Edinburgh Futures Institute Guided Tours – Meadows Festival Weekend
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomEnjoy a guided tour to mark the opening of the Edinburgh Futures Institute building.
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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?
AI as the Broken Machine
Playfair Library Hall Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomJoin this one-day symposium on 'Artificial Intelligence as the Broken Machine' with invited keynote speaker Prof. Louise Amoore.
CDCS Summer School 2024
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomJoin the Centre for Data, Culture & Society for their 5-day Summer School.
The Creative AI Forum
The Boardwalk 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, United KingdomThis event will showcase the potential for AI in the creative industries.
TikTok: Work, Time, and Play in a Platform Economy
Lister Learning and Teaching Centre 5 Roxburgh Place, EdinburghTikTok: Work, Time, and Play in a Platform Economy brings together papers that analyse emerging digital visual culture(s) and aesthetics through critical platform analyses.
Economics of Financial Technology Conference
Auditorium, Business School, The University of Edinburgh 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis conference will share new insights and discuss the economic issues related to the application of technology within finance in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
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.
Designing Data and Innovation Futures to Wear
Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EFJoin us to explore the future of sustainable technology through design, engineering, and finance.
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.
Creative Tech Scotland Gathering
Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, EdinburghAn exciting day of cutting-edge creative tech keynotes, demos, and panels, with workshops and a closing reception with an interactive performance!
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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.
Citizens Data Agency Exhibition Opening Event
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomJoin us to explore the Citizens Data Agency, a fictional service provider proposing five speculative data support services.
AI as a creative companion for academia
St Leonard's Hall 18 Holyrood Park Road, EdinburghAnthropic’s workshops aim to show the Fringe community how AI assistants can help with burdensome tasks, and to hear your feedback as we all shape the future of this technology together.
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.
Practical Utopias: Workshop
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this workshop will get you thinking about how the future can inspire and influence our present.
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.
Page Against the Machine: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this event invites writers and readers to ask: who truly benefits from the current AI explosion?
Recycling a Hospital Writing Workshop: Poetry, Memory and Future Dreaming
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this writing workshop explores how poetry can be a portal for our memories of the old Royal Infirmary.
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.
A Conversation about the Edinburgh Conversations
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomFrom 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.
The Digital Museum Conference
What is the relationship between the digital and the museum? This question is at the heart of this 2-day conference.
Speculative Futures Meet-Up #3: Futures Boardgames
South Block 60-64 Osborne Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomSpeculative Futures Central Scotland is delighted to invite you to an in-person evening event about Futures Boardgames.
FinTech Scotland Festival
Fintech Scotland Festival will take place between 25 September 2024 and 04 October 2024 across Scotland.
Annual Data Conference 2024: Data, Deepfakes and Democracy
Hear from experts on these and a range of other issues around the complex interplay between artificial intelligence, data and democracy.
The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
