Speech technology researchers worldwide are working on improving the smoothness and fidelity of text-to-speech towards the goal of accessible communication for all. However, TTS models are also being used to produce misinformation, deepfake pornography, fraudulent phone calls and more…

Miyazaki’s lament that “we humans are losing faith in ourselves” has gone largely unnoticed, but stands to be a most salient message. 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?

For centuries, the capacity for complex moral reasoning has been thought of as uniquely human. As artificial intelligence grows increasingly sophisticated, a new set of questions emerges…

This workshop brought CTMF staff together with researchers from the University's Vet School, Roslin Institute, and Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems to explore how data ethics applies across their disciplines.

In this blog post, Professor Burkhard Schafer shares his experiences of a session he recently led with a group of pupils at Balerno High School in Edinburgh to explore the intersection of robotics, AI, and ethics.

In this blog post, hear from Dr Lucy Havens on the importance of the distinction between overt and covert bias, and the societal implications of current approaches to measuring biases in ML/AI models focusing primarily on overt bias.

Can AI-driven systems be deployed within religious communities for pastoral care on all levels? If so, what is the role of human ministers in pastoral care in the age of AI? Hear from Dr Ximian Xu on Companionable AI in Christian Pastoral Care in this blog post.

Hear James Garforth, Benedetta Catanzariti and Meenakshi Mani reflect on their experience collaborating across social science and computer science to design and teach the new EFI 'Translational Data and AI Ethics' intensive course.

Professor Shannon Vallor, Director of the new Centre for Technomoral Futures, asks why scientifically- and technologically-rich nations like the UK and the US failed in their response to the pandemic, and highlights the missing link.