WGCDR S. Kate Conroy PhD (née Devitt) is a leading global expert in responsible AI and trusted autonomous systems in military and civilian domains and national expert in AI assurance in government. She is Responsible AI Lead for the Royal Australian Air Force (Specialist Capability Officer Reservist) and an AI Safety and Assurance Advisor for the Queensland Government. Dr Conroy was Chief Scientist of Trusted Autonomous Systems (TAS) 2020-2023 and Social and Ethical Robotics Researcher for Defence Science and Technology Group 2019-2021.
She was CEO of BetterBeliefs a Bayesian collective intelligence platform 2017-2024. She has a PhD in philosophy (epistemology, applied ethics) and graduate certificate in cognitive science, Rutgers University NJ USA and a BA (Hons), Melbourne University. Dr Conroy is a leading SME co-author of the National Framework for the Assurance of Artificial Intelligence in Government (2024), Queensland Government’s Foundational AI Risk Assessment (FAIRA) (2024), TAS Responsible AI for Defence (RAID) Toolkit (2023) and the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Gateway (RAS-Gateway).
She is Adjunct Professor QUT Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology and Adjunct Associate Professor Human-Centred Computing, University of Queensland. Dr Conroy is a Fellow of the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group and Member of the TTCP – Ethical, Legal, Social, and Environmental Issues (ELSEI) Action Group, 2019-2023 she was a Member TTCP AI Strategic Challenge Ethics & Law Working Group.. She is one of ‘100 Brilliant Women AI Ethics 2023′ and ’50 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About 2021’.
