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SUMMARY:How Users Imagine Archival Research
DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects. \n\n\n\nHow Users Imagine Archival Research: JPCA Explore and Digital Curation at the Smithsonian National African American History and Culture Museum. \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, the National Museum of African American History and Culture created a first-of-its-kind position at the Smithsonian Institution: a senior-level curator with the wide-ranging portfolio of “digital interpretation.” Filling this position has called for creative education\, especially when working with curatorial colleagues with a range of experiences and interests in digital humanities. In the past year\, we’ve had a unique opportunity to introduce the possibilities of digital discoveries internally through the JPCA Explore project. \n\n\n\nThe Johnson Publishing Company Archive (JPCA) is the largest collection of 20th-century African American publishing materials\, including a core collection of over 3 million photographs. The JPCA was purchased in 2019 by a consortium of funders – the Ford Foundation\, the J. Paul Getty Trust\, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Smithsonian Institution. Since 2022\, it has been formally co-stewarded by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Getty. \n\n\n\nJPCA Explore is an experimental discovery lens in the larger in-development JPCA digital eco-system. Based on a hand-selected subset of 3\,000 images\, Explore uses a bespoke metadata schema to invite users with zero research experience to create their own discovery paths by selecting inter-connected images. Explore was designed with an eye towards how the general public imagines archival discovery- moving from file to file\, noticing connections\, discovering the unknown. It has also served as an internal education tool\, demonstrating the possibilities of digital humanities work as well as the intensive resources that are required to make those possibilities real. \n\n\n\nThis talk will focus on the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects that still represent the magnitude of larger collections. By creating an interface with a focus on archival discovery\, and at the same time completely ignoring archival hierarchical structures\, this project seeks to implement Black Digital Humanities concepts to create new avenues into this archive. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nDorothy Berry\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDorothy Berry is the Digital Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Holding an MA in Folklore and Ethnomusicology and an MLS from Indiana University’s School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Engineering\, she was recognised with Library Journal’s “Movers and Shakers” award and the Society of American Archivists’ Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award (2020–2021). Dorothy’s first book\, The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities\, was released on 16th October 2025. Following a sold out initial print run\, the book is now available for pre-order. \n\n\n\nHer work centres on harnessing digital innovation to deepen engagement with African American history\, particularly through archival discovery. Whether developing interpretive tools in the museum context or designing precise metadata frameworks\, she strives to make Black history both accurate and engaging online. Dedicated to broadening access to cultural heritage\, they seek creative ways—digital and physical—to reconnect communities with their often displaced histories.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/how-users-imagine-archival-research/
LOCATION:Room 2.55\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:AI Ethics and the Future of Management Theory with Dr Ramsha Naeem
DESCRIPTION:The growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in organizational contexts underscores the need for interdisciplinary dialogue between AI ethics and management theory. This seminar explores how established management theories can be revisited and extended through ethical lenses. Building on Bleher and Braun’s (2023) framework—which articulates three ethical dimensions of AI: emotional\, justice\, and governance—we ask: How does AI reshape the emotional\, justice-related\, and governance assumptions embedded within management theories? Using a systematic literature review approach\, we critically evaluate the applicability of this framework to management research and propose an extended model that emphasizes relationality—where processes operate dynamically and interdependently. The seminar concludes by outlining propositions for future research and interdisciplinary collaboration across AI ethics and management. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ramsha Naeem\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ramsha Naeem is an Assistant Professor and Head of the MBA Program at the University of Central Punjab (UCP)\, Lahore\, Pakistan. Her research interests include diversity faultlines\, virtue ethics\, ethical leadership\, strategic HRM\, and digital transformation. She has published her work in peer-reviewed journals and presented at leading international conferences\, including the Academy of Management (AOM). Currently a Visiting Fellow at the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh\, she is investigating how AI reshapes employee thinking\, behavior\, and workplace dynamics\, and what ethical frameworks are needed to guide its adoption across cultural contexts in Pakistan and the UK.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-ethics-and-the-future-of-management-theory-with-dr-ramsha-naeem/
LOCATION:Room 2.55\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:CTMF Flagship Lecture: Wisdom for an Artificial Age
