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SUMMARY:AI as the Broken Machine
DESCRIPTION:AI Ethics & Society is excited to announce the 2024 symposium ‘AI as the Broken Machine’\, sponsored by The Edinburgh Futures Institute\, the Algorithmic Societies research group at Durham University\, and the Centre for Technomoral Futures. \n\n\n\nThe symposium will explore brokenness\, care\, and repair in the age of AI\, offering perspectives on the inclusion of marginalised epistemologies and expertise\, modes of refusal and methods to critically interrogate emerging technologies such as generative AI. \n\n\n\nOur three panels address themes of margins\, data patchwork and justice; error\, uncertainty and categorisation; and care\, repair and craft. \n\n\n\nInvited Keynote Speaker: Prof. Louise Amoore (Durham University) \n\n\n\nInvited panellists include: Alex Taylor (University of Edinburgh)\, Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh)\, Anne Lee Steele (Alan Turing Institute)\, Alex Campolo (Durham University)\, Cindy Lin (Pennsylvania State University)\, Ben Jacobsen (Durham University)\,Natassa Philimonos (University of Edinburgh)\, Morgan Currie (University of Edinburgh)\, and Srravya Chandhiramowuli (University of Edinburgh). \n\n\n\nThe symposium is free to attend and will include a catered lunch\, tea\, coffee and pastries.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-as-the-broken-machine/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:Technomoral Conversations: Who is Responsible for Responsible AI?
DESCRIPTION:Taking inspiration from the Edinburgh Declaration on Responsibility for Responsible AI\, this conversation will look at what matters most when we talk about ‘Responsible AI’ and responsibility for autonomous systems. Together\, we will discuss what it will take to make the framing of Responsible AI meaningful and conducive to real change in the AI ecosystem. \n\n\n\nDuring the event\, there will be an opportunity to get involved in the conversation (both in person and online). Featuring Rachel Coldicutt (Careful Industries)\, Dr Rhianne Jones (BBC R&D\, BRAID Programme)\, Dr Jack Stilgoe (UCL) and Steph Wright (Scottish AI Alliance)\, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss! \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nProfessor Shannon Vallor (chair): Professor Shannon Vallor holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy. She is Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, and co-Director of the UKRI BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme. Professor Vallor’s research explores the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and AI\, and how these technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character. She is a former AI Ethicist at Google\, and advises numerous academic\, government and industry bodies on the ethical design and use of AI. She is the author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, and The AI Mirror (Oxford University Press\, 2024). \n\n\n\nRachel Coldicutt: Rachel Coldicutt is a researcher and strategist specialising in the social impact of new and emerging technologies. She is founder and executive director of research consultancy Careful Industries and its sister social enterprise Promising Trouble. She was previously founding CEO of responsible technology think tank Doteveryone where she led influential and ground-breaking research into how technology is changing society and developed practical tools for responsible innovation. Prior to that\, she spent almost 20 years working at the cutting edge of new technology for companies including the BBC\, Microsoft\, BT\, and Channel 4\, and was a pioneer in the digital art world. Rachel is an advisor\, board member and trustee for a number of companies and charities and\, from 2020-2023\, served as a non-executive director at Ofcom. In 2019\, Rachel was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours for services for the digital society. \n\n\n\nSteph Wright: Steph Wright has a diverse background ranging from astrophysics to genomics in academia and film & TV to dance in the arts and the third sector. A project and programme management professional\, she loves to develop and build collaborations across organisations to help people with their data/AI journey. Steph led on The Data Lab’s efforts in support of the Scottish Government in developing Scotland’s AI Strategy and she’s now leading on the delivery of the strategy’s vision for Scotland to be a leader in the development and use of trustworthy\, ethical and inclusive AI as Head of Scottish AI Alliance. She is also Co-Founder of Diverse AI and was recognised as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2023 and one of the Top 10 Women in Tech in Scotland in 2023. \n\n\n\nDr Jack Stilgoe: Dr Jack Stilgoe is a professor in science and technology studies at University College London\, where he researches the governance of emerging technologies. He is part of the UKRI Responsible AI leadership team. He was principal investigator of the ESRC Driverless Futures project (2019-2022). He worked with EPSRC and ESRC to develop a framework for responsible innovation that is now being used by the Research Councils. Among other publications\, he is the author of ‘Who’s Driving Innovation?’ (2020\, Palgrave) and ‘Experiment Earth: Responsible innovation in geoengineering’ (2015\, Routledge). He previously worked in science and technology policy at the Royal Society and the think tank Demos. He is a fellow of the Turing Institute and a trustee of the Royal Institution. \n\n\n\nDr Rhianne Jones: Dr Rhianne Jones’ work focuses on ensuring emerging technology and uses of data support public service media values and a healthy media and information ecosystem. As a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow\, Rhianne is establishing and leading a new research centre focused on building desirable and resilient public media futures. Prior to this Rhianne led the Responsible Innovation programme in BBC R&D where she collaborated with academic and industry partners to deliver well-timed research to inform technology\, policy\, and strategy. Rhianne holds a PhD in digital media and society\, an MA in social research and professional qualifications in data\, law\, policy\, and regulation\, AI ethics and society\, and public policy analysis. Rhianne currently leads the BBC’s engagement with the AHRC BRAID programme\, the ESRC Digital Good Network and the EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens\, with which her new centre will connect. She also holds strategic advisory roles for the UK TAS Hub and Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/technomoral-conversations-who-is-responsible-for-responsible-ai/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Handing Over Control with David Runciman
