August 2024
Greenbelt – talks, panels, and events on AI, tbc
March 2024
“AI and the Future of Religion”, for Christians in Science, 11th March
February 2024
Princeton CTI Webinar: Current Research on AI & Religion, 3rd February
January 2024
AI Workshop, Meet-Lab, UZH, 25th January
November 2023
Religion and AI, American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 16 – 21st November
October 2023
September 2023
“How AI is Shaping Our Future”, at Scientifica, ETH and UZH, Zurich, 1 – 2nd September
August 2023
Greenbelt, UK, 24th – 27th August
July 2023
“Will AI Create a Religion?”: Views of the Algorithmic Forms of the Religious Life in Popular Discourse”, at the Virtous AI Conference, Rome, Italy, 24th – 27th July
June 2023
Panel: “AI and Future Technology”, GoNeDigiTal Conference 2023, 2nd June
May 2023
December 2022
November 2022
Center for Culture, Society and Religion, Princeton University: A Conversation with Beth Singler
American Academy of Religion, Panel: AI and Religion in AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
October 2022
URRP Digital Religions UZH Conference, Monte Verita, Switzerland
September 2022
July 2022
June 2022
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, discussion panel at the Phoenix, Exeter
New Scientist Evening Lecture: Understanding the AI revolution, London, UK
Royal Anthropological Institute Conference: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society, ONLINE
May 2022
Keynote – Religion and Science Forum Conference, Birmingham, UK
‘Exploring Belief’, the Religion Media Festival, London, UK
March 2022
New Scientist Live, Manchester, UK – “AI: Friend or Foe?” (postponed from January 2021)
A Salon for Humans & Machines, a conversion with Beth Singler. Conversing with William Powers Visiting Scholar for Humanistic Technologies at CHM and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age – Berlin and Online – 15th March – LINK to Youtube video
ECLAS Conference: Robotics, AI, and Ethics – POSTPONED, date tb
February 2022
November 2021
10th November, Annual Digital Religion Research Award Lecture
October 2021
“The Dreams our Stuff is Made of: Trust, Agency, and Super-agency”. Talk on AI Ethics at CHAIR
Video now here
July 2021
June 2021
CogX 2021 events:
Chairing a panel on Existential Threats: the Unpredictable Horizon
Interviewing Max Tegmark on Why Democracy Needs and Algorithm
May 2021
11th May – Inclusivity Lounge online, hosted by Women on Top at the Delphi Economic Forum
April 2021
8th April – “Preparing for the Robopocalypse: the Real Dangers of Artificial Intelligence and Robots” – public talk, Homerton College
13th April – Webinar on disinformation, democracy, religion, and the digital
March 2021
Research Seminar at KU Leuven: “Blessed by the Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and Religion in Online and Offline Discourse”
January 2021
Private Workshop on the ethical impacts of AI, European Academy on Religion and Society (EARS)
November 2020
Co-Opting AI: Fiction: NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU Tandon’s Department for Technology, Culture and Society and the 370 Jay Project invite you to a discussion on finance in the series “Co-Opting AI.” (ONLINE)
October 2020
Ada Lovelace Day, Tuesday 13th October – Panel on ‘The Near Future’ (ONLINE)
September 2020
Religion and AI Conference, Italy, (ONLINE)
June 2020
New Scientist Evening Lecture – “AI and the Future of Your Mind”, London – POSTPONED
May 2020
BERA Conference on Being Human: Education in a Technological Age, Cambridge UK – POSTPONED
April 2020
JISC Conference Keynote, UK – POSTPONED
March 2020
Keynote, Religion and AI Conference, Italy – POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER
January 2020
Night of Ideas, French Embassy, London
November 2019
American Academy of Religion Conference, Keynote talk for Religion and Media workshop and paper for AI and Religion Seminar (steering committee member)
Blade Runner panel and Screening, Cambridge
Mercerism, Religion, and Gender – Teeside Cyberpunk Festival
October 2019
AI: The End of Society? – Norwich Science Festival
God and the Machine Panel – AI and Religion, Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2019
Could Robots Ever Become Artists? – London Science Museum
September 2019
Alumni Festival, Cambridge University – “Are we ready for AI?”
Trust and Technology Initiative 2019 Symposium – “Clap if you Believe in AI: Fairies, Ghosts, and Algorithmic Gods”
June 2019
CogX Festival of AI and Emerging Technology: Panel on ‘Robomorphisation’ and interviewed Paul Mason and Anand Girahadas about their new books.
