Dr Kate Devitt

Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Dr. S. Kate Devitt is Chief Scientist of Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence CRC, Brisbane Australia; Adjunct Professor QUT Centre for Robotics, and CEO of BetterBeliefs evidence-based social platform. Kate has a PhD (philosophy) from Rutgers University and diverse education, teaching and experience in the history and philosophy of science, epistemology, cognitive science, ethics, science communication, information science, technology and regulation, psychology of statistics, decision support and human factors. Dr. Devitt helps build technologies that enable the development of ambitious autonomous systems across civilian and Defence applications that incorporate ethical, legal, and regulatory structures to achieve social license to operate and trusted adoption.