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Centre for Technomoral Futures (CTMF) Flagship Lecture\, where we will hear from Professor John P. Sullins (Sonoma State University) on\, ‘Wisdom for an Artificial Age.’ \n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence has confronted philosophy in five different intellectual wars\, wars that consumed philosophers and other thinkers as the technology of AI advanced from a mere idea to the headline-dominating technology that it is today. AI technologies have had a disruptive history that even their proponents have found concerning. Professor John P. Sullins will review this 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. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this thought-provoking event\, taking place on Wednesday\, 15th October 2025 at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and online. Doors open at 17.45. \n\n\n\nProfessor Sullins’ lecture will be followed by a reception. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but tickets are limited. Please register if you plan to attend. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\nProfessor John P. Sullins\n\n\n\nJohn P. Sullins is Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at Sonoma State University and co-director of the Sonoma State University Center for Ethics Law and Society (CELS). He is coauthor of the book Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence: The History and Legacy of the AI Wars (2nd ed. in 2026). His research includes AI ethics for security and defense as well as building ethical competency in robotics applications. He has published extensively on topics in the philosophy of technology\, philosophical issues of artificial intelligence and robotics. Professor Sullins is involved in industry and government consultation involving ethical practices in technology design and deployment. He was the co-author of IEEE Courses on Ethics\, AI\, and Autonomous Systems as well as chairing the committee on Affective Computing for the IEEE “Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.” He also co-chairs the IEEE Standards Committee P7008 – Standard for Ethically Driven Nudging for Robotic\, Intelligent and Autonomous Systems. \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. Online joining instructions will be posted on the Eventbrite\, and sent to virtual attendees on the day of the event. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let organisers know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ctmf-flagship-lecture-wisdom-for-an-artificial-age/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Who Owns the Future? Reimagining Education from AI to Abundant Imagination
DESCRIPTION:This public lecture\, hosted by the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, is part of the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series funded by the Robertson Endowment. \n\n\n\nFrom automated decision systems in healthcare\, policing\, education and more\, technologies have the potential to deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to harmful practices of a previous era. In this talk\, Ruha Benjamin takes us into the world of biased bots\, altruistic algorithms\, and their many entanglements\, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech predictions with historical and sociological insight. \n\n\n\nWhen it comes to AI\, Ruha shifts our focus from the dystopian and utopian narratives we are sold\, to a sober reckoning with the way these tools are already a part of our lives. In so doing\, she considers how higher education is ground zero for reimagining and retooling the default settings of technology and society. \n\n\n\nEvent Timings\n\n\n\nDrinks Reception (EFI Room 2.55) – 5pm – 5.30pm \n\n\n\nPresentation followed by Q&A – 5.30pm – 7pm \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\nRuha Benjamin is Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University\, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab\, and award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019)\, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022)\, and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024). Ruha is the recipient fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies\, National Science Foundation\, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award\, President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton\, and most recently the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. For more info\, visit www.ruhabenjamin.com
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/who-owns-the-future-reimagining-education-from-ai-to-abundant-imagination/
LOCATION:Room 2.55\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Inaugural lecture: Professor Oliver Escobar
DESCRIPTION:Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?\n\n\n\nWe are undergoing an unprecedented global democratic recession\, but also a period of democratic innovation. What is at the heart of this apparent contradiction? Can democracy evolve to improve the prospect of desirable futures for people and planet? \n\n\n\nThe world faces social\, political\, economic and ecological crises\, and there is doubt that traditional forms of democratic governance can cope or even survive. In this context\, what can the field of democratic innovation offer to the task of sociopolitical reimagining and change? The field is advancing globally\, based on the premise that the challenges of our time require mobilising the collective intelligence and capabilities of citizens and communities. \n\n\n\nIn this inaugural lecture\, Oliver Escobar will offer a critical but optimistic take on democratic innovation. He will argue that the next decade will be crucial for the future of democracy and for the democracy of the future. And that we all have a role to play. \n\n\n\nTimings: 5.15pm-6.30pm: Lecture in G.03\, 50 George Square. \n\n\n\nFollowed by a reception in the Chrystal Macmillan Building foyer until 7.30pm.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/inaugural-lecture-professor-oliver-escobar/
