs

Nokia

Magnanimous machines: Why AI work should work for people and not the other way around

ORF

No futuro, vamos ter amigos robôs. E isso é uma coisa boa

Observador (Português)

UK, US sign AI MOU for safety testing

Professional Security

Data in the driving seat for city transport systems

Raconteur

Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Our New Society

Rebellion Research

Deep Reinforcement Learning Applications

Rebellion Research

UK government announces £8m for shipping automation

Robotics & Automation

The Benefits of Using Collaborative Robots

Robotics & Innovation Magazine

Evolution of AI and where is it leading us

SIM Professional Development

Scientists Create New Framework to Understand AI Dysfunctions and Risks

SSBCrack

Artificial Intelligence Ethics

SeVR

Visualization of the Quantified Self

Shapewatch

A Chat with Nell Watson

Stephen Ibaraki, IEEE TEMS / ACM

Deepfakes Are Being Weaponised Against Women; We Need To Take Action

Stylist

Agents Will Develop Their Own Distinct Culture, with Nell Watson

Super Data Science

Ethics integral to the advancement of modern technology

SyncNI

Future Discussions

TAFFDS magazine

TAFFDS magazine interview with Nell Watson

TAFFDS magazine

Towards a hybrid future of man, machine and corporate entities

Tech Central

Nell Watson on face masks, telepresence, & the rise of niche markets

Tech Mag

European expert calls for new laws and regulations for autonomous AI

TechCentral

Agentic vs copilots: what’s the future of GenAI?

TechInformed

Landmark AI Agreement Signed By UK And US

TechRound

Taming the Machine

Techscape on Taking Stock

Waarom Het Belangrijk Is Dat Machines Leren Denken

Techzine (Nederlands)

AI and the Future of Propaganda

The AI in Business Podcast

The Challenge of Anticipating Disruptive AI Innovations

The Brand Called You

AI Ethics & Safety: What Could Go Wrong and How to Stop It

The Brave Technologist

AI: Savior or Threat? Your career, your decision, you choose

The Recruitment Show

Our ability as humans to overcome global challenges

The Road to Sustainability

Microsoft resurrects plan to snapshot your screen every five seconds

The Stack

Sam Altman Warns AI Could Kill Us All. Really??? Ft. Nell Watson

The xMonks Drive

Popular social media platform to sell user data to the company behind ChatGPT

TheStreet

Billionaire venture capitalist defends Silicon Valley in bold, tech-loving manifesto

TheStreet

The ethics of artificial intelligence: A path toward responsible AI

TheStreet

Microsoft assumes legal liability as artists, authors battle AI encroachment

TheStreet

Gentenaars maken pashokjes passé

Tijd.be (Nederlands)

Wir brauchen einen neuen radikalen Humanismus

Tim Leberecht (Deutsch)

The Autonomy Paradox: Building AI We Can Trust to Act, with Ali Hessami

TimTalk

Maintaining the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Total Information AM

The State of AI

Trajectory Magazine

The AI would be the CEO and pay the workers with Bitcoins

Trending Topics

Heady Machinery

University of the West Indies

Venture Capitalist Interviews: Nell Watson

Vasco Patrício

The Human Aspect of Machine Intelligence

Voice America

The Rise of the Cognitive Ecosystem

Wall Street Journal

Where next for AI?

Waypoint Partners

Thoughts on Ùgòchúkwú Chúkwú’s An Exercise in Clear Thinking

YouTube

How should we handle humanity’s problem child?

i-Invest