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We are excited to announce that Dr Emily Sullivan, an expert at the intersection of the philosophy of science and machine learning, will be joining the University of Edinburgh in August 2025 as Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Technology.

This workshop brought CTMF staff together with researchers from the University's Vet School, Roslin Institute, and Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems to explore how data ethics applies across their disciplines.

Examining the ethical implications of natural language processing. The Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Centre for Technomoral Futures and the School of Informatics are delighted to invite applications for this funded PhD studentship, to begin in the academic year 2025/2026.

2023-2024 was a year of extraordinary activity for the Centre, with an array of events, seminars, and research that continues to shape the Centre’s mission to unify technical and moral knowledge that directly serves the goals of sustainable, just and ethical innovation.

In this blog post, Professor Burkhard Schafer shares his experiences of a session he recently led with a group of pupils at Balerno High School in Edinburgh to explore the intersection of robotics, AI, and ethics.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Shannon Vallor has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Research.