DESCRIPTION:‘The Singularity’ is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that\, eventually\, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago\, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities\, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do\, and which\, unlike us\, need never die. They have made us richer\, safer and healthier than would have seemed possible even a few generations ago – and they may yet destroy us.   \n\n\n\nJoin Professor David Runciman in conversation with Professor Shannon Vallor about his latest book\, The Handover\, which distills over three hundred years of thinking about how to live with artificial agency.  \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid 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 us know at the event.  \n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Runciman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the former Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. His books include Where Power Stops\, How Democracy Ends\, and The Confidence Trap. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books. He hosted the widely acclaimed weekly podcast Talking Politics and now hosts the weekly podcast Past Present Future.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and co-directs the AHRC’s BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme. She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character\, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia\, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/handing-over-control-with-david-runciman/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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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:Living with Robots
DESCRIPTION:Will human beings ever embrace robots as a daily part of our social and economic lives? What would it mean to live well with robots? How can we ensure that robot design and development is driven by and aligned with our fundamental human needs\, such as security and social connection? Where are robots already transforming our lives in ways we may not recognize\, and which of our ideas about robots remain mere science fiction fantasies? Where can tomorrow’s robots make the world a better place\, and most importantly\, better for whom? Join us for a conversation among experts in the technical\, moral\, social and economic dimensions of the oft-promised ‘robot revolution’. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kate Devlin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kate Devlin is Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society in the Department of Digital Humanities\, King’s College London. Her research investigates how people interact with and react to technologies\, both past and future. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Turned On: Science\, Sex and Robots (Bloomsbury\, 2018)\, which examines the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy. She is Advocacy and Engagement director for the UKRI Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub (www.tas.ac.uk) – a collaborative platform to enable the development of socially beneficial robotics and artificial intelligence systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Stokes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Stokes is Professor and Chair of Bioinspired Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He holds degrees in engineering\, biomedical science\, and chemistry and he used this background to found The Soft Systems Group\, an interdisciplinary research laboratory focusing on the intersection of next-generation robotics technology\, bioelectronics\, and bioinspired engineering. He is Co-Lead of The National Robotarium\, and Deputy Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. Adam is enthusiastic about translating innovation out of the lab and into people’s lives. His entrepreneurial activities have been recognised by winning the Inaugural Data Driven Entrepreneurship (DDE) Academic Entrepreneurship Award\, and the Principal’s Award for Innovation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRam Ramamoorthy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRam Ramamoorthy is a computer scientist with research specialization in robotics and machine learning. Within the University of Edinburgh\, he plays a leadership role as the Director of the Institute of Perception\, Action and Behaviour in the School of Informatics\, and as an Executive Committee member for the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. He leads multi-university activities at the national level for the UKRI Research Node on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation. His research is focussed on learning\, adaptation and control mechanisms to enable autonomous robots to cope with the uncertain and the unknown\, and for them to be effective in human-AI teams. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelen Hastie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelen Hastie is a Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. Her roles include being the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Academic Co-lead for the National Robotarium. She is part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node on Trust and the EPSRC Hume Prosperity Partnership for human-robot teaming. As well as being a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh\, she recently held a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. Her field of research is multimodal and spoken dialogue systems\, human-robot interaction and trustworthy autonomous systems.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and co-directs the AHRC’s Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem programme. She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character\, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia\, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. Streaming will be live captioned. \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/living-with-robots/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Futures Conversations – Shaping our AI Futures
