Talks, Lectures & Media

🎤 Invited talks, 👨🏼‍🏫 Lectures & 🏋🏼‍♀️ Workshops

• guest lecture Philosophy, Politics, Ethics of AI · September ‘26 The Turing Test Today – language, definitions of intelligence and human machine interaction

• invited talk SAILS Lunchtime Seminar · September ‘26 Collaborative Meaning-Making: The Emergence of Novel Languages in Humans, Machines, and Human-Machine Interactions.

• invited talk AI, Art and Embodiment symposium · May ‘25 Cross-modal associations in Vision and Language Models, and emergent communication in hybrid Human-LLM teams.

• guest lecture Non-Human Cognition · Leiden University, February ‘24, March ‘25, April ‘26 How Large Language Models perceive textual input, and how we should think about terms such as ‘understanding’, ‘knowing’, and ‘belief’ in these models. Collaborative meaning-making between humans, machines, and human-machine pairs.

• invited talk de Collectie · January ‘25

• invited talk How to get a PhD? · February ‘25 A guide explaining how to get a job as a PhD candidate and how to navigate the PhD journey.

• invited talk Language Emergence between Humans, Machines, and Human-Machine teams · February ‘25 An invited talk for the Leiden University board in which I presented my research on emergent communication in hybrid human-machine teams.

• invited talk Scripps · May ‘23

• invited talk Studium Generale · September ‘22 Mens in de Machine: Een goed gesprek met Kunstmatige Intelligentie.

• guest lecture Video Games for Research · Leiden University, September ‘22

• workshop Agent-based Modelling · October–November ‘21, ‘23 Workshop for the MSc course Social Technologies.

📰 News & 🎧 Media

• Can AI ever truly understand us? · Spotify podcast, June ‘26

• Meta gaat social media data gebruiken om hun taalmodellen te trainen · NOS Journaal, May ‘25

• Is kunstmatige intelligentie gevaarlijk? En andere vragen over AI beantwoord · EenVandaag, April ‘23

• Tom Kouwenhoven wil brug tussen AI en de mens ontwikkelen · Leiden University, May ‘21