outreach

Speaking

I am a speaker at Humanities Washington where I give a talk on GriefBots When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Doppelgangers. I have given this talk at numerous venues in the state of Washington. To book me for the talk on GriefBots in Washington, you can contact Humanities Washington. Here is a list of past and upcoming talks:

• Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Connell, WA November 7, 2024
• Jefferson County Library, Virtual October 16, 2024
• Jefferson County Library, Port Hadlock, WA October 9, 2024
• Magnolia United Church of Christ, Virtual April 15, 2024
• Bothell Library, Bothell, WA April 3, 2024
• Tacoma Public Library Moore Branch Tacoma, WA February 6, 2024

Here is some public lectures that I have given outside of Humanities Washington

• Digital Resurrections: A Son’s Journey to Recreate His Father with Artificial Intelligence Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA November 4, 2024
• Digital Afterlife: Using AI to Simulate the Dead Invited talk at Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA October 17, 2019

For a list of my academic and technical talks click here

Media Articles

Here are some articles that I have written for the popular press mainly around the intersection of society and technology:

• My App Says That You Are Lying: The Future Of Misinformation 3 Quarks Daily July 3, 2017
• This is the Muslim tradition of sci-fi and speculative fiction Aeon 27 June 2017
• Data Nihilsm And Agnothology 3 Quarks Daily January 30, 2017
• Data Science And 2016 Presidential Elections 3 Quarks Daily December 19, 2016
• How the dearly departed could come back to life – digitally Aeon November 9, 2016
• Do The Right Thing And Leave Judgment To Algorithms 3 Quarks Daily November 7, 2016
• Modeling Artificial And Real Societies 3 Quarks Daily August 22, 2016
• Algocracy: Outsourcing Governance To Algorithms 3 Quarks Daily July 18, 2016
• The Past Of Islamic Civilization 3 Quarks Daily May 23, 2016
• Here Is Waldo: Anonymity In The Age Of Big Data 3 Quarks Daily April 25, 2016

Plays

CYpher is play written by Harold Taw which deals with digital immortality nature of identity and relationships. I was part of a post-plat panel when the play had it first public reading at University Heights Center, Seattle, WA