Applications are open to work with the Centre for Technomoral Futures and the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences as Lecturer in Philosophy of Technology.
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Dr Anissa Tanweer and Dr Audrey Borowski will join the CTMF Research Community during the 2024-2025 year, as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institutes Visiting Fellowship Programme!
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Can AI-driven systems be deployed within religious communities for pastoral care on all levels? If so, what is the role of human ministers in pastoral care in the age of AI? Hear from Dr Ximian Xu on Companionable AI in Christian Pastoral Care in this blog post.
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Hear James Garforth, Benedetta Catanzariti and Meenakshi Mani reflect on their experience collaborating across social science and computer science to design and teach the new EFI 'Translational Data and AI Ethics' intensive course.
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On 22 February 2024, EFI hosted a staff-student workshop on the implications of generative AI systems like ChatGPT for the university, organised by EFI and the University’s AI & Data Ethics Advisory Board. Read the report here!
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On the 3rd June 2024, Professor Vallor’s new book ‘The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking’ was released with Oxford University Press!
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‘New Perspectives on AI Futures’ was a workshop series held in spring 2023, funded by the Alan Turing Institute and led by Dr Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Chancellor’s Fellow and Research Lead at the CTMF. Read the report here!
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On the 8th November 2023, Professor Vallor testified to the United States’ Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on the philosophy AI and how we can use historical knowledge and experiences to shape our future.
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As the Centre’s third year comes to a close, we stand on the brink of an exciting new phase of maturity. Thanks to our remarkable early growth, in spite of the pandemic’s challenges, the Centre is about to meet all of its initial milestones.
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The Nuffield Foundation has appointed three new members to the Oversight Board of the Ada Lovelace Institute, founded in 2018 with a mission to make data and AI work for people and society.
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Chancellor’s Fellow Dr. Atoosa Kasirzadeh joined the Centre for Technomoral Futures as Research Lead in January 2022.
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The Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring 2023 programme: Love Machine opens 6 March and runs until 5 May.
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We are excited to announce that abstract submissions are now open for the Postgraduate Bioethics Conference 2023, which will be held in Edinburgh on Monday 12th - Tuesday 13th June. The conference is co-organised by one of our PhD students, Jamie Webb.
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We are pleased to share this report on the activities and impact of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in its first two years. Under the leadership of our Director, Shannon Vallor, the Centre has achieved an incredible amount in just a short time, and this represents our first effort to share that work publicly in a summarized form.
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The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), have appointed Centre for Technomoral Futures Director, Professor Shannon Vallor, and Professor Ewa Luger to direct the £3.5 million programme ‘Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem’ in collaboration with the Ada Lovelace Institute.
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Co-developed by Professors Shannon Vallor, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, John Zerilli and James Garforth, our MSc in Data and AI Ethics programme meets the urgent demand for interdisciplinary skills and knowledge in the ethical design, use and governance of artificial intelligence and other data-intensive technologies.
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The paper, co-authored by Professor Stuart Anderson from the School of Informatics and our CTMF Director Professor Shannon Vallor, looks at lessons learned from US government responses to steamboat accidents and how they can be used nowadays in AI governance.
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology.
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Professor Shannon Vallor to be principal investigator on a UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme: Responsibility Grant, funded by ESPRC.
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The Centre for Technomoral Futures and Global Compassion Initiative at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, announce an event intended to inspire and drive change in the context of COP 26.
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