AI Ethics & Society
@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
AI Ethics and Society is a network of researchers investigating the ethico-political implications of data-driven tech - more at www.ai-ethics.org
✨Are you interested in exploring how artists, activists and academics work with queer data as material, concept, process and problem? 🌈 Come join us on June 10th at HOME Manchester for an evening of talks and performances ⬇️ sign up below www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-data...
✨ 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...
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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✨new post! @srravya.bsky.social and Aditi Surana reflect on navigating the shifting landscape of academia - with all its uncertainty, politics and challenges. Reflecting on a recent panel event, they chart messy realities and suggest ways forward Read more here: www.ai-ethics.org/reflections/...
Navigating the shifting landscape of academia — AIES
Across the higher education sector, research and teaching staff are increasingly contending with shifting funding landscape, engaging with multiple disciplines, publishing cross-disciplinary research,...
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Looking forward to speaking here on Wednesday:
AI Ethics & Society@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 6mo ago📣our next event “Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-led dialogue”, is happening in Edinburgh Feb 18th - a panel discussion featuring @karengregory.bsky.social, Nelson Oppong and Adam Badger, and chaired by @srravya.bsky.social 👀 sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...
📣our next event “Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-led dialogue”, is happening in Edinburgh Feb 18th - a panel discussion featuring @karengregory.bsky.social, Nelson Oppong and Adam Badger, and chaired by @srravya.bsky.social 👀 sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...
Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-Led Dialogue
A wide-ranging discussion about moving between disciplines, publishing cross-disciplinary research, and responding to funding uncertainties
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✨exploring empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence' - an in-person event with Edinburgh’s DARE project researchers @nicolasugden.bsky.social, Abby King and Max Perry, looking at how data is being used in UK healthcare and biomedical research. ⬇️ sign up below! shorturl.at/Yj91W
Data-Driven Healthcare
Empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence'
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Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥 Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
✨exploring empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence' - an in-person event with Edinburgh’s DARE project researchers @nicolasugden.bsky.social, Abby King and Max Perry, looking at how data is being used in UK healthcare and biomedical research. ⬇️ sign up below! shorturl.at/Yj91W
Data-Driven Healthcare
Empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence'
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Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟♀️🧑💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research! Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
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Grateful to the organisers @velocitygravity.bsky.social Ans Sona Gachayeva at @stir.ac.uk and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the opportunity to pre-launch the book 𝑨𝑰 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 and exchange with academics and authors on the challenges that AI brings to universities
Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
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🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception. Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
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✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE! Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception ⬇️ sign up shorturl.at/QlMfx
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
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📣 Come join us on Nov 7th for the launch of the European Trade Union Institute’s new book on AI in Higher Education and Research, edited by @aida.follows.technology who will join us for a book talk! Followed by a fascinating discussion chaired by Dr Sona Gacheyeva ⬇️ info & sign up shorturl.at/8oZ4Z
Book Launch: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and Research
Join us in Stirling for a book launch of Dr Ponce Del Castillo's forthcoming edited book on AI in Higher Education!
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✨ Join us Oct 22nd for Beren Sekerci's talk exploring material agency and hybridity in biohybrid robotics - artifacts which are neither fully living nor fully robotic, designed by both AI and humans ⬇️ Find out more and sign up below! shorturl.at/cm4uP
"A New Class of Artifact?"
Exploring Hybridity and Intersecting Agencies in Biohybrid Robotics with Beren Sekerci
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Join us in-person for a guided discussion on fine-tuning LLMs with Lara Dal Molin. In this hands-on session, you can interact with the base version of the model before fine-tuning, discussing the ethical dimensions and shortcomings of fine-tuning 🗓️ 10th Oct, 4-5.30pm ⬇️ sign up: shorturl.at/OqQGf
Fine-Tuning as Repair? Discussing and Testing a Large Language Model
Join us for a discussion on the practice of fine-tuning Large Language Models and test a model fine-tuned on Edinburgh-based perspectives!
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if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!
👀another fascinating event on Friday discussing how metaphors shape our understanding of AI, thus direct design, development and implementation with real-world impacts Thanks for the thought-proving talks and discussion @velocitygravity.bsky.social, Audrey Borowski, and Oksana Dorofeeva
got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew! Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️ 📸Daniel McGowan Photography
✨inspired and energised by our wonderful speakers at the Queer Data Showcase, hosted by fantastic @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social, supported by @prideinstem.bsky.social, and co-organised by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and yours truly @sj-bennett.bsky.social @velocitygravity.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social
Queer Data