Thrilled to be joining @ftollon.bsky.social at RSA House and online, 9th October at 6pm (UTC+1), with @taniaduarte.bsky.social to discuss Tollon’s recent work with @shannonvallor.bsky.social on the #ResponsibleAI landscape. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-respon...

Come chat to our CTMF researchers at the Edinburgh Futures Institute this Doors Open Day!

As our debut post on BlueSky, we are delighted to announce that Professor @sramamoorthy.bsky.social has been apponted as GAIL Director. Professor Ramamoorthy will lead the next stages of GAIL's development, read more in our news story 👉 gail.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 @braiduk.bsky.social is seeking a Communications & Impact Officer who will play a pivotal role in enhancing BRAID’s visibility, engagement, and overall impact. The post is full-time & fixed-term until Nov 2028. Applications close on 1 Sep 2025📝. More: edin.ac/4fSpAmf

Come and visit Authenticity Unmasked at the Edinburgh Arts Fedtival and @edfringe.bsky.social! The exhibit presents three newly commissioned artworks by @dmstfctn.bsky.social, Georgia Gardner, and Kinnari Saraiya that explore how AI reshapes our understanding of authenticity, truth, and identity.

Very excited to be recruiting for a Communication and Impact Officer to work with me, @ewaluger.bsky.social and the whole @braiduk.bsky.social team in Edinburgh through late 2028! Opportunity is Grade 7 and applications close 1st Sept

Had a very lively conversation with Judy Estrin, Christopher Wylie, Justine Bateman and @antelava.bsky.social from @codastory.bsky.social, on how to challenge the increasingly authoritarian shape of Silicon Valley power

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 Opportunity to join our Edinburgh-based team as BRAID Project Administrator. Full time, til Nov 2028. Find out more: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... A pivotal role, helping ensure smooth running of BRAID. Come help us make a difference. #Edinburgh #Jobs

Open Call for Global Majority Fellowship 🌍 Only just over a week left to apply for the Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing Global Majority Fellowship Scheme, housed at Edinburgh Futures Institute! Applications close 31 July. Visit 🌐 www.responsiblenlp.org/global-major...

Join us @edbookfest.bsky.social, for 'Navigating the AI Revolution' with Richard Susskind. Chaired by Shannon Vallor, @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and sponsored by Edinburgh Futures Institute. 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute 🗓️ 24 August | 15:15pm – 16:15pm 🎟️ Tickets £15.50: edin.ac/3TWjqar

Congratulations Dr @mussgnug.bsky.social! All of us at the CTMF are so proud of you! 🎉 You can read Alex's most recent paper, which challenges the idea of AI as a distinct territory for ethics and regulation, here: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Looking forward to this panel!

Congratulations @zelny.bsky.social!

Join Dr Audrey Borowski (@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Visiting Fellow) for the last event of her ‘AI and the Digital’ seminar series, where she will be in conversation with @shannonvallor.bsky.social‬! 📍 Online via Zoom 📅 Monday 30 June 7.00-8.00pm BST 🎟️ Register: edin.ac/45GJgXd

One week on from the BRAID Community Gathering, and we’re still feeling the energy from a day filled with insight, authenticity and connection. Heartfelt thanks to our speakers, attendees; Our Community - your being there made it what it was.

Lovely to see this piece linking my work with that of Charles Taylor, Joseph Stiglitz, Elinor Ostrom and others who challenge our failing model of liberalism, one that enables the private enclosure of public goods and the resulting collapse of our civic virtues and capabilities for common life.

Happy to share that our Landscape Study on Responsible AI has just been published: zenodo.org/records/1519... If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi... @braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social

Can’t wait for this fireside chat with the always amazing @alexhanna.bsky.social later today at Edinburgh’s Quaker Meeting House, a seminar sponsored by @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and GAIL; @lighthousebks.bsky.social will also be there with copies of The AI Con and The AI Mirror!

Excited to be in Manchester where the #BRAIDUK community is gathering. 3 years since the launch of BRAID, we look forward to celebrating the achievements of our community, & exploring together opportunities for the future @christophersmith.bsky.social #AHRC #AcademicSky #AHRC

Last week, we celebrated five years of incredible research at the Centre for Technomoral Futures with our PhD Showcase! The afternoon was a celebration of our PhD Fellow's hard work, as well as a testament to the fantastic research community we have fostered at the CTMF. @shannonvallor.bsky.social

Six PhD Journeys. One incredible community. Recap our 'Futures in Focus' series and meet our PhD Fellows working at the intersection of ethics and technology! Read their stories ▶️ edin.ac/44t6iQG @shannonvallor.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

🎙️ Introducing “Futures Conversations” — a new podcast from Edinburgh Futures Institute! We explore ethics, data, politics, design & media across 6 episodes. 🎧 Ep 1 with Professor @shannonvallor.bsky.social on AI ethics is out now! 🔗 Listen + learn more: efi.ed.ac.uk/futures-conv...

This conversation with @alexhanna.bsky.social in Edinburgh will be one of the highlights of my summer!

Huge congrats to @joenote.bsky.social and to @technomoralfutures.bsky.social for building such a stellar model for interdisciplinary PhD scholarship.

Congratulations to Dr. Noteboom! All of us at EFI and @technomoralfutures.bsky.social are so proud to have supported your PhD research and very grateful to get to work with you. Congrats also to your amazing supervisors @jenr.bsky.social and @karengregory.bsky.social!

