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Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation. Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Had a very lively conversation with Judy Estrin, Christopher Wylie, Justine Bateman and @antelava.bsky.social from @codastory.bsky.social, on how to challenge the increasingly authoritarian shape of Silicon Valley power
27.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1📢 Job opportunity! 📢
Opportunity to join our Edinburgh-based team as BRAID Project Administrator. Full time, til Nov 2028. Find out more:
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A pivotal role, helping ensure smooth running of BRAID.
Come help us make a difference.
#Edinburgh #Jobs
Open Call for Global Majority Fellowship 🌍
Only just over a week left to apply for the Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing Global Majority Fellowship Scheme, housed at Edinburgh Futures Institute!
Applications close 31 July.
Visit 🌐 www.responsiblenlp.org/global-major...
Join us @edbookfest.bsky.social, for 'Navigating the AI Revolution' with Richard Susskind.
Chaired by Shannon Vallor, @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and sponsored by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute
🗓️ 24 August | 15:15pm – 16:15pm
🎟️ Tickets £15.50: edin.ac/3TWjqar
Congratulations Dr @mussgnug.bsky.social! All of us at the CTMF are so proud of you! 🎉
You can read Alex's most recent paper, which challenges the idea of AI as a distinct territory for ethics and regulation, here: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Looking forward to this panel!
30.06.2025 12:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations @zelny.bsky.social!
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Join Dr Audrey Borowski (@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Visiting Fellow) for the last event of her ‘AI and the Digital’ seminar series, where she will be in conversation with @shannonvallor.bsky.social!
📍 Online via Zoom
📅 Monday 30 June 7.00-8.00pm BST
🎟️ Register: edin.ac/45GJgXd
One week on from the BRAID Community Gathering, and we’re still feeling the energy from a day filled with insight, authenticity and connection.
Heartfelt thanks to our speakers, attendees; Our Community - your being there made it what it was.
Lovely to see this piece linking my work with that of Charles Taylor, Joseph Stiglitz, Elinor Ostrom and others who challenge our failing model of liberalism, one that enables the private enclosure of public goods and the resulting collapse of our civic virtues and capabilities for common life.
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Happy to share that our Landscape Study on Responsible AI has just been published: zenodo.org/records/1519...
If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi...
@braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
Can’t wait for this fireside chat with the always amazing @alexhanna.bsky.social later today at Edinburgh’s Quaker Meeting House, a seminar sponsored by @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and GAIL; @lighthousebks.bsky.social will also be there with copies of The AI Con and The AI Mirror!
20.06.2025 08:34 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
BRAID-commissioned artists gathered at the Lowry, smiling and with bright colours in the background.
Excited to be in Manchester where the #BRAIDUK community is gathering. 3 years since the launch of BRAID, we look forward to celebrating the achievements of our community, & exploring together opportunities for the future @christophersmith.bsky.social #AHRC #AcademicSky #AHRC
18.06.2025 09:13 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3
Professor Shannon Vallor introducing Meenakshi Mani at the CTMF PhD Showcase. Meenakshi's title slide is up on the projector screens and reads: The trifecta of colonial "isms": AI, Big Tech & Indian education
CTMF PhD Fellows are stood next to their research posters at the CTMF PhD Showcase. They are speaking with event attendees about their research.
Last week, we celebrated five years of incredible research at the Centre for Technomoral Futures with our PhD Showcase!
The afternoon was a celebration of our PhD Fellow's hard work, as well as a testament to the fantastic research community we have fostered at the CTMF.
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
@inakigoni.bsky.social @jamiedwebb.bsky.social @clairebarale.bsky.social @meenakshimani.bsky.social @joenote.bsky.social
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Blue to green gradient graphic, with headshot photos of Iñaki Goñi, Jamie Webb, Claire Barale, Meenakshi Mani, Elisa Cardamone, and Joe Noteboom. Image includes the caption 'Technomoral Futures in Focus' which is the title of the campaign celebrating the success of our students.
Six PhD Journeys. One incredible community.
Recap our 'Futures in Focus' series and meet our PhD Fellows working at the intersection of ethics and technology!
Read their stories ▶️ edin.ac/44t6iQG
@shannonvallor.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
You can find our PhD Fellows, as well as our Research Affiliates in our CTMF Research Community starter pack: go.bsky.app/MRccmFQ
10.06.2025 10:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was wonderful to see the culmination of their work for the past 5 years, and we can't wait to see where the next 5 years takes them!
A big thank you to our CTMF community, for playing an integral role in building this brilliant, supportive, multi-disciplinary community!
Coming from a multitude of backgrounds, this extraordinary group of young minds shared their ideas through poster presentations and lightening talks.
You can view their posters and learn about their research on the online event space ▶️ edin.ac/4jm1Si7
🎙️ Introducing “Futures Conversations” — a new podcast from Edinburgh Futures Institute! We explore ethics, data, politics, design & media across 6 episodes.
🎧 Ep 1 with Professor @shannonvallor.bsky.social on AI ethics is out now!
🔗 Listen + learn more: efi.ed.ac.uk/futures-conv...
This conversation with @alexhanna.bsky.social in Edinburgh will be one of the highlights of my summer!
03.06.2025 16:23 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Huge congrats to @joenote.bsky.social and to @technomoralfutures.bsky.social for building such a stellar model for interdisciplinary PhD scholarship.
04.06.2025 10:47 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to Dr. Noteboom! All of us at EFI and @technomoralfutures.bsky.social are so proud to have supported your PhD research and very grateful to get to work with you. Congrats also to your amazing supervisors @jenr.bsky.social and @karengregory.bsky.social!
04.06.2025 10:40 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations Dr Noteboom!! 🎉
You can read about @joenote.bsky.social's research and PhD journey on our website ▶️ edin.ac/43qrvtq
And read his open access article on 'The student as user: mapping student perspectives on platformisation in higher ed' here ▶️ doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2414055
Really excited to be in conversation with @shannonvallor.bsky.social in a few weeks!
03.06.2025 15:06 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Alex’s dissertation explores the ethical and epistemological impacts of machine learning prediction on the practice of science, and the measurement of poverty in particular. It’s amazing work. So grateful to have been there to see it develop, and to have worked with Alex as my first Edinburgh PhD.
19.05.2025 17:53 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations to Dr Alex @mussgnug.bsky.social, CTMF PhD Fellow, for passing his viva with no corrections! 🎉
You can read his work in the European Journal of Philosophy of Science, Development and Change, & these pre-prints:
💡 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24891/
💡 arxiv.org/abs/2412.05130
We're looking forward to having Ramsha Naeem (University of Central Punjab) join us as an EFI Visiting Fellow in the autumn!
19.05.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My debate at the @noemamag.com anniversary is now online - it’s a spicy one! (albeit not by philosophy standards. No fireplace pokers were used).
16.05.2025 06:21 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1@zelny.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @uoe-cahss.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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