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SUMMARY:The Violence Prevention Forum: A Dialogical Approach to Multi-Sectoral Engagement to Prevent Violence in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to extend an invitation to you to join us for a talk by Dr Chandré Gould\, hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute in partnership with Moray House College of Education. Chandré is a senior research fellow in the Justice and Violence Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa. She has thirty years of research and advocacy experience addressing all forms of violence and its prevention. Since 2015\, Chandré has convened and led the Violence Prevention Forum\, a national dialogue platform for researchers\, government officials\, development partners\, the private sector and NGOs to develop a sustainable basis for using and generating evidence to inform the prevention of violence in South Africa. The collaborative and multi-sectoral approach to violence prevention is very relevant to those working and studying in fields such as public policy\, public health\, justice and policing\, and will have resonance with anyone seeking to understand how a collective undertaking and long-term partnership is utilised to address a significant societal challenge. \n\n\n\nGuest speaker\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Chandré Gould\,  Institute for Security Studies\, South Africa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConvener of the Violence Prevention Forum (www.violence-prevention.org). Author and editor of books and numerous papers on crime and criminal justice in South Africa; biological weapons control; South Africa’s apartheid chemical and biological weapons programme; small arms control and human trafficking. \n\n\n\nLinkedin \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n11:20 -11:30 Tea and coffee on arrival11:30 -13:00WelcomePresentation by Dr Chandré GouldCollective discussion13:00Close
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-violence-prevention-forum-a-dialogical-approach-to-multi-sectoral-engagement-to-prevent-violence-in-south-africa/
LOCATION:Room G.07\, Informatics Forum\, The University of Edinburgh\, 10 Crichton Street\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Public Services,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Galvanised: Big Mind – Collective Behaviour and Collective Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:This Galvanised seminar addresses the opportunities that collective behaviour and collective intelligence may offer for addressing a wide range of social and political issues. In keeping with the dual science/arts theme of Galvanised\, the seminar will be presented by a biological scientist and a social and political scientist. Collective behaviour evolved in animals and serves many functions ranging from increasing safety (fish schooling) through to attachment (such as in primate groups). In humans\, collective intelligence has been shown\, experimentally\, to solve certain problems much faster than individual action\, strikingly in Riley Crane’s successful crowd-sourcing framework that won the Red Balloon challenge set by DARPA in 2009. New collective intelligence methods are increasingly and widely used in science\, business and government\, sometimes combined with artificial intelligence. Many other examples of the concept of “Big Mind” will be offered by our two speakers\, along with the limitations of such approaches. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Iain Couzin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Iain Couzin was born and brought up in Edinburgh. He is now a Director of the Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the Cluster of Excellence ‘Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour’ (University of Konstanz)\, a National Geographic Explorer and a 2023 Rothschild Distinguished Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective behaviour\, and consequently his research includes the study of a wide range of biological systems\, from neural collectives to insect swarms\, fish schools\, primate groups and human crowds. He has been the recipient of various high-profile awards. In 2022 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize—Germany’s highest research honour. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Sir Geoff Mulgan\n\n\n\n\nAccordion content. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Sir Geoff Mulgan (University College London) argues that collective intelligence\, prompted in part by a wave of digital technologies\, has the potential to address and perhaps help solve some of the great challenges of our time. He served as Director of Policy and later as Director of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in Downing Street under Tony Blair\, and before that as the co-founder of the Demos ‘Think-Tank’. He was Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)\, advises governments around the world\, and is now a Professor at UCL. He is an editor in chief of the journal Collective Intelligence. His most recent book is ‘Another World is Possible’ (Hurst/OUP) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \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 us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/galvanised-big-mind-collective-behaviour-and-collective-intelligence/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023,Public Services,Tourism & Festivals
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SUMMARY:Rule of the Robots: A Conversation with Martin Ford
DESCRIPTION:AI is impossible to avoid online. If you have a smartphone\, you have AI in your pocket. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how you interact with friends or read the news. But in Rule of the Robots\, Martin Ford argues that the true revolution is yet to come. \n\n\n\nIn this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots\, Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology that is altering every dimension of human life\, often for the better. For example\, advanced science is being done by machines\, solving devilish problems in molecular biology that humans could not\, and AI can help us fight climate change or the next pandemic. It also has a capacity for profound harm. Deep fakes – AI-generated audio or video of events that never happened – are poised to cause havoc throughout society. AI empowers authoritarian regimes like China with unprecedented mechanisms for social control. And AI can be deeply biased\, learning bigoted attitudes from us and perpetuating them. \n\n\n\nIn short\, this is not a technology to simply embrace\, or let others worry about. The machines are coming\, and each of us needs to know what that means if we are to thrive in the twenty-first century. Rule of the Robots is the essential guide to all of it: both AI and the future of our economy\, our politics\, our lives. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Ford\n\n\n\n\nMartin Ford is a futurist and the author of four books: Rule of the Robots\, Rise of the Robots\, winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015\, Architects of Intelligence\, and The Lights in the Tunnel. He is also the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/rule-of-the-robots-a-conversation-with-martin-ford/
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