LOCATION:G.03 – 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LH
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Centre for Data\, Culture and Society (CDCS) Annual Lecture 2024 – Professor Alex Gil
DESCRIPTION:Event Title \n\n\n\nThe Point is Still To Change It: On Doing Better Than Best Practices in Data Work for Culture and Society \n\n\n\nEvent Description\n\n\n\nSo-called “Best Practices” in data work for culture and society are usually nothing of the sort. They assume a universal playing field which butts against the asymmetric nature of our cultures and societies. This is especially so in the case of the construction of our hybrid historical and cultural record – parts analog\, parts digital.  \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Alex Gil will present an overview of his participation in the construction of such a record of ‘best practices’ spanning over a decade of work in the intellectual space of the digital humanities\, and that corner of it that he has strived to nurture – the Caribbean digital humanities. Throughout this trajectory\, he has consistently encountered best practices that serve as little else than alibis for rigid hierarchies and the imposition of North Atlantic forms of being that take for granted rich computational infrastructures. In this event\, Professor Gil and attendees will together take a closer look at the concept of minimal computing\, nimble tents and pirate care\, all with a view argue that we can do better than ‘Best\,’ that in some cases\, we must. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Gil\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University\, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities\, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history\, digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments\, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record. He is currently senior editor of archipelagos journal\, co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital annual conference\, and co-principal investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/cdcs-annual-lecture-2024-professor-alex-gil/
LOCATION:Room 2.55\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government and Opposition
DESCRIPTION:Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture 2024 \n\n\n\nThe Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture is given annually in honour of Leonard Schapiro\, one of the journal’s founding editors. \n\n\n\nLaura Cram\, Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of the Neuropolitics Research Lab at the University of Edinburgh will be giving this year’s Schapiro Lecture for Government and Opposition on ‘A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government & Opposition’. Her analysis is of significant contemporary significance\, highlighting the challenges to good governance that obtain in often highly polarised decision environments. \n\n\n\nProfessor Cram’s lecture will be followed by an opportunity for audience questions and a further chance for conversation during the wine reception for attendees. \n\n\n\nThe event will be live-streamed on Thursday 14 November\, from 18:00-19:15 \n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis lecture examines the concepts of Government and Opposition from a neuropolitical perspective. The lecture will introduce neuropolitics and explore how insights from this psychophysiology and the cognitive neurosciences can help to illuminate the underlying mechanisms through which decisions and compromises are made\, or fail\, to be made in often polarized governing environments. Drawing together her decades of research on the European policy process and her lab’s current work on the neuropolitics of identity and decision-making\, Professor Cram will offer new insights into the implications of adversarial positioning of government and opposition\, for governance outcomes. \n\n\n\nSpeaker biography\n\n\n\nLaura Cram is Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of the Neuropolitics Research Lab(NRLabs) at the University of Edinburgh. Her lab uses experimental approaches\, including fMRI brain scanning\, face-emotion coding\, eye-tracking and biometric measures along with social computational approaches to get ‘under the hood’ of political attitudes\, identities and behaviours. She has also published widely on the European Union (EU) policy process and on EU identity. She held a Senior Fellowship on the Economic and Social Research Council’s UK in a Changing Europe programme\, explore the insights that cognitive neuroscience could offer into contemporary debates on the UK’s EU membership of the EU. She was a contributing author to the EU Commission’s 2019 study Understanding our Political Nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of political decision-making. She acted as Special Advisor to the Scottish Parliament’s\, European and External Relations Committee\, on the Inquiry into the Impact of the Treaty of Lisbon on Scotland. She has provided evidence to the Houses of Lords and Houses of Commons in the UK and works closely with industrial partners and government officials in her research. She has been cited in the New York Times\, Christian Science Monitor\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, Economist\, Financial Times\, Irish Times\, Telegraph\, the Conversation\, BBC\, Sky News\, Al Jazeera\, CNN\, International Associated Press. Her lab’s work has featured in BBC documentaries on the process of political decision-making. She was co-editor of Government and Opposition 2018-2024.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-neuropolitical-understanding-of-government-opposition-professor-laura-cram/