Congratulations Dr Noteboom!! 🎉 You can read about @joenote.bsky.social's research and PhD journey on our website ▶️ edin.ac/43qrvtq And read his open access article on 'The student as user: mapping student perspectives on platformisation in higher ed' here ▶️ doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2414055

Really excited to be in conversation with @shannonvallor.bsky.social in a few weeks!

Alex’s dissertation explores the ethical and epistemological impacts of machine learning prediction on the practice of science, and the measurement of poverty in particular. It’s amazing work. So grateful to have been there to see it develop, and to have worked with Alex as my first Edinburgh PhD.

Congratulations to Dr Alex @mussgnug.bsky.social, CTMF PhD Fellow, for passing his viva with no corrections! 🎉 You can read his work in the European Journal of Philosophy of Science, Development and Change, & these pre-prints: 💡 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24891/ 💡 arxiv.org/abs/2412.05130

We're looking forward to having Ramsha Naeem (University of Central Punjab) join us as an EFI Visiting Fellow in the autumn!

My debate at the @noemamag.com anniversary is now online - it’s a spicy one! (albeit not by philosophy standards. No fireplace pokers were used).

Beyond what generative AI is in itself as a technology, what does this technology say about us? How is generative AI an example of us losing our faith in ourselves, and what can we do about it? Hear CTMF PhD Fellow Andrew Zelny’s thoughts on these questions in our latest blog post ▶️ edin.ac/3Fdp6sM

Don't forget to register for our last Lecture Series of the semester this Thursday 15th May hosted online via Zoom. Srravya will be speaking on Locating Data Work within Responsible AI Register here: edin.ac/438idCI @designinf.bsky.social

Do LLMs encode gendered stereotypes? Do they encode the same stereotypes across languages? How can we better measure gender bias in multilingual LLMs? I'll be presenting a poster on my work on these questions at this research showcase tomorrow hosted by @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social 👇 See you there!

Had an amazing time at #NAACL last week in Albuquerque 🌵 Especially enjoyed presenting my recent paper on machine translation for Guinea-Bissau Creole at the workshop on MT for low-resource languages aclanthology.org/2025.loresmt... 🎉 thanks to organisers, reviewers & all who gave feedback! 🙏

Our next seminar will be with @srravya.bsky.social on the 15th May hosted at Inspace and online. Srravya will be speaking on Locating Data Work within Responsible AI Register here: edin.ac/438idCI @designinf.bsky.social @inspacegallery.bsky.social

Join us as we hear from EFI Visiting Fellow Dr Audrey Borowski (Universities of Bonn and Cambridge) on how data—as it is constantly redeployed and fed back—has come to produce meaning, occupy our life-worlds, and shape reality. 📍 EFI & online 📅Tues 20 May 5.00-6.15pm BST 🎟️ Tickets ▶️ edin.ac/4m4Etoe

✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke

Join us later this month to hear @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social discuss early findings from the CREA-TEC project with Adobe, exploring how creatives use generative AI, with particular attention on patterns of use, trust, and adaptation. 📆 Mon 26 May, 16:00 - 17:30 🔗 edin.ac/3YYUIZQ

“Language plays an important role in enhancing the quality of current AI systems. It is essential for many applications, such as helping people navigate legal processes & providing instructions to LLMs.” Read about @clairebarale.bsky.social's PhD journey in legal reasoning & NLP ▶ edin.ac/4jDgriv

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Technomoral Conversation on AI & Creative Labour earlier this month, run in collaboration with @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social & @braiduk.bsky.social! In case you missed it, you can watch the recording here ▶️ edin.ac/4iCoWZT 📸 @chrisdonia.bsky.social

Join next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar where @dynarch.bsky.social will provide key insights from her scoping BRAID project ‘Creating a dynamic #archive of Responsible AI Ecosystems in the context of #CreativeAI’ 📅 Thu 8 May ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍@inspacegallery.bsky.social/ Zoom 🎟 edin.ac/3CoJbuZ

Our next seminar is with Dr Lydia Farina on the 8th May talking on Responsibility, AI and the Creative Industries. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/braid-x-id...

📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva 👇🏻 Sign up here below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-places...

@uoelawschool.bsky.social is hiring a Teaching & Research Fellow in AI, Data & the Rule of Law. The post will include: ✨teaching responsibilities @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social ↔️collaboration across @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🤝working closely with our CTMF team! Apply by 2 May ▶️ edin.ac/4ih5dP9

Can machines be taught to understand right from wrong? Should we build AI that can navigate complex ethical dilemmas, or is morality an inherently human trait that technology can never truly grasp? Yuxin Liu explores these questions in the latest CTMF blog post, ‘Can AI be moral?’ ▶️ edin.ac/4icaeZ9

We’re live! Join the livestream here ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social

Tonight's the night! Join us this evening for our Technomoral Conversation on AI & Creative Labour! 📅 Thursday, 10 April at 18.00 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online Register to attend in-person ▶️ edin.ac/424OsBU Watch the livestream ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Last chance to register for tonight’s conversation about AI and Creative Labour, with me, ALCS’ Richard Combes and @braiduk.bsky.social fellows Caroline Sinders and Paula Westenberger!

Congrats to Dr. Emily Sullivan, our soon-to-be colleague at @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and Edinburgh Philosophy, for receiving the Simon Award from IACAP!