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Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Applications are open for a fully funded PhD position with the "Decisions" Cluster of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life (CAL), working with Professor Nehal Bhuta at Edinburgh Law School. Deadline 30 Sept 2026. Read the full details: edin.ac/3SbBbW5

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

BRAID's Creative Industries Lead, Nicola Osborne, is back @edfringe.bsky.social on Sunday 23 August asking: can you create a new and exciting innovative business and still be ethical? Info and tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

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The Provocateurs: Ethical innovators? / Satellites destroy privacy - Edinburgh, 23 Aug 2026 | The Stand

The Provocateurs: Ethical innovators? / Satellites destroy privacy Can you create a new and exciting innovative business and still be ethical? Join Provocateu...

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Organizing and facilitating a workshop / panel this Wednesday, with @lilianedwards.bsky.social, @adamlopez.bsky.social, @datacontroversies.bsky.social If you're around, come check it out. We'll be focused on how to bring legitimacy to the technology embedded in everything. Sign up below.

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Bringing Legitimacy to "AI Sovereignty"

What is Digital or AI sovereignty? What makes the technologies integral to our daily lives legitimate? How do we achieve better futures?

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Our AI Collective CIC @our-ai-collective.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not long till our special screening of the acclaimed Ghost in the Machine doc at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat 22 August at 3pm. Q&A with director and @zeerak.bsky.social, Jen Ang from @lawmanity.com for a Q&A after. Book now! www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/ghost-... youtu.be/i9DAv0D7tnY?...

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GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

‘Creating technomoral futures means striving for futures where technology is designed and used in ways that improve human flourishing, rather than in ways that eat away at human rights, contribute to climate collapse or create greater social exclusion.’ – Dr Emily Sullivan, CTMF Co-Director

Dr Sullivan speaks to the audience at the CTMF ECR Showcase

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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

⭐ Future University: Six events explore the future of higher education this September  ⭐ Join our Future University events programme, a bold exploration of how universities can evolve to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Find out more and book now 👉 edin.ac/458CFmE

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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

AI is transforming how knowledge gets made. Join Devi Sridhar, Christopher Smith & Michael Rovatsos to explore what this means for research and universities. 17 Sept, 10:00–11:30 AM, Hybrid, EFI + online. Register: efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-re…

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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Congratulations to all our Summer 2026 graduates! 🎓 Fourteen EFI students received their scroll on the 11 June, graduating from a range of our postgraduate programmes. We are so proud of all our graduates, and we’re excited to see them out there changing the world! 📷 Chris Scott

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in #PublicServices, how do we measure its impact beyond efficiency/cost savings? New BRAID blog! @drdarcyluke.bsky.social explores, & considers how impact assessment could support #ResponsibleAI adoption & better outcomes for the public braiduk.org/learning-les...

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How can we better measure the social value of AI? Learning lessons for UK public services

Efficiency savings. Productivity gains. Headcount reduction. This is the language commonly used to describe the proposed economic benefits artificial intelligence (AI) will bring.This commerci

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Bhargavi Ganesh, my truly brilliant PhD student in Informatics who I have been immensely lucky to work with @technomoralfutures.bsky.social - so proud to be able to share this moment with you! @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Our Future University events programme taking place on 17-18 September 2026 is now open for booking! The programme includes hybrid events around the future of the higher education sector in the context of today’s global challenges. Free but ticketed. Book 👉 efi.ed.ac.uk/future-university

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Earlier this month we hosted our 2nd annual CTMF Research Showcase, this year featuring our early career researchers! The Showcase demonstrated the excellence and interdisciplinary spirit of our research community.  Read about the CTMF Early Career Research Showcase 👇 edin.ac/4xAHlyF

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Showcasing our CTMF Early Career Researchers — Centre for Technomoral Futures

‍Earlier this month we hosted our CTMF ECR Showcase, bringing together members of our vibrant research community to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our early career researchers!

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 17/06/2026

Absolute joy to present with Sarah Immel the paper we wrote with @neelrajani.bsky.social - Stepping Into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs for Public Exploration Through Discursive Design at @acm-dis.bsky.social in Singapore. And we won an Honourable Mention!

Sarah, Rayo, and the session chair posing for the camera holding the Honourable Mention award. Above them, a projector screen says "Stepping into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs to Public Exploration Through Discursive Design"

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Can you seek out what’s true in today’s tsunami of AI slop? Dr Bronwyn Jones, BRAID's Public Media and Democracy Lead, hosted a session on Truth, Trust and Trickery in the AI Age at this year's Edinburgh Science Festival. Find out more: braiduk.org/public-views... vimeo.com/1187589697?f...

