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The Future of Education: AI

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Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.

The Future of AI at School

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This event will bring together key figures from the Scottish education landscape to talk about AI in schools and our education futures.

A Conversation about the Edinburgh Conversations

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From their personal knowledge, our conversationalists will discuss the success of the original Edinburgh Conversations in the 1980s, and how in the context of the current global situation, the approach might be replicated.

Margaret Atwood: Practical Utopias – An Exploration of the Possible

Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this Future Tense event features Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us

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Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems.

Words from the Wards: Jennifer Williams

Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, hear stories capturing the memories and experiences of the Edinburgh Futures Institute building in its previous life as a hospital.

Digital Cultural Heritage at Edinburgh Futures Institute: Research Exchange

Hear about some of the latest research and engagement projects led by the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster members, make new connections and get inspired.

How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of AI

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Join us to celebrate publication of Shannon Vallor’s latest work The AI Mirror, one of the most important books we can read right now to find our way through the AI-hype headlines and harness its power to reinvigorate our sense of human agency and possibility.

Ethical responsibilities in displaying provocative AI artistic experiences

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Our panel of artists, curators, and researchers explores how data-driven art raises new ethical provocations for curation and exhibition.

Where are AI’s publics?

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What role should the public have in shaping Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Should the public have a voice in how AI is being developed and used, and how it’s governed and regulated? And how might a diverse cross section of the public be involved in the decisions made by big tech, regulatory bodies, and local and national government?

The Future of Education: AI

Join us to challenge, create, and make change happen.