person

Kate Devlin

King's College London; AI and intimacy researcher

King's College London computer scientist and author of Turned On (2018), studying AI sex robots and the intersection of AI with human intimacy.

current Reader in AI, King's College London

@drkatedevlin

Strategy positions

AI welfaremixed

Model welfare/moral status is a primary consideration

Researches AI's intersection with human intimacy and sexuality; argues this domain has been ignored by mainstream AI ethics frameworks.

AI intimacy is going to be a much bigger part of how AI is deployed than mainstream AI ethics has been willing to consider.

❧ bookTurned On: Science, Sex and Robots· Bloomsbury Sigma· 2018· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Kate Devlin's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Alan Cowen
shared 1 · J=1.00
Founder of Hume AI; emotional AI researcher
Anil Seth
shared 1 · J=1.00
University of Sussex neuroscientist; consciousness researcher
Blake Lemoine
shared 1 · J=1.00
Former Google engineer; LaMDA sentience claimant
Brian Tomasik
shared 1 · J=1.00
Foundational Research Institute co-founder; suffering-focused ethics
Christof Koch
shared 1 · J=1.00
Neuroscientist; Allen Institute for Brain Science
Daniel Dennett
shared 1 · J=1.00
Philosopher; 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' (1942–2024)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.