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Truth, Trust and Trickery in the AI Age at Edinburgh Science Festival

Dr Bronwyn Jones, BRAID’s Public Media and Democracy Lead, hosted a session on Truth, Trust and Trickery in the AI Age at this year's Edinburgh Science Festival. The event brought together 70 people...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I don’t always express myself perfectly in interviews (I mean, who does) but reading this one, I’m struck that every conversation I’ve ever had w/ @sigalsamuel.bsky.social ends up as close as it’s possible for me to get to saying exactly what I want to say. (Thanks Sigal!)

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So glad Vox went to @shannonvallor.bsky.social to make the case for believing in humanity in the face of AI-inspired doom 🤖🚒

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

AI companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study by colleagues at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social (including @zeerak.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at the CTMF), @tcddublin.bsky.social, TU Delft and @cmu.edu.

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 15/05/2026

How is AI like a mirror? You’re always looking into the past. AI ethicist Professor Shannon Vallor explaining some of the philosophical implications of the debate around the technology @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @adambecker.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 12/05/2026

Newwwww episode with AI philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social - feat metaphors, dunking on libertarians and SF billboards, and how to hope for the future. @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Join us on Patreon or wygypodcasts :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_f0...

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Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor

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Fabio Tollon @ftollon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Do you need another argument for why AI is Bad? @michalwieczorek.bsky.social and I have a new paper. We argue that the productivity calculus often used to justify edtech interventions is systematically blind to the role that moral entanglement, care and relational work play in education.

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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Join us for a timely exploration of the civic role of the university in an age of democratic uncertainty and rapid technological change. ▪️Beth Simone Noveck: Civic University – Democracy, AI, and the Public Imagination 🕛 2 June 6PM – 7:15 PM BST 📍EFI & online 🎟️ edin.ac/4syWUmT

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Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Our second panel Narratives of the Future II happening at the University of Edinburgh’s @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social IASH @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on 12 June! Hybrid audience is possible. Register via the Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/narratives.... @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

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Claudia González-Márquez @gonzalezmarquez.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Happy to share our latest book chapter, published in Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics. It looks at how neurotechnology is portrayed in the media and how those narratives influence public understandings of BCIs across different linguistic contexts 🧠🗞️ authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvz49ClDl...

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

📣 Postdoc opportunity with Dr Nayha Sethi, CTMF Affiliate 📣 The Medicine without Doctors Project is recruiting a postdoc fellow with a background in law/regulation/socio-legal studies to work on a case-study exploring socio-legal elements of AI. Closing date: 8 May Info & apply 👇 edin.ac/3Qf8VQX

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to undertake socio-legal work in relation to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) component of the project. In collaboration with Dr Nayha Sethi (line manager), th...

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

📢 Just under 1 week left to apply! 📢 More info & apply 👇 3-year PDRA: edin.ac/4edC20O 2-year PDRA: edin.ac/4cjuhnQ Closing Date: Monday, 20 April 2026 @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @shannonvallor.bsky.social #PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics

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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Delighted to share our work on some of the sociophonetic cues reproduced in commercial TTS with @lhlew.bsky.social last week at BAAP (the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians) - thanks for having me! Really enjoyed some fantastic talks 🗣️🎙️

Two people smiling in front of a poster on display. The large title reads 'Kind is the Opposite of Competent: Phonetic variation in English TTS voices'.

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Come work with the Philosophy department @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social with affiliation to the CTMF! Applications are open for two Postdoc Research Associates in Philosophy of Science & Philosophy of Machine Learning as part of the ERC Project: Machine Learning in Science and Society: A Dangerous Toy?

Photo of the clocktower of the Edinburgh Futures Institute building on a cloudy day. Image is overlaid with transparent green to blue gradient bubbles and text reading: Come work with our Co-Director, Dr Emily Sullivan, on the ERC Project: Machine Learning in Science and Society: A Dangerous Toy? Applications are open for two Postdoc Research Associates in Philosophy of Science and ML! Apply by 20 April 2026: edin.ac/4bPXUNb

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We are excited to share that Professor @shannonvallor.bsky.social, Co-Director of the CTMF, has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh! Congratulations to Professor Vallor on this very well-deserved honour! @royalsoced.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

See above for the three-year post description and link to apply, and below for the two-year post (on interpretability and explainability methods for complex ML models in science, experience in formal methods preferred for this one): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Philosophy Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a full time, fixed term Postdoctoral Research Associate. This post is available from May 2026.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 April

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Philosophy Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a full time, fixed term Postdoctoral Research Associate. This post is available from May 2026.

