Earlier this month, we celebrated five years of incredible research at the Centre for Technomoral Futures with our PhD Showcase. Coming from a multitude of backgrounds, this extraordinary group of PhD Fellows shared their ideas through poster presentations and lightning talks.

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…

We are excited to announce that Dr Emily Sullivan, an expert at the intersection of the philosophy of science and machine learning, will be joining the University of Edinburgh in August 2025 as Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Technology.

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.

Examining the ethical implications of natural language processing. The Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Centre for Technomoral Futures and the School of Informatics are delighted to invite applications for this funded PhD studentship, to begin in the academic year 2025/2026.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Shannon Vallor has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Research.

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.

Dr Anissa Tanweer and Dr Audrey Borowski will join the CTMF Research Community during the 2024-2025 year, as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institutes Visiting Fellowship Programme!

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.

On the 3rd June 2024, Professor Vallor’s new book ‘The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking’ was released with Oxford University Press!

‘New Perspectives on AI Futures’ was a workshop series held in spring 2023, funded by the Alan Turing Institute and led by Dr Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Chancellor’s Fellow and Research Lead at the CTMF. Read the report here!

Chancellor’s Fellow Dr. Atoosa Kasirzadeh joined the Centre for Technomoral Futures as Research Lead in January 2022.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), have appointed Centre for Technomoral Futures Director, Professor Shannon Vallor, and Professor Ewa Luger to direct the £3.5 million programme ‘Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem’ in collaboration with the Ada Lovelace Institute.

The paper, co-authored by Professor Stuart Anderson from the School of Informatics and our CTMF Director Professor Shannon Vallor, looks at lessons learned from US government responses to steamboat accidents and how they can be used nowadays in AI governance.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology.

Professor Shannon Vallor to be principal investigator on a UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme: Responsibility Grant, funded by ESPRC.

Dr. Atoosa Kasirzadeh has been appointed as a Chancellor’s Fellow in Philosophy, through the support of the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Centre for Technomoral Futures.

Researchers from EFI, across the University and beyond have come together to help ensure the trustworthiness of machines that act or make decisions on their own.

Centre for Technomoral Futures welcomes applications for three Baillie Gifford PhD studentships in the critical area of AI and Data Ethics.