LOCATION:Informatics Forum\, The University of Edinburgh\, 10 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture of Professor Shannon Vallor
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nHer lecture is entitled\, ‘In a Mirror\, Dimly: Why AI Can’t Tell Our Stories\, and Why We Must’. \n\n\n\nThe event is open to the public and all colleagues\, friends and students are welcome to attend. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor 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.  \n\n\n\nProfessor 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.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/inaugural-lecture-of-professor-shannon-vallor/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:CTMF Flagship Lecture with Professor C. Thi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Value Capture and Algorithmic Policies: Outsourcing our Values to Technology\n\n\n\nJoin this Centre for Technomoral Futures Flagship Lecture event\, in person or online\, where you will gain valuable insights from award-winning author and philosopher\, Professor C. Thi Nguyen\, on technology’s role in shaping human values. \n\n\n\nAbstract: The values that govern our lives are increasingly explicit: defined by algorithms and institutions to be as clear\, precise and quantifiable as possible. Think of gamified point systems in apps like FitBit or Duolingo\, likes and shares on Twitter and TikTok\, and knowledge metrics like citation rates\, impact factors and pageviews. In this talk\, Professor Nguyen explores two dangers of adopting these values as our own: value capture and value collapse. In value capture\, we outsource the process of deciding what to value to some company or technology\, no longer adjusting our values in light of our own rich experience of the world. In value collapse\, overly explicit values make us closed-minded about what’s important in the world. Join us as Professor Nguyen invites a conversation about the value of values\, and how to keep them ours. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this thought-provoking event\, taking place on Friday 18 October at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and online. Doors open at 17.45. \n\n\n\nProfessor Nguyen’s lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but tickets are limited. Please register if you plan to attend.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ctmf-flagship-lecture-with-professor-c-thi-nguyen/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Governance for a secure digital world
DESCRIPTION:Ensuring the safety of our information infrastructures is a huge challenge that involves human\, legal\,  and technical cooperation at a global scale. The rise of new technology\, especially AI\, poses great challenges for the development of effective law and regulation. In this session we have a perspective from law and social science from the University of Edinburgh’s leading scholar of law and cybersecurity\, Gavin Sullivan\, and a visiting researcher from Toronto\, Jamie Duncan. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nDr Gavin Sullivan\n\n\n\nGavin Sullivan joined the University of Edinburgh in 2021. His research focuses on the politics of global security law\, technology and rights using socio-legal and ethnographic methods. Gavin’s research interests include international organisations and collective security; algorithmic governance\, accountability and international human rights; transnational and informal law\, global pluralism and constitutionalism; counterterrorism and preemptive security. In 2020 Gavin was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for his socio-legal research project\, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures\, Artificial Intelligence and International Law (2021 – 2028).  He leads an interdisciplinary team of scholars in international law\, anthropology\, socio-legal studies\, computer science and security studies to examine how AI-led security\, and the data infrastructures that sustain it\, are reshaping global security law\, rights and accountability and security decision-making. Gavin has worked widely as an expert consultant on counterterrorism issues\, including for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He is a member of the ‘Transparency’ and ‘Legal Frameworks’ working groups of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism\, co-covenor of the ESIL International Law and Technology Interest Group and on the Editorial Committee of the journal\, Transnational Legal Theory. Gavin’s book – The Law of the List: UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law(Cambridge University Press\, 2020) – was awarded the 2021 International Studies Association STAIR Book Award for research bringing STS into dialogue with global politics. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-gavin-sullivan \n\n\n\nJamie Duncan\n\n\n\nJamie Duncan is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. He is a fellow of Massey College and the Schwartz-Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Jamie is an interdisciplinary social scientist studying information policy\, technology governance\, and security. His work has appeared in academic journals like The British Journal of Criminology and Internet Policy Review as well as popular outlets like The Globe and Mail. Jamie’s doctoral research investigates the role of technology adoption in deepening international cooperation on border security among the Five Eyes partners (Australia\, Canada\, New Zealand\, the United Kingdom\, and United States). This work is supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship in Honour of Nelson Mandela. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://www.jamieduncan.ca/