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hear from @ftollon.bsky.social and @enricogalvagni.bsky.social (part of our CTMF research community) on this podcast episode! 👇🔊

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Deeply grateful to the UK AI and Robotics research community for this Leadership Award. So many wonderful researchers were honoured with me tonight - my own award would not be possible without my amazing @braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social colleagues

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The Centre for Technomoral Futures is about bringing together the technical, moral, social expertise that's needed to secure the future of human flourishing. Watch to learn about our first 5 years, and let us know where you think the next few years might take us! 👇 youtube.com/shorts/GUU70--ftkg

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Celebrating Five Years of Just and Ethical Innovation

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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Call for EOIs: Join @braiduk.bsky.social and Ada's Stakeholder Forum to help shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK. Forum members will inform BRAID's activities and priority areas, and explore challenges and opportunities for Responsible AI. braiduk.org/braid-stakeh... 📅18 March 2026

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Applications close on Monday (16 March) for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science! Supervised by our CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan, this studentship is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Dr Suzanne Black is joining us to give a paper from her upcoming book lsupress.org/9780807186428/between-… on March 25th. Join us for "Preserving digital cultural heritage: Archive of Our Own and issues of structural bias?" Register here: edin.ac/3MgQsSA #EdCDCS

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

✨ How can model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data? And how might it perpetuate notions of real data as 'gold standard'? @bnjacobsen.bsky.social will discuss this in his talk on March 18th - sign up ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trash-in-t...

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Trash In, Trash Out? Synthetic Data and the Politics of Degenerative AI

This talk discusses how phenomena such as model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📢 We've published our latest Annual Report! 📢 In 2024-2025, we celebrated 5 years of the Centre, 4 of our PhD Fellows submitted their theses, we were joined by @zeerak.bsky.social and 4 new PhD Fellows, and our public events reached nearly 1000 attendees! Read about our year 👇 edin.ac/3N0WLKm

A full audience in a lecture theatre, listening to Professor Vallor's Inaugural Lecture. Photo by Chris Scott.

Professor Shannon Vallor is stood behind a lectern in front of a full audience, mid presentation. Photo by Chris Scott.

Members of the CTMF community presenting their research posters and networking.

Shannon Vallor introducing Meenakshi Mani's presentation at the CTMF PhD Showcase. Meenakshi's slides read: The trifecta of colonial "isms": AI, Big Tech & Indian education.

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This PhD studentship will look at how concepts in ethics and political philosophy might give us new perspectives in philosophy of science about concepts of idealization, representation and model use. Find out more & apply by 16 March 👇 edin.ac/46cHXPd

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ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning | Scholarships and Student Funding | Student Administration

This is a four-year ERC funded PhD studentship (starting in September 2026).

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University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science @uoe-sps.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Controversies in the Data Society 2026 Seminar Series Scams, bubbles and the financial technologies of data societies 06 March 2026 / 3:10pm - 5:30pm With Professor Liz McFall and Dr Lana Swartz Find out more and register your place: edin.ac/4af78BQ

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The big shed economy
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Financial Wellness and the fight against the online scam economy

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University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science @uoe-sps.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Can we tame language technologies? How to think about Large Language Models in the wild 13 March 2026 3.10pm - 5.30pm Book your space: edin.ac/4cvZwNS

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Recent developments and hype around technology grounded in natural language - in particular, large language models - has considerable-to-huge controversy about whether they can be ‘tamed’ sufficiently by engineering to suppress the way they seem to encode and seem likely to perpetuate social and economic inequalities when used in the wild.

This week’s speakers are experts in natural language technology, and will explore how this may be impossible, and how we need instead to develop social processes to manage these challenges.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester: March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep See eventbrites below

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"AI systems still perpetuate societal norms and stereotypes and misogyny and racism and harms. But because the 'AI as innovation' or 'AI as societal advancement' narrative has taken over, the other side of the debate or the other side of the argument rarely gets any attention." @abeba.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Are you making waves in data research, or do you know someone who is? Submit a nomination for the CDCS Prizes www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/cdcs-prizes #EdCDCS

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Was on the telly tonight - it’s available on BBC iPlayer. Almost fell off the couch hearing the intro describe me as a ‘cautious AI optimist’ - it’s a telling misframing. If you reject the narrative that we must passively accept the worst things about AI, you must believe AI is a force for good!

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Scotcast - AI Future

Martin Geissler hears how AI can be a force for good, but only if people and politicians curtail the power of Big Tech companies.

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