Annual CenSamm Conference 2019: Keynote on AI and Apocalypticism
May 2019
Presented at the AI: Religious and Ethical Perspectives conference, organised by the Science and Human Dimensions Project with funding from Templeton
April 2019
British Society for Literature and Science Conference, Royal Holloway
March 2019
Launch for Ghost in the Machine, with CSER and the Ground Zero Exhibition
Invitation from FCO to speak at AI Summit Munich
February 2019
Panel for Ground Zero Exhibition with CSER
December 2018
Science in Public Conference, Cardiff University
October 2018
Homerton College 250th Anniversary – Monsters and Me: Frankenstein and AI
September 2018
Ars Electronica – Talk available here
22nd September 2018
New Scientist Live
I’ll be on the Technology stage on the Saturday talking about What machines can tell us about being human 🙂
June 2018
Cheltenham Science Festival
A special panel, sponsored by the AHRC to celebrate our short documentary on AI, Pain in the Machine, the winner of the 2018 Best Research Film of the Year Award. After a screening I will be discussing the film with Murray Shanahan (Google DeepMind, Imperial College, London) and Barry Smith (Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London) 🙂
April 2018
Edinburgh Science Festival, 2018:
Appearing on two panels, one on the legacy of Frankenstein (Let’s Talk Frankly), and one on how What Do Robots Think About When No One’s Around.
April 2018
Keynote speaker at CenSamm’s conference on Apocalyptic AI, Bedford, discussing ‘Mind Out of Place: Thinking About AI Apocalypticism Anthropologically’
March 2018
Appearing with the rest of the AI Narratives crew for a panel on AI at Imagining the History o the Future: Unsettling Scientific Stories, York University
February 2018
Speaking at the Symposium on Light, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
January 2018
Dr Singler will be in Lisbon to be interviewed as a part of the CCB’s Imagine 2084 series of speakers, recorded to be broadcast as well.
November 2017
Beth appeared on BBC Click Live, discussing Pain in the Machine (at about 16 mins in):
Along with three experts on medical history, medicine, and the science of swearing, Beth discussed Pain in the Machine on Start the Week:
Beth presented to the Lords Select Committee on AI as a part of the AI Narratives team, one of the four projects from the Centre for the Future of Intelligence that were asked to report on the work of the centre to the committee.
November 2017
Pain in Machine, the first film in our series, won the AHRC award for best research film of the year.
The second film in our series, Friend in the Machine, was released:
10th- 12th October 2017
Beth was in Tokyo for the symposium on AI and Society and a one day workshop on beneficial AI. She also took the opportunity to do some fieldwork and visited Asimo at the Museum of Science and Emerging Technology, the robot hotel, and the robot restaurant:
AI and Religion on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Programme:
Beth appeared as a guest on the Sunday Programme to talk about the religious language used by technologists and transhumanists about the future of AI and humanity.
27/07/2017
New Scientist Presents: The Transhumanists’ Club
Should we accept that humanity’s time is nearly up?
Panel discussion as a part of the Barbican’s Into the Unknown exhibition
With Adam Rutherford, Joanna Kavenna, and Frank Swain
Interview with Beth on BBC Click for their episode on the robots of the future
24/06/2017
The Knowledge at the Science Museum – How to Make a Robot
- How we built RoboThespian Ben Russell, lead curator, Robots, in conversation with Will Jackson of Engineered Arts
- Putting the mind in the machine Roger Highfield, Science Museum Director of External Affairs, in conversation with Dr Beth Singler, AI and Robotics Research Associate, Faraday Institute
- How can humans and robots work together? Jon Milton, author of The Super Intelligent, High Tech Robot Book, in conversation with Dr Michael Walters, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire
Talk: How to make a robot + private tour of Robots exhibition
Saturday 24 June 2017
8.30–14.00
Robots, Level 1 + Lecture Theatre
10/06/2017
Cheltenham Science Festival
The Machine Mind
Do androids dream of electric sheep? From incognito twitter-bots to grandmaster-beating machines, artificial intelligence capable of highly sophisticated interactions is no longer restricted to science fiction. Artifical intelligence expert Murray Shanahan and digital anthropologist Beth Singler investigate the machine mind – exploring how we engineer intelligence, what we know about robot thought processes, and how similar they might be to our own. Chaired by Dallas Campbell
Sat 10 Jun 2017 5:30pm – 6:30pm
At The Crucible
27/05/2017 and 28/05/2017
Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts
Beth Singler has been selected as one of the Hay 30
Beth will be appearing on the BBC stage for BBC Click Live on Saturday 27th May, and on Sunday 28th May she’ll be on the Starlight stage discussing her research into the implications of developments in AI and robotics, as a part of the Cambridge Series of speakers. On the Sunday she’ll be showing her project’s short documentary film Pain in the Machine (made with Little Dragon Films and Ewan St John Smith, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge).
22/5/2017
The Annual Centre for the Application of Research (CSAR) Debate: ‘This House believes that AI/Robotics will make us happier’
Presiding: Dr. David Cleevely, CBE Proposing: Prof. Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge
Seconding: Dr Fumiya Iida, University of Cambridge
Opposing: Dr. David Good, University of Cambridge
Seconding: Dr. Advait Sarkar, Microsoft Research,
Cambridge Sweeper against: Dr Beth Singler, University of Cambridge
Sweeper for: Nigel Miller, Telegraph Media Group
Professor Beth Singler 