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/governance-for-a-secure-digital-world/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Protecting the State\, Protecting our Homes: governing and designing cybersecurity
DESCRIPTION:As our society has become increasingly dependent on information infrastructures that reach into our pockets\, homes and workplaces\, we have become increasing vulnerable to attacks on and through these systems. Cybersecurity is perhaps one of the most important modern threats that we don’t talk enough about. Adversaries range from specialist military government teams attacking infrastructure and penetrating state organisations\, or managing large scale organised theft of commercial secrets\,  state sponsored and commercial criminal groups that are stealing personal data\, run ransomware attacks on hospitals and business\, through to teenage hackers doing simple denial of service attacks on their friends\, or even spying via home webcams.  Why do our systems have these vulnerabilities? How can we improve legal\, technical and human dimensions of design and use to ensure future protection and resilience? \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lachlan Urquhart\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lachlan Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at the Edinburgh Law School. He is Founder and Director of the Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab. He is a Director of both the Centre for Research into Information\, Surveillance\, and Privacy (CRISP) and the Scottish Research Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT). He is part of the management team of the Designing Responsible NLP Centre for Doctoral Training\, and the Institute of Design Informatics.  His monograph\, Clever Computing through Accountable Design\, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Lachlan has published over 60 papers in leading venues in computing\, law\, and ethics. He has been an investigator on projects totalling nearly £17m. He is currently Principal Investigator of the £1.2m EPSRC ‘Fixing the Future: Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’ project and is Co-Investigator on the £9.75m Responsible Natural Language Processing AI CDT; the £3.2m EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance Node\, and various projects in the EPSRC Horizon Trusted Data Driven Products hub. He was also investigator on the now completed ESRC Emotional AI in Smart Cities project \, EPSRC Defence Against Dark Artefacts and TAS Hub Envisioning Biometric AI Futures project. \n\n\n\nHis main research interests are in the socio-technical aspects of designing\, living with\, and regulating emerging information technologies. He has a multidisciplinary background in computer science (PhD) and law (LL.B; LL.M) and has studied at the Universities of Edinburgh\, Strathclyde\, and Nottingham. He is an editor on the Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series. He is a Visiting Researcher at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute and member of the international Emotional AI Lab. He has been a visiting scientist at Fraunhofer AICOS\, Porto (2021); a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2020-22)\, a Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Centre\, Universitá degli Studi di Milano (2022-23)\, and a visiting researcher at Centre for Business Information Ethics\, Meiji University\, Tokyo (2014). At Edinburgh\, he was the Law School lead for the Centre for Data\, Culture\, and Society 2019-2023; and is a research associate at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Tariq Elahi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTariq Elahi received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and was fortunate to have Ian Goldberg as his supervisor. His thesis centered on censorship resistance systems and analyses of their security and privacy properties. He received his MSc from Royal Holloway – University of London under the supervision of Kenny Paterson where he investigated anonymous communications and file sharing systems. He researches computer and network security and privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) with an emphasis on effective\, efficient\, and robust deployments. His research has\, and continues to\, span the systematization and the game-theoretic analysis of censorship resistance and circumvention systems\, security analysis and designs of anonymous communication systems\, and privacy-preserving data collection in privacy-sensitive scenarios. He is interested in novel applications and enhancements to PETs techniques and strategies to exotic environments\, such as Smart Cities where standard trust and availability assumptions need not apply.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/protecting-the-state-protecting-our-homes-governing-and-designing-cybersecurity/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:AI Safety and AI Ethics: bridging cultures of existential and social risk
DESCRIPTION:2023 was undoubtedly the year of ‘AI’ – when we were all amazed by the capabilities of ChatGTP and image generators\, and stories of existential risks filled the media. This narrative seemed to be pushed by the very people who had invested most in developing Large Language Models\, and were interlinked with the ideology of Effective Altruism. The concept of AI Safety rose to the top of the political agenda. However\, concern about\, and research on how AI could be developed and used responsibly has a long history. In 2023 the EU passed the AI Act\, which was conceived well before current Generative AI as a framework for governance of risks and harms\, while promoting innovation. Edinburgh University has become a leading centre for research on AI Ethics – a paradigm lead by philosophers\, rather than one lead by computer scientists and engineers\, and emphasises social risks and harms – rather than civilisation destroying harms. However by the end of 2023\, the real life requirements of business for robust systems\, oversight by government concerned about weapons\, jobs\, fundamental rights and international power struggles have moved the focus of AI Safety towards practical concerns. In these talks we will hear about how and why existential risk became such a headline grabbing topic\, and understand how some ways we can start the hard work of bridging the responsible AI\, AI Ethics and AI safety paradigms. