Selected Talks

• 30 Years of Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: Lessons for Agentic systems: talk to industry. (PDF slides) (2025)
• 30 Years of Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: What and Why? Keynote at AAMAS 2024 (PDF slides) (2024)
• Invited talk at Social Bridges 3: AI Myths & Misperceptions - What AI Experts Wish everyone Knew (recording on YouTube, PDF slides) (2021)
• Human-inspired metaphors for software: my inaugural professorial lecture (at Otago) (recording on YouTube, PDF slides) (2014)

Opinion Pieces

• Michael Winikoff, Stephen Cranefield, Alistair Knott. An area in which we can take moral leadership, opinion piece in newsroom.co.nz on the banning of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). [published 25 July 2019]
• Michael Winikoff. Opinion piece on Artificial Intelligence and employment. (the rather generic headline "Computers will shape our future" was added by the ODT) (2017)
• Michael Winikoff, Opinion: Who believes in super intelligence?, Otago University Bulletin Board. (2017)
• Michael Winikoff, How to make robots that we can trust, The Conversation. (2017)