In the seminar, Ben Collier will introduce the new book, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (MIT Press, 2024).
ChatGPT and the other new advances in artificial intelligence have the potential to change work, education, and even what it means to “think” in the first place. In this talk, Professor David Williamson Shaffer looks at what AI is (and isn’t), its impact on what and how we learn, and how AI can change what ... Read more
To what extent can human creators exercise control on the technological tools they are using? And how does the control that technology exerts on them influence the creative process?
Dr Petko Kalev discusses why resiliency is an important dimension of market liquidity. For University staff and students only.
Hear a project deep dive from Ursula Martin on Imagining AI: computing stories in a museum context.
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?
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.
Hear about some of the latest research and engagement projects led by the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster members, make new connections and get inspired.
Our panel of artists, curators, and researchers explores how data-driven art raises new ethical provocations for curation and exhibition.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this Future Tense event features Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
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.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, join Shetland-born author James Crawford as he talks about his latest work, Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland.
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.
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.
Speculative Futures Central Scotland is delighted to invite you to an in-person evening event about Futures Boardgames.
Fintech Scotland Festival will take place between 25 September 2024 and 04 October 2024 across Scotland.
Explore how automation and artificial intelligence could run the back office of your tourism or hospitality business.
This talk discusses work carried out at the NEMUS project on the topic of digital conservation of historic stringed instruments.
A panel event featuring author Jeanette Winterson, robotics expert Ingo Keller, and advanced humanoid robot Ameca.
A project deep dive by James Baker, Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton.
A conversation with award-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about arts provision in the education system, the importance of creativity in young people, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.
As part of Black History Month, this event will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education.
The intersecting, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe, widening inequalities, conflict, pathogen spillovers, new diseases, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be, and what we need it to do.
Part of the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
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