DESCRIPTION:The flagship panel event opens the fourth in the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations series. \n\n\n\nGiven the enormous advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, many believe humanity is on the threshold of the most profound technological revolution it has ever witnessed. AI already affects our everyday lives\, and our hopes and anxieties around AI run high. Some predict that further development of AI will put us on a path to human extinction while others believe it will usher in a new era of compassion\, non-violence\, and prosperity. \n\n\n\nAgainst a background of unrelenting cultural and geopolitical tensions\, looming planetary catastrophes\, and big challenges in global health\, justice\, and democracy\, will AI turn out to be yet another existential risk? Or will it help us address the major challenges of our times? \n\n\n\nIn this Futures Conversations event\, we bring together leading experts from the worlds of science\, politics\, and civil society to debate what our AI futures may bring\, and to develop ideas for what is needed to advance our collective ability to put AI to the best possible use. The conversation will build on a series of workshops where different visions of our AI future were explored\, and which had a specific emphasis on hearing the voices of people and communities that are traditionally underrepresented in these debates. \n\n\n\nAgainst the ideas developed in these workshops\, we will discuss questions such as\, who will determine our AI future\, how AI and humanity can evolve alongside each other\, what being human in an AI world will mean\, and how AI-driven economies and societies will work. Rather than providing principles for what AI itself “should be like”\, we aim to evolve into what we desire an “AI-ready” society could look like\, and into new ideas for how we might build this future. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPetra Molnar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPetra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specialising in technology\, migration\, and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and runs the Migration and Technology Monitor\, a multilingual archive of work interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders\, funded by the Open Society Foundations. Petra is also the co-author of “Bots at the Gate\,” an internationally recognized report on the human rights impacts of automated decision-making in immigration and refugee systems. Petra is a 2022-2023 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Kate Crawford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles\, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR in New York\, an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney\, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.  Her latest book\,  Atlas of AI (Yale\, 2021) won the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology\, the ASSI&T Best Information Science Book Award\, and was named one of the best books in 2021 by New Scientist and the Financial Times. Over her twenty-year research career\, she has also produced groundbreaking creative collaborations and visual investigations. Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the V&A in London\, and was awarded with the Design of the Year Award in 2019 and included in the Design of the Decades by the Design Museum of London. Her collaboration with the artist Trevor Paglen\, Excavating AI\, won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. She has advised policy makers in the United Nations\, the White House\, and the European Parliament\, and she currently leads the Knowing Machines Project\, an international research collaboration that investigates the foundations of machine learning.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Russell\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley\, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering\, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics\, Science\, and the Public. He is a recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and Research Excellence Award and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received the OBE and gave the Reith Lectures. His book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI\, used in 1500 universities in 135 countries. The current emphasis of his research is on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. He has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty and is currently working to ban lethal autonomous weapons. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPascale Fung\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPascale Fung is a Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)\, and a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She is an expert on the Global Future Council\, a think tank for the World Economic Forum. She represents HKUST on Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society. She is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is a member of the IEEE Working Group to develop an IEEE standard – Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Her research team has won several best and outstanding awards at ACL\, ACL and NeurIPS workshops. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Isaac\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Isaac is a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind\, Advisory Board Member of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group\, and Research Affiliate at Oxford University Centre for the Governance of AI. His research focuses on the societal impact and governance of emerging technologies. Prior to DeepMind\, William served as an Open Society Foundations Fellow. His research has been featured in publications such as Science\, New York Times\, and the MIT Technology Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and co-directs the AHRC’s Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem programme. She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character\, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia\, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Rovatsos\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Rovatsos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh where he is also head of the Bayes Centre\, the University’s Data Science and AI innovation hub. He has over 20 years of experience in AI research\, working primarily on systems where artificial or human agents collaborate or compete with each other. His work has focused on ethical aspects of AI such as fairness\, diversity-awareness\, and responsibility. He has published around 100 scientific articles and has been involved in research projects that have received over £18 million of external funding. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid 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 us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-futures-conversations-shaping-our-ai-futures/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:The Future of Climate Justice  – Reparation and Equality
