Emily Robinson presenting at a research talk

Public Speaking

I speak on AI, sustainability, responsible innovation, environmental justice, and the social implications of emerging technologies.

Recent Speaking Engagements

Sustainability of AI Workshop — Organiser & Speaker

AI as an innovative tool and an environment burden.

2025

AI4NetZero Conference — Panel Speaker

Should We Trust AI for Net Zero?

2025

Machine Learning for Earth Observation

The Role of Social Sciences

2025

COP29 — Panel Speaker

How does the digital transition threaten environmental justice?

2024

Venice International University — Guest Lecturer

Pathways to a Net-Zero Transport Sector

University of Exeter — Guest Lecturer

The Lithium Rush and Ethical Implications of Electrifying Transport

Global Systems Institute — Guest Lecturer

The Political Ecology of Lithium Mining

Topics: AI & Society · AI & Sustainability · Responsible Innovation · Environmental Justice · Technology & Ethics · Energy Transitions · Critical Raw Materials · Technology & Society

Interested in inviting me to speak?

emilyrobinson91@outlook.com

Collaborations

The Alan Turing Institute

Interpretive Technologies for Sustainability

Collaborated with the Alan Turing Institute on research exploring interpretive and hermeneutical approaches to AI. The work examined how AI systems can engage with contested knowledge, societal values, and plural interpretations of environmental and climate issues.

Focus: AI · Hermeneutics · Interpretivism · Sustainability

University of Exeter

Environmental Intelligence & AI for Sustainable Futures

PhD research within the Environmental Intelligence CDT examining how values, interpretation, and societal tensions shape emerging technologies. The research combined computational social science, qualitative interviews, and STS across AI and decarbonisation technologies.

Focus: Technology & Society · AI · Sustainability · Public Discourse · Responsible Innovation

Data, Technology & the Green Transition

OSF-funded Research Project · University of Exeter

Interdisciplinary research investigating the societal and environmental impacts of the technologies and raw materials underpinning the green transition. Combined spatial data analysis with qualitative and multi-stakeholder engagement to examine accountability, justice, and governance in extractive industries.

Focus: Critical Raw Materials · Green Transition · Environmental Justice · Governance

Environmental Intelligence Research Community

Collaborated across the Environmental Intelligence research community to explore how AI, data, and environmental science can be brought together with social science and humanities perspectives.

This work has included research and workshops examining the social, ethical, and environmental implications, and the challenges of developing more reflexive approaches to Environmental Intelligence.

Focus: Environmental Intelligence · AI · Interdisciplinarity · Sustainability

Research Publications

Lead-Authored Papers

Agreement Helps, Disagreement Matters: Scaling Framing Function Analysis with Large Language Models

Emily Robinson & Chico Camargo
Under second revision

Uncomfortable Knowledge: How Experts Manage the Tensions of AI Sustainability

Emily Robinson & Sarah Hartley
Forthcoming, 2026

Rage Against the Machine: 'Cancel Culture' and the Delegitimisation of Emerging Technologies

Emily Robinson & Sarah Hartley
Forthcoming, 2026

Co-Authored Papers

Meaning Is Not a Metric: Using LLMs to Make Cultural Context Legible at Scale

Kommers, C., Hemment, D., Antoniak, M., Leibo, J. Z., Long, H., Robinson, E. & Sobey, A.
arXiv preprint, 2025

Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology

Kommers, C., Ahnert, R., Antoniak, M., Benetos, E., Benford, S., Bunz, M., Robinson, E. et al.
SSRN preprint, August 2025

Working Papers

AI Literacy: Student Voices in Higher Education

Katie Leadingham, Robert Pearce & Emily Robinson
Forthcoming, 2026

Responsible AI Literacy in Higher Education: New Directions

Sarah Hartley, Katie Leadingham, Emily Robinson & Florence Sargent
Forthcoming, 2026