Kate Devlin
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Come for the sex robots; stay for the eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
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Kate Devlin
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Turned On
'Illuminating, witty and written with a wide open mind' - Sunday TimesAn exploration of humans, sexuality, interaction and technology through the lens of the se…
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Wondering what to get the person who has everything for Christmas? Might I suggest my book: a pop-sci foray into love, sex, history, psychology, philosophy, AI, and robots? Still timely, still relevant. Described by one reviewer as “not enough tentacle porn”.
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Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
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Power and Difference in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com | Susan Oman
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
"Your doctoral research project will be designed by you to respond to...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
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Every now and again people I've met at a work thing will say "I'll connect with you on LinkedIn" and I remember this a month later and log on and the whole interface is a bewildering mess of self-congratulatory nonsense and so I log off again and decide I'm happier missing out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Every now and again people I've met at a work thing will say "I'll connect with you on LinkedIn" and I remember this a month later and log on and the whole interface is a bewildering mess of self-congratulatory nonsense and so I log off again and decide I'm happier missing out.
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peoples beds broke like a week ago because the internet went out.
Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going. www.wired.com/story/why-ar...
Why Are We All Still Carrying Around Car Keys?
Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going.
www.wired.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
peoples beds broke like a week ago because the internet went out.
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This might be of interest to a few people
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This might be of interest to a few people
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
Everyone on my feed talking about sandwich guy and giving sandwich details and I’m stuck on a train with no access to sandwiches and I’m so hungry
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Everyone on my feed talking about sandwich guy and giving sandwich details and I’m stuck on a train with no access to sandwiches and I’m so hungry
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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
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The Data Empowerment Clinic has officially launched!
The Centre for Data Futures has launched the Data Empowerment Clinic, the first educational initiative of its kind dedicated to advancing grassroots data empowerment movements worldwide.
Learn more ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-dat...
The Centre for Data Futures has launched the Data Empowerment Clinic, the first educational initiative of its kind dedicated to advancing grassroots data empowerment movements worldwide.
Learn more ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-dat...
New Data Empowerment Clinic launches to tackle 'missing profession' of the 21st Century | King's College London
The first dedicated educational infrastructure of its kind, the Clinic will support grassroots data empowerment movements globally and enable students to gain hands-on experience in data empowerment p...
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Data Empowerment Clinic has officially launched!
The Centre for Data Futures has launched the Data Empowerment Clinic, the first educational initiative of its kind dedicated to advancing grassroots data empowerment movements worldwide.
Learn more ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-dat...
The Centre for Data Futures has launched the Data Empowerment Clinic, the first educational initiative of its kind dedicated to advancing grassroots data empowerment movements worldwide.
Learn more ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-dat...
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NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
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I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
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💡 What does quantum revolution mean for humanity?
On 19 November, join our event in collaboration with @scigallerylon.bsky.social and hear from Professor James Millen, Dr Libby Heaney, Faiyaz Amin and Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social.
Register below — no science background needed! ⬇️
On 19 November, join our event in collaboration with @scigallerylon.bsky.social and hear from Professor James Millen, Dr Libby Heaney, Faiyaz Amin and Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social.
Register below — no science background needed! ⬇️
What does quantum mean for humanity? | King's College London
How will quantum change the world we live in and what will that mean for each of us?
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
💡 What does quantum revolution mean for humanity?
On 19 November, join our event in collaboration with @scigallerylon.bsky.social and hear from Professor James Millen, Dr Libby Heaney, Faiyaz Amin and Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social.
Register below — no science background needed! ⬇️
On 19 November, join our event in collaboration with @scigallerylon.bsky.social and hear from Professor James Millen, Dr Libby Heaney, Faiyaz Amin and Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social.
Register below — no science background needed! ⬇️
I was due to take part in an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight but now I’m choosing not to go because I won’t cross a picket line. Solidarity to @pcsunion.bsky.social and the British Library workers.
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I was due to take part in an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight but now I’m choosing not to go because I won’t cross a picket line. Solidarity to @pcsunion.bsky.social and the British Library workers.
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'Study in SHAPE disciplines – social sciences, humanities and the arts – develops the skills that underpin a modern workforce: critical thinking, communication and creativity. These are not peripheral to the industrial strategy but essential to it.' 1/3
Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?
Policymakers should take a broad view of the value of degree courses when building our future workforce, says Charlotte Hallahan
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'Study in SHAPE disciplines – social sciences, humanities and the arts – develops the skills that underpin a modern workforce: critical thinking, communication and creativity. These are not peripheral to the industrial strategy but essential to it.' 1/3
@ginasue.bsky.social Look what has arrived in my life!
November 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@ginasue.bsky.social Look what has arrived in my life!
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Except Barry.
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Except Barry.
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“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
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2025 is the 25th anniversary of space archaeology as a field! Here is a thread of 10 videos to whet your appetite. #SpaceArchaeology 🧪 🏺 🔭
1. What is space archaeology all about? In this TEDxSydney talk, I share my journey from regular archaeologist to space archaeologist, what I think some of the big issues are, and a few favourites places and artefacts. (2012)
🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology
🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology
Space archaeology | Alice Gorman | TEDxSydney
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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October 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
2025 is the 25th anniversary of space archaeology as a field! Here is a thread of 10 videos to whet your appetite. #SpaceArchaeology 🧪 🏺 🔭
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People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...
Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...
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Do the dead have free expression? Griefbots are becoming increasingly popular in the age of #AI. @drkatedevlin.bsky.social explores the growing phenomena and questions whether we should have the right to shape our own words once we die: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/do-t...
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Do the dead have free expression? Griefbots are becoming increasingly popular in the age of #AI. @drkatedevlin.bsky.social explores the growing phenomena and questions whether we should have the right to shape our own words once we die: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/do-t...
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Every time.
So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Every time.
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#ChatGPT is getting spicy 😳
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#ChatGPT is getting spicy 😳
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
No one’s really bothering to build sex robots anymore. That shipped has sailed. It’s AI lovers on your phone, not sex robots in your home.
I just contemplated a sex robot designed by Microsoft and now I’m quite traumatised.
“We will never build a sex robot,” says Mustafa Suleyman
A conversation with the Microsoft AI boss about boundaries, digital species, and the future of chatbots.
www.technologyreview.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
No one’s really bothering to build sex robots anymore. That shipped has sailed. It’s AI lovers on your phone, not sex robots in your home.
My morning walk in the woods; not sticking around for nighttime, thanks.
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My morning walk in the woods; not sticking around for nighttime, thanks.
(Well, obvs my regret is that my work email address is online and that men take time out of their day to tell me in detail why they think I'm wrong.)
It's me: your local, friendly, left-wing, bleeding heart, liberal, woke academic (and I regret nothing): www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The debate: Are facial recognition cameras in Sainsbury's a step too far? - BBC News
As Sainsbury's uses facial recognition cameras to crack down on shoplifting, four experts debate the technology's pros and cons.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
(Well, obvs my regret is that my work email address is online and that men take time out of their day to tell me in detail why they think I'm wrong.)
It's me: your local, friendly, left-wing, bleeding heart, liberal, woke academic (and I regret nothing): www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The debate: Are facial recognition cameras in Sainsbury's a step too far? - BBC News
As Sainsbury's uses facial recognition cameras to crack down on shoplifting, four experts debate the technology's pros and cons.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It's me: your local, friendly, left-wing, bleeding heart, liberal, woke academic (and I regret nothing): www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.