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nDr Atoosa Kasirzadeh\n\n\n\nDr Atoosa Kasirzadeh is a philosopher\, mathematician\, and systems engineer at the University of Edinburgh. She is an Assistant Professor (Chancellor’s Fellow) in the Philosophy Department\, Director of Research at the Centre for Technomoral Futures\, and a Research Lead at the Alan Turing Institute. Prior to this\, she held research positions at DeepMind and Australian National University.  \n\n\n\nShe has a PhD in Philosophy of Science and Technology (2021) from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Mathematics (2015) from the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. Her current research is focused on ethics\, safety\, and philosophy of AI (value alignment\, interpretability\, generative models\, recommender systems) and philosophy of science (explanation\, prediction\, complex systems\, automating science).  \n\n\n\nWebsite https://kasirzadeh.org/  \n\n\n\nDr Vassilis Galanos\n\n\n\nDr Vassilis Galanos is a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at the Edinburgh College of Art\, conducting a risk-based assessment of Generative AI in journalism as part of the BRAID UK initiative and teaching about Technology Futures. Vassilis investigates the historical and sociological underpinnings of interwoven AI and internet technologies\, and how expertise and expectations are negotiated in these domains. Vassilis is Associate Editor of Technology Analysis and Strategic Management and prospective Lecturer in Digital Work at the University of Stirling’s School of Management. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/vassilis-galanos 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-safety-and-ai-ethics-bridging-cultures-of-existential-and-social-risk/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240202T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240202T173000
DTSTAMP:20260426T180529
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SUMMARY:Climate Extremes and Decision-making: it's all about the models
DESCRIPTION:Prediction of the impacts of climate change is one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity\, crucial tools that will support policy\, business and civil society in planning mitigations – everything from the pricing of insurance to building community resilience and the speed of decarbonisation. Just as in the work done to demonstrate human impacts on the climate\, much of the heavy-lifting falls on the creation of predictive computer models that integrate scientific evidence. However for predictions of the impact of climate change and the actions we might take requires models that are not only about the science\, but also about the economic and social impact – so that policy makers\, politicians\, companies and citizens can debate resources and make trade-offs. This makes them inherently the site of controversy. \n\n\n\nIn this session two eminent scientists\, Prof Chris Dent and Prof Gabi Hegerl will explore the science\, maths\, and computing that makes these models possible and discuss what they can and cannot do\, how much we need them\, and how much we can or cannot rely on them. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nProf Chris Dent\n\n\n\nChris Dent is Professor of Industrial Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh\, and a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He has broad interests across energy and infrastructure analysis\, climate resilience\, and decision support in public policy. He currently works on a number of industrial innovation projects\, and holds a KE Catalyst grant from the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences to support the Global Power System Transformation consortium with their research agenda in system planning\, control rooms\, and AI. In 2021-2  he was Technical Lead for the National Digital Twin programme Climate Resilience Demonstrator. As well as working in a School of Mathematics\, he is also a Chartered Engineer. \n\n\n\nProf Gabi Hegerl\n\n\n\nGabi Hegerl is a Professor in Climate Change Science\, School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. She is Fellow of the Royal Society\, the Leopoldina\, the Royal Society of Edinburgh\, and of the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society. She has received the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award and the Hans Sigrist Prize of the University of Bern.  She co-leads the World Climate Research Programme lighthouse activity ‘safe landing climates‘; and has co-led their Grand Challenge on Extremes. She researches causes of climate change\, including in temperature and precipitation\, from the recent period to the last millennium\, and has used this evidence to constrain future climate change\, with a special interest in climate extremes\, for example\, heat waves\, compound extremes and impacts of extremes.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/climate-extremes-and-decision-making-its-all-about-the-models/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240126T173000
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SUMMARY:Quantification of Labour: from the factory to the gig economy
