Human-Robot Interaction researcher, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines.
Author of "Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice" (MIT Press 2025).
Personal: tomwilliams.phd
Lab: MIRRORLab.mines.edu
Tom Williams
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Denverites:
• Excited by the anti-flock protests?
• Thrilled that Palantir is OUT of Denver?
Let's set our sights on drone surveillance next.
Read why in my op-ed in Colorado's favorite independent newspaper (@coloradosun.com)
coloradosun.com/2026/02/17/o...
Thank you to Alex Miller from @onstagecolorado.bsky.social for having me on the Pod to discuss this Friday's ROBOT RIOT Comedy show + Dramatheurgy!
onstagecolorado.com/podcast-a-ro...
Boston! Mark your calendars for 3/23: Come grab a beer and learn about my new book!
Book Talk: Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice
Date: Mar 23 • 17:00 • Lamplighter
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...
Great article interviewing @tomwilliams.phd about the AI-themed comedy show happening at RISE Comedy in Denver this Friday... including me performing stand up! (Also brb adding "headliner" to my CV.) www.westword.com/arts-culture...
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Getting served a RING add on this story about Flock cameras being operated in Denver despite the lack of a legal contract is just too perfect.
I discuss Ring and police surveillance in Chapter 6 of Degrees of Freedom.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Very thankful to Toni Tresca at @westword.com for interviewing me about my new monthly Robotics+AI infused comedy show /Robot Riot/!
www.westword.com/arts-culture...
Our first show, this Friday, will feature comedians trying to improvise around robotic interjections; improvised science fiction; and tech ethics standup from @professorcasey.bsky.social
Tickets: www.crowdwork.com/e/robot-riot...
Tom Williams
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
