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Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...

"One of the challenges of Generative AIs is they amplify existing behaviours, and that is both good and bad." @arfon.bsky.social

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Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...

“AI is already contributing a lot to science & it’s especially good in certain kinds of tasks. For example, detecting patterns in large amounts of data is something current architectures of AI were built for.” @erantal.bsky.social

Watch the recording ▶️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt

@shannonvallor.bsky.social

Eran Tal, Arfon Smith, Anna Scaife and Emily Sullivan seated on stage during the Technomoral Conversations event. They are mid-conversation.

Thank you to all who joined us for our Technomoral Conversation with @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social earlier this month!

It was wonderful to hear from @erantal.bsky.social, @arfon.bsky.social, Prof Anna Scaife & CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on how AI will change science.

Data-Driven Healthcare Empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence'

✨exploring empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence' - an in-person event with Edinburgh’s DARE project researchers @nicolasugden.bsky.social, Abby King and Max Perry, looking at how data is being used in UK healthcare and biomedical research.

⬇️ sign up below!

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AI Ethics and the Future of Management Theory with Dr Ramsha Naeem - Edinburgh Futures Institute Hear from EFI Visiting Fellow, Dr Ramsha Naeem on the need for interdisciplinary dialogue between AI ethics and management theory.

Join us for the next @technomoralfutures.bsky.social event, featuring EFI Visiting Fellow, Dr Ramsha Naeem.

This seminar explores how established management theories can be revisited and extended through ethical lenses.

🗓️ 25 Nov | 12pm - 1pm GMT
📍 EFI & Online
💳 Free
🎟️ edin.ac/4r5wLwE

EVENT INVITATION: Openness and AI roundtable, London, 24 November

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NEW OPPORTUNITY:
We are seeking members to join our BRAID Stakeholder Forum, helping to shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK.
Information and details of how to submit your expression of interest can be found here:

braiduk.org/braid-stakeh...

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩

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Gen AI & the novel: new report from @clemicollett.bsky.social examines how literary creatives are using (or not using) GenAI, how their work & income are affected, how this shapes their hopes & fears, & what measures govt might take to protect UK literary scene. Launch 20 Nov see linked post!

Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...

Starting shortly at 6pm GMT! Watch the live stream here - edin.ac/3VSUXUt

Join us tonight for our Technomoral Conversation on 'How will AI change science?'!

🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online

Register to attend in person or watch the livestream: edin.ac/3VSUXUt

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE!

Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception

⬇️ sign up

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How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy

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Check out our upcoming events (including our next Technomoral Conversation, happening on 4 November!) here: edin.ac/3ZGQEPe

A big thank you to Professor @jpsullins.bsky.social for being the CTMF’s first ever Distinguished Visiting Scholar, and being so generous with his time!

@shannonvallor.bsky.social

Professors Shannon Vallor and John P Sullins stood outside of the event venue, in front of a banner for the Centre for Technomoral Futures.

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Attendees speaking with Professor Sullins during the reception following his lecture.

Thanks to all who came out for our CTMF Flagship Lecture with Prof @jpsullins.bsky.social earlier this semester!

In 'Wisdom for an Artificial Age' he explored the evolution of technology's role in shaping morality & wisdom in an increasingly automated world.

Watch the recording: edin.ac/4pESnix

Still time to register for next Tuesday’s conversation on AI’s impact on science - join us in Edinburgh or online for a lively fireside chat between philosophers and scientists on the hype, the reality, and the future of AI in science, led by our CTMF Co-Director Dr. Emily Sullivan!

Blue to green gradient graphic with headshots of the speakers for the Technomoral Conversations event, and text reading: Technomoral Conversations, How Will AI Change Science? Join us on 4 November at 6pm in Edinburgh & online, where we will hear from: Emily Sullivan (University of Edinburgh), Eran Tal (McGill University), Arfon Smith (Schmidt Sciences), and Anna Scaife (University of Manchester).

A few days left to register for our Technomoral Conversations event!

🗓️ Tuesday 4 November 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 EFI & online
🎟️ http://edin.ac/3VSUXUt

Join this conversation interrogating how AI has transformed science for better or worse, and whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science 🤔🤖

In this conversation, we will discuss the ways in which AI has transformed science for better or worse, what it means for AI itself to be seen as a scientist, and whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science.

@shannonvallor.bsky.social @erantal.bsky.social @arfon.bsky.social

Run in collaboration with @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social, the Technomoral Conversations series brings together leaders, creators and innovators from academia, technology, business and the third sector in a ‘fireside chat’ format to discuss futures that are worth wanting.

Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...

There's just over one week until our Technomoral Conversations event looking at how AI will change science!

Tickets are still available to join us in person or online for this free event:

🗓️ Tuesday 4 November 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt

Poster of the PhAI event, featuring images of the keynote presentors Markus Kneer, Mona Simion, and Emily Sullivan.

Excited to be heading to Amsterdam to present some work that @loehrgui.bsky.social and I have been sketching out on AI assertion.
We suggest that some AI chatbots might be answerable, thus rendering them capable of asserting. Strange stuff.

#philsky #AIethics

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Really excited to present one of the papers coming out of my PhD at the AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) conference tomorrow called "The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology". Link here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... Thread on the paper below 👇

6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!

Chaired by the Centre for Technomoral Futures' new Co-Director, Dr Emily Sullivan, this event will feature @erantal.bsky.social, @arfon.bsky.social, and Professor Anna Scaife!

@shannonvallor.bsky.social

Run in collaboration with @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social, the Technomoral Conversations series brings together leaders, creators and innovators from academia, technology, business and the third sector in a ‘fireside chat’ format to discuss futures that are worth wanting.

Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...

In our upcoming Technomoral Conversation we will discuss how AI has transformed science for better or worse, what it means for AI to be seen as a scientist & whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science.

🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt

Blue to green gradient graphic with headshots of the speakers for the Technomoral Conversations event, and text reading: Technomoral Conversations, How Will AI Change Science? Join us on 4 November at 6pm in Edinburgh & online, where we will hear from: Emily Sullivan (University of Edinburgh), Eran Tal (McGill University), Arfon Smith (Schmidt Sciences), and Anna Scaife (University of Manchester).

Scientists in nearly every field are reaching for new powerful machine learning & AI methods to see if AI has been the missing piece to solve longstanding problems & make new discoveries. Not only has AI started to change how science is done, but also how science is taught, organized & credited.

We're live! Watch the livestream here: edin.ac/4pESnix

Join us tomorrow night (15 October) at 6pm in person or online, as we hear Professor Sullins discuss this disruptive history and explore the surprising role that human wisdom is playing to help us navigate the challenges of AI technologies and create a more humane future.

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