DESCRIPTION:The use of science and technology to optimise the output of workers for the profit of business is not a new phenomenon. For this session we welcome two sociologists who work on the quantification of the body and worker\, Dr Mark Patterson\, and Dr Karen Gregory. Dr Patterson will explore the history of measurement of the workers’ health and bodies which fed in the Scientific Management of the early 20th Century. The digital management of workers through standardised platforms again came to the fore with the emergence of the ‘gig economy’ after the 2008 economic crisis. Optimisation of gig economy work is at the basis of their business model\,  but the workers have little say in how data about activities is used to calculate\, control and punish them. Dr Karen Gregory explores the potential for ‘worker data science’ to resit and challenge the hidden decisions of the platforms they work on.  As we all become ‘platform’ workers\, how can we we call take back of data to collectively improve our working conditions? \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nDr Mark Paterson\, Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh\n\n\n\nMark Paterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has an interest in the history and science of bodily sensation\, blindness\, and technologies of the senses. Along with articles published in humanities and social science journals\, he is author of books including The Senses of Touch: Haptics\, Affects and Technologies (2007)\, Seeing with the Hands: Blindness\, Vision and Touch After Descartes (2016)\, How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement\, Measurement\, Sensation (2021)\, and co-editor of Touching Place\, Spacing Touch (2012). His research website is sensory-motor.com.  He was an IASH-SSPS Research Fellow\, from September – December 2022. \n\n\n\nWebsite: sensory-motor.com  \n\n\n\nDr Karen Gregory\, Dept of Sociology\, University of Edinburgh\n\n\n\nKaren Gregory is  digital sociologist\, ethnographer\, and Programme Co-Director of the MSc in Digital Sociology.  She is a leading researcher in the field of work in the digital age\, specialising both in the work of delivery drivers in the platform economy\, and of academics in the contemporary university.   Her recent work explores ‘Worker Data Science’\, how workers’ collectives are attempting to take back control of their work by collecting and using information about their own working patterns. She is currently co-lead the Digital Social Science Research Cluster at the Center for Data\, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Cultural Economy. Before coming to Edinburgh\, she was a lecturer at The City College of New York\, where she developed and ran The City Lab @ The Center for Worker Education. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/karen-gregory 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/quantification-of-labour-from-the-factory-to-the-gig-economy/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231213T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231213T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T180529
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SUMMARY:CDCS Annual Lecture 2023
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\n\n\nIn “How to See What’s Missing”\, artist and scholar Mary Flanagan discusses the investigation of artificial intelligence and machine learning and a groundbreaking use-case scenario of an image-making feminist AI. The project draws critical attention not only to the aesthetics of AI but the thorny biases behind technological learning systems and artworks\, and calls into question whose art is accessible after all. The talk will highlight human cognitive biases as well\, and speculate as to the equivalencies in the systems we build. A key aspect in interrogating AI\, underrepresentation\, and the arts lies within art archives\, and Flanagan’s journey creating training data and discussing the work with scientists deeply informs the project.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\nMary Flanagan is a hyperdisciplinary researcher\, designer and artist who uses games\, algorithms\, and play systems as tools for participation and discovery.  Her practice is speculative and engages with possibilities: political\, sustainable\, radical\, and playful. She is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship\, the Thoma Foundation 2018 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art\, and commissions with the British Arts Council\, the National Academy of Sciences\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, and Rice University. Flanagan has lectured widely including at Oxford\, Cornell\, Columbia\, Harvard\, and the Sorbonne and has been a John Paul Getty Museum Scholar\, a Senior Scholar in Residence at the Cornell Society for the Humanities\, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar\, Jackman Humanities Institute\, University of Toronto. In 2016 she received an Honoris Causa in Design\, Illinois Institute of Technology\, and in 2019 named a Distinguished Scholar by the Digital Games Research Association. Her work has also been supported by the National Science Foundation\, National Institute of Justice\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Institute of Museum and Library Services\, the British Arts Council\, and the Tate. With six scholarly books\, over fifty essays and chapters\, arts books\, and a collection of poetry to her credit\, Flanagan is a thought leader sought for thinktanks such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Center for Future Design in Linz. She is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College and leads the design research laboratory Tiltfactor.org
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/cdcs-annual-lecture-2023/
LOCATION:West Court\, Edinburgh College of Art\, 74 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9DF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231207T210000
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SUMMARY:Governing the AI Business Model: Platforms All the Way Down?
