Kate Darling

Katherine 'Kate' Irene Maynard Darling (January 27, 1982) is an American-Swiss academic with a background in the legal and ethics implications of technology, and as of 2019 is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab.[1][2][3]

Katherine Irene Maynard Darling
Born1982 (age 39–40)
Alma materETH Zurich, University of Basel
Scientific career
FieldsLaw, ethics, technology
Thesis

Academic career

Darling was born in the US, but grew up in Basel, Switzerland. Darling received degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Basel. After a 2014 PhD titled 'Copyright and new technologies: theoretical and empirical analysis of copyright transfers and content production incentives' at ETH Zurich, Darling returned the US, to teach a robot ethics course at Harvard Law School with Lawrence Lessig.[1] In Darling's robot ethics course, she touches upon how law and robotics work together. However, she primarily focuses on the legal and social issues with robotics.[4] Darling is a former fellow at Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society,[5] the Yale Information Society Project[1] and the Center for Law & Economics.[6]

Darling has an honorary doctorate of sciences from Middlebury College.[7][8] Darling has written multiple academic articles with much of the research she has done. These articles range from human-robot interactions to analysis of copyright transfers.

Darling is an expert in robot ethics. One of her biggest achievements was that she was awarded with a Mark T Banner Award in Intellectual Property. Her work has been featured in Vogue, PBS, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, and CBC. Until this day she continues to explore more about robots which can result into one of us finding ourselves exploring new things in the future.

References[9] https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/
  1. "Bio". Kate Darling.
  2. "Person Overview ‹ Kate Darling". MIT Media Lab.
  3. "Kate Darling | Robohub".
  4. "Person Overview ‹ Kate Darling". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  5. "Kate Darling". Berkman Klein Center. 30 August 2019.
  6. "Former Members". lawecon.ethz.ch.
  7. "Class of 2017 Celebrates Commencement". Middlebury. 28 May 2017.
  8. "ALU Founder Receives Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA". 28 May 2017.
  9. Maynard Darling, Katherine Irene (2014). "Kate Darling thesis" (PDF). Thesis final February 2014. [Copyright and new technologies: theoretical and empirical analysis of copyright transfers and content production incentives Archived] from the original on 2014. Retrieved 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); Check date values in: |access-date= (help)


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