DESCRIPTION:It is not enough to recognise that climate change is accelerating. Climate change is one of the greatest drivers of injustice the world has ever seen. Those who have contributed the least are facing the greatest burden from an increasingly volatile climate system. While everyone is witnessing the impacts of climate change\, in many regions of the world people are losing their homes\, livelihoods\, culture and lives. \n\n\n\nThe first Future of Climate Justice conversation will take place in the University of Edinburgh’s Playfair Library. The outcome document of COP26 – the Glasgow Climate Pact – is prominent\, contentious and was reluctantly agreed by rich nations. It behoves all of us to ask what has happened. Where are the finances to make life-saving changes happen? Drawing on the language of ‘loss and damage’ this conversation will ask what needs to be done and how can we do it. \n\n\n\nThis panel event opens the third in the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations series and features Adrienne Buller\, Elizabeth Cripps\, Tasneem Essop\, Arunabha Ghosh\, AC Grayling\, Patricia Scotland\, chaired by Hermione Cockburn. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nAdrienne Buller\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdrienne Buller is Director of Research at Common Wealth\, a progressive\, philanthropically funded think tank dedicated to building a democratic and sustainable economy. Her research focuses primarily on the intersections of the climate and nature crises and the financial system. She is the author of The Value of a Whale\, published by Bloomsbury and the co-author of Owning the Future (Verso\, 2022). *Please note that Adrienne Buller is unable to make the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Cripps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Cripps is a moral philosopher with a focus on climate ethics and justice\, and Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Climate Change and the Moral Agent (OUP\, 2013). Her latest book\, What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care\, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022; her next\, Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher’s Guide to Doing Right by your Kids – and Everyone Else\, will be published by the MIT press in 2021. As a journalist\, she worked for the Financial Times Group. Elizabeth has written opinion pieces for the Guardian\, the Herald and the Big Issue\, she appears on podcasts\, radio shows and at literary festivals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTasneem Essop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTasneem Essop is the Executive Director of Climate Action Network International (CAN-I). She completed a second term as Commissioner in the National Planning Commission in South Africa and leads the work on Climate Change and the Just Transition. She headed the climate team in WWF International and served as the Head of Delegation for the organisation at the UNFCCC. As a student and youth activist\, teacher and trade unionist\, Tasneem was an anti-apartheid activist from an early age. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArunabha Ghosh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArunabha Ghosh is an international public policy expert\, author\, columnist\, and institution builder. He is the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy\, Environment and Water (CEEW)\, consistently ranked as one of Asia’s leading policy research institutions; and among the world’s best climate think-tanks. With experience in 45 countries\, Arunabha advises governments\, industry\, civil society and international organisations around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAC Grayling\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAC Grayling is the Founder and Principal of New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University\, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College\, Oxford. The author of over thirty books of philosophy\, biography\, history of ideas\, and essays\, he is a columnist contributing to leading newspapers in the UK\, US and Australia\, and to the BBC. He is a two-time judge of the Booker Prize and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, and the Royal Society of Literature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rt Hon Patricia Scotland\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rt Hon Patricia Scotland\, who took office as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth in April 2016\, serves the 54 governments and 2.4 billion people of the Commonwealth. Born in Dominica\, she moved to the UK at an early age. A lawyer by profession\, she became the first black\, and youngest\, woman ever to be appointed Queen’s Counsel. She was appointed to the House of Lords as Baroness Scotland of Asthal in 1997 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nHermoine Cockburn\n\n\n\n\nHermione Cockburn is the Scientific Director of Dynamic Earth\, the UK’s only science centre entirely focused on the Earth’s story. She began work in environmental research after completing a PhD in geomorphology from the University of Edinburgh. For the past 20 years\, she has dedicated her career to engaging people with science. She has presented many programmes for the BBC including Coast\, Rough Science and an award-winning radio series on bacteria. For her BBC2 series\, Fossil Detectives\, she also wrote an accompanying book. She taught environmental science for the Open University in Scotland for 10 years and is passionate about facilitating life-long learning. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society\, and is a Trustee of the Association of Science and Discovery Centres. She was awarded an OBE for services to public engagement in science in 2020. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdinburgh Futures Conversations   \n\n\n\nThe University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations is a series of events aimed at promoting global cooperation in solving the critical challenges facing the world\, especially post Covid-19. They bring together global influencers\, academic experts\, policymakers\, writers\, activists and artists\, including our alumni and our students\, to debate possible solutions and define the actions necessary to achieve them. They seek to engage the wider public\, opening conversation and creating change across local and international communities. Series events are free and open to all and are delivered by the Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nFor more information on the series: https://www.ed.ac.uk/events/lecture-series/edinburgh-futures-conversations
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-climate-justice-reparation-and-equality/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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