DESCRIPTION:Come along to the Centre for Technomoral Future’s Flagship Lecture\, where you’ll hear from Dr Michael Veale on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that stem from digital technologies. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this thought-provoking event\, taking place on Thursday\, December 7th 2023 at West Court in Edinburgh College of Art Main Building in Edinburgh and online. Doors open at 17.45. \n\n\n\nDr Veale’s lecture will be followed by a reception in the Sculpture Court. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but tickets are limited. Please register if you plan to attend. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\nDr Michael Veale is Associate Professor in digital rights and regulation\, and Vice-Dean (Education Innovation) at University College London’s Faculty of Laws. His research focusses on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that digital technologies and their users create and exacerbate\, in areas such as privacy-enhancing technologies and machine learning. This work is regularly cited by legislators\, regulators and governments\, and Dr Veale has consulted for a range of policy organisations including the Royal Society and British Academy\, the Law Society of England and Wales\, the European Commission\, the Commonwealth Secretariat. Dr Veale holds a PhD from UCL\, a MSc from Maastricht University and a BSc from LSE. He tweets at @mikarv.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/governing-the-ai-business-model-platforms-all-the-way-down/
LOCATION:West Court\, Edinburgh College of Art\, 74 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9DF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T190000
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SUMMARY:Dr Runa Mackay Legacy Lecture | Compassion And Justice: Conversations For Wellbeing Economy
DESCRIPTION:During her long life Edinburgh medical graduate Dr Runa Mackay campaigned for peace and justice. She worked in Nazareth in northern Israel\, in South Lebanon and in the West Bank. She protested with CND and Women in Black\, was active in the Iona Community and raised funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. \n\n\n\nIn this lecture Dr Katherine Trebeck\, a writer-at-large at the Edinburgh Futures Institute of the University of Edinburgh\, co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance\, and member of the Club of Rome\, will honour Runa’s life and legacy. Katherine will explore the concept of a wellbeing economy. She will reflect on how it is not enough to be right in our diagnosis of a problem\, or satisfied by the necessity of our vision for change. Instead the times we face today demand that those working for change\, move beyond the ‘us and them’ approaches to engage in compassionate conversations that build bridges\, understanding\, and shared visions of a better tomorrow. This was how Runa lived her life.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-runa-mackay-legacy-lecture-compassion-and-justice-conversations-for-wellbeing-economy/
LOCATION:Martin Hall\, New College\, The University of Edinburgh\, Mound Place\, Edinburgh\, EH1 2LX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T203000
DTSTAMP:20260426T180529
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Reforms: regulatory frameworks for driving growth and competitiveness
DESCRIPTION:In this joint event held with the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations and the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Sheldon Mills\, Executive Director\, Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority will speak on the regulatory issues emanating from the implementation of the UK government’s vision for an internationally competitive and innovative financial services sector in the UK. \n\n\n\nOn a visit to Edinburgh in December 2022\, the Chancellor of the Exchequer\, Jeremy Hunt\, unveiled the ‘Edinburgh Reforms’\, a package of policy measures conceived to advance the UK government’s vision for a sustainable\, open\, technologically advanced\, and globally competitive financial services sector. In addition to an ambitious set of proposals to reform the UK system of financial services and markets regulatory architecture\, they also include plans for a repeal and replacement of legacy EU financial services legislation\, thus potentially leading to further divergence from EU law. Therefore\, when fully implemented\, the reforms will encapsulate the most significant change to financial services and markets regulation in the UK since the introduction of the Financial Services and Markets Act in 2000. \n\n\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority plays a central role in the delivery of the Edinburgh Reforms\, a point underscored by the issuance of new remit letters to it and the Prudential Regulation Authority by Mr Hunt one day ahead of the unveiling of the reforms; the letter to the FCA sets out “clear\, (and) targeted recommendations”on how the Financial Conduct Authority may support the government’s objectives on economic growth and international competitiveness of the UK. \n\n\n\nIn this public lecture\, Sheldon Mills\, Executive Director\, Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority will address these issues in the context of the Financial Conduct Authority’s primary objectives of protecting consumers from bad conduct\, protecting the integrity of the UK financial system\, and promoting effective competition in the interests of consumers. \n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Professor Gbenga Ibikunle\, Chair of Finance and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-reforms-regulatory-frameworks-for-driving-growth-and-competitiveness/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Business School\, The University of Edinburgh\, 29 Buccleuch Place\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Financial Services & FinTech,Lecture
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