I am looking forward to presenting my second Keynote Lecture this year, this time on AI Histories at the Capegemini “Autopilot Yes/No” Conference in Bassum/Amsterdam. I’m looking forward to revisiting the work I did with Simon Schaffer on the Magical Mechanical Museum exhibition, and BBC Radio 4 In Our Time, together also with Elly Truitt. I will be reflecting on how histories of Automata can help us think through current challenges faced on the intersections of AI & Society.