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Alexander Martin Mussgnug

Alexander’s PhD research project is the Role of Measurement in Machine Learning and Ethical Implications of the Philosophy of Measurement, co-supervised in the School of Informatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences.

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Andrew Linn

Andrew is a third year PhD student with the Usher Institute, researching the implementation and evaluation practices of robotic surgery systems. Andrew’s research draws on his roots in moral theory, and its application to contemporary medical high technology, as well as practice theory empowered by an ethnographic methodology.

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Andrew S. Zelny

Andrew’s academic interests focus on the intersection between ethics, psychology, and technology and how these fields come together to influence technological innovation and the development of moral character.

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Atoosa Kasirzadeh

January 2022 - June 2024

Prior to her appointment as Assistant Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr Atoosa Kasirzadeh was Chancellors Fellow and Research Lead at the CTMF. She had previously held research posts with Australian National University’s Humanising Machine Intelligence project and with DeepMind.

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Bhargavi Ganesh

Bhargavi’s PhD research project is A Responsibility Framework for Governing Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, co-supervised in the School of Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

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Carolina Sanz de la Fuente

Carolina studies the transhumanist movement - which seeks to transform biology with nanotechnologies, biotechnologies and AI - and its critiques; by resorting to computer scientists, continental philosophers and theologians, her research aims to mediate this battle and develop an interdisciplinary technology ethics.  

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Cristina Richie

Dr Cristina Richie joined the Centre in August 2023. She is Lecturer and Cohort Lead for the MSc in Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute. Her research is driven by a global vision of clean, just, and ethical health care and technology through the development of strategies and policies.

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Elena Walsh

Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

Elena is a Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Woolongong, Australia. She works on emotion and emotional dispositions, drawing especially on dynamical systems theory, life history theory, and predictive processing models of mind.

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Harry Weir-McAndrew

Harry’s research focuses on the foundation of moral skill, norms, and responsibility – highlighting what we risk as AI companies and corporate structures increasingly insulate decision-makers and developers from the social feedback loops that develop moral expertise.

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Jacqueline Rowe

Jacqueline’s PhD research explores how to make Natural Language Processing tools and technologies safer, fairer and more equitable for speakers of marginalised languages, drawing on her interdisciplinary background in linguistics, human rights and computer science.

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Judith Simon

April 2023

Judith Simon is Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the Universität Hamburg. She is interested in ethical, epistemological and political questions arising in the context of digital technologies, in particular in regards to big data and artificial intelligence.

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Matthew J Cull

Dr Matthew J. Cull is an interdisciplinary research fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. A philosopher, they work on a variety of areas in social and political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.

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Shannon Vallor

The Centre is led by Director Shannon Vallor, the Baillie Gifford Professor in Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute and Department of Philosophy. Professor Vallor also chairs the University’s AI and Data Ethics Advisory Board.

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Stella Rhode

Stella is developing models for risk prediction in intensive care using AI and causal inference methods. With a background in philosophy and data science, she is exploring how ethical reasoning can be explicitly embedded in the model development process.

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