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Inaugural Lecture of Professor Shannon Vallor
23rd October 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM BST
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is very proud to announce the inaugural lecture of, Professor Shannon Vallor, which will take place in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, with a private reception to follow.
Her lecture is entitled, ‘In a Mirror, Dimly: Why AI Can’t Tell Our Stories, and Why We Must’.
The event is open to the public and all colleagues, friends and students are welcome to attend.
Speaker Biography
Professor Shannon Vallor serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI), and is Programme Director for EFI’s MSc in Data and AI Ethics. She holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy.
Professor Vallor joined the Futures Institute in 2020 following a career in the United States as a leader in the ethics of emerging technologies, including a post as a visiting AI Ethicist at Google from 2018-2020. She is the author of The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016). She serves as advisor to government and industry bodies on responsible AI and data ethics. She is also Principal Investigator and Co-Director (with Professor Ewa Luger) of the UKRI research programme BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
