Recycling a Hospital with Edinburgh Future’s Institute
National Library of Scotland EdinburghCreativeMornings Edinburgh invites you to join a conversation with the team behind the Recycling A Hospital project at Edinburgh Futures Institute.
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Project Deep Dive: Justin Chun-ting Ho
Online EdinburghJoin the Centre for Data, Culture and Society for their first Project Deep Dive of the semester ‘Image and Text Analysis using Multi-modal Embeddings’ presented by Justin Chun-ting Ho.
Music, Copyright & Generative AI: Social, Ontological & Legal Perspectives
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomJoin MusAI and The New Real to delve into the intriguing intersection of artificial intelligence and music copyright.
Free
Project Deep Dive: Anja Neundorf
Online EdinburghJoin the Centre for Data, Culture & Society and the Social Data Science Hub for a Project Deep Dive presented by Anja Neundorf, professor of Politics and Research Methods at the University of Glasgow.
Free
Project Deep Dive: Sruthi Herbert
Digital Scholarship Centre Main Library, University of Edinburgh, EdinburghThe CDCS Project Deep Dive series continues with ‘Digitization for Social Welfare: Examining the Building and Other Construction Workers' (BOCW) Welfare Funds in India’ presented by Dr Sruthi Herbert.
Compassion & Transforming the Economy: Merging the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’
Online EdinburghJoin us for a live-stream of this conversation hosted by Professor Liz Grant and Dr Katherine Trebeck, University of Edinburgh.
Datafied Publics: Inaugural Event for EFI Critical Data Studies Cluster
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis event asks how people politically mobilise when subject to data systems that algorithmically govern them but remain opaque.
Tech Tuesdays: The Future of Technology in Hospitality, Finance & Payments
Dovecot Studios 10 Infirmary Street, EdinburghThis event marks the launch of Tech Tuesdays, a new series dedicated to making sense of technology within the tourism, travel, and hospitality industries.
Project Deep Dive: Sal Hagen
Online EdinburghJoin the Centre for Data, Culture & Society for a Project Deep Dive presented by Sal Hagen, University of Amsterdam.
Technomoral Conversations: Who is Responsible for Responsible AI?
Playfair Library Hall Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe Technomoral Conversations series brings together leading experts in a “fireside chat” format to discuss futures that are worth wanting.
Book Launch: Environmental Ethics & Medical Reproduction by Cristina Richie
Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square 50 George Square, Newington, Edinburgh, United KingdomIn her book Richie evaluates medical reproduction from an environmental perspective & confronts the carbon impact of the healthcare industry.
Book Launch – Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
High School Yards Teaching Centre, Classroom 2 57 High School Yards, Edinburgh, United KingdomIn the seminar, Ben Collier will introduce the new book, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (MIT Press, 2024).
Project Deep Dive: David Williamson Shaffer
Digital Scholarship Centre Main Library, University of Edinburgh, EdinburghChatGPT 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
Creative Feedback: The Feats and Failures of Technology
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomTo 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?
Liquidity and execution: The resiliency effect on institutional trading costs
Room 1.60, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom +1 moreDr Petko Kalev discusses why resiliency is an important dimension of market liquidity. For University staff and students only.
Imagining AI: computing stories in a museum context
Research Suite – 6th Floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library 30 George Square, EdinburghHear a project deep dive from Ursula Martin on Imagining AI: computing stories in a museum context.
Where are AI’s publics?
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomWhat 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?
How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of AI
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh 2 Blenheim Place, EdinburghJoin 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.
Digital Cultural Heritage at Edinburgh Futures Institute: Research Exchange
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomHear about some of the latest research and engagement projects led by the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster members, make new connections and get inspired.
Ethical responsibilities in displaying provocative AI artistic experiences
Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Room G.03 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomOur panel of artists, curators, and researchers explores how data-driven art raises new ethical provocations for curation and exhibition.
Margaret Atwood: Practical Utopias – An Exploration of the Possible
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart 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
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart 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.
James Crawford: Traces of the Past
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart 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.
Words from the Wards: Jennifer Williams
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart 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.
