Kay Firth-Butterfield’s career started in law as a barrister and part-time judge. But over time, she began researching the future of law, particularly the impact of AI and the intersection of AI and policy.

She is currently the CEO of Good Tech Advisory: “Good Tech Advisory enables your business transformation to take advantage of the benefits of AI and frontier technologies.”

Kay helps businesses and leaders to create governance boards, educating everyone from board members to c-suite, and staff, to procure frontier tech tools and understand the essential place of diversity in a frontier tech workforce.

Recently, she has served as a distinguished scholar at the Robert S Strauss Centre for International Security and Law, looking at the use of AI in international relations and law, as well as a senior research fellow at the University of Texas.

She has worked alongside the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Aarts, Manufacturers, and Commerce. Lucid AI as Chief Officer of the Ethics Advisory Panel, and as an advisory for the Foundation for Responsible Robots.

Kay has advised think tanks, nonprofits, and governments on artificial intelligence in relation to ethics, law and policy.

Kay has been involved in a range of technology governance projects, including:

– An AI Board/C-Suite Toolkit

– Quantum Computing Governance Principles Report

– The Smart Toy Awards

– Responsible AI Playbook (IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce)

– ChatbotRESET

– FireAID

– GEP Supply Chains

MEDIA

She has appeared on a range of television and radio programmes, as well as in newspapers, magazines, and online publications, with topics such as robots, AI and taking jobs, governance in generative AI, healthcare and AI, schooling and AI, the Ethics of AI, and the risks and benefits of transforming technologies.

She has appeared on BBC, NBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, HPE TV, CNBC, The Economist Radio, France 24, CBC, CXO Radio, In AI We Trust podcast, and the FT Longitude Podcast.

To date, Kay has published two books:

– Laws on Human Trafficking (2012)

– Human Trafficking and Human Rights (2012)

Her third book, Co-Existing With AI, is due out in March 2026. She has also written a number of articles to online and printed educational, business, and national publications.

CORPORATE

Kay has spoken on dozens of panels and fireside chats, as well as giving keynote speeches for industry-specific audiences, including governments. Her keynotes can last from 10 minutes to an hour, with or without a Q&A, discussing a plethora of AI topics.

Voted in the top 20 AI Speakers in the World, Kay’s speaking topics include:

– AI in Governance and Law

– AI and Healthcare

– Wise Design Development and Deployment of AI in an Organisation

– AI Agents

– AI and Sustainability

– AI and Geopolitics

– Humanity in the Age of AI

– AI at Work

– AI at Home

– Lethal Autonomous Weapons

She has also given talks on responsible AI, AI and society, the future of work, women in AI, competitiveness, AI and finance, AI and data, AI and geopolitics, AI in the Media, and Diversity and Inclusion.

Her corporate roles have seen her appear in countries around the globe, from Peru to Athens and Columbia, the UK to Belgium, India, and Austria, Africa to China to Spain and Austria, USA to France, Italy, Singapore, Switzerland, and Chile.

PREVIOUS KEYNOTES OF NOTE

– Humans in Charge: Flying the Starship (2024) in Hungary

– AWS GenAI Loft: Innovation, Responsibility, and Magic (2024) in London

– Automation Anywhere: AI and the Automation for Humanity (2024) in USA

– Developing AI Well: The Art of the Possible (2024) in Vancouver

– How AI Can Transform Healthcare (2024) in USA

– A Brave New World of AI Governance (2024) in USA

– Sharing Perspectives (2024) in Sweden

– Driving Economic Growth in AI in a Productivity-Challenged Future (2024) in Switzerland

AWARDS

Kay’s contributions to the field of technology and AI has seen her become the recipient of many an award or accolade, including being listed in the Forbes 50 Over 50 list, and was one of the four people named in TIME’s 100 Impact Awards 2024. She was also named one of the Most important 25 Women in Robots in 2017, a Brilliant Woman in AI Ethics 2018, one of the top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame honourees, was named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership, and was named as one of Marquis’ Who’s Who Makers’ List of Emerging Innovators to Watch.

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