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SUMMARY:Decoding our Humanity - Professor Shannon Vallor\, University of E
 dinburgh
DTSTART:20250314T173000Z
DTEND:20250314T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:A code is a tool for hiding things of value. Yet codes also gr
 ant access to what has been hidden and locked away. This lecture explores 
 the role of code\, and coding\, in both hiding and granting access to our 
 humanity\, in multiple senses of the word. As a philosophical provocation\
 , it offers a challenge to the core values and aims of modern computing\, 
 those most deeply embedded in today’s rush toward algorithmic automation
 \, and asks how those aims might be remade in the service of humane future
 s.\n\nProf. Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of D
 ata and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) a
 t the University of Edinburgh\, where she is also appointed in Philosophy.
  She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in EFI\, and is co-Directo
 r of the UKRI’s BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme. Profe
 ssor Vallor's research explores how AI\, robotics\, and data science resha
 pe human character\, habits\, and practices. Her work includes advising po
 licymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI\, and she is a
  former Visiting Researcher and AI Ethicist at Google. She currently serve
 s on the standing committee of Stanford University’s One Hundred Year St
 udy of AI (AI100). Her works include two monographs: Technology and the Vi
 rtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University 
 Press\, 2016) and The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Mach
 ine Thinking (Oxford University Press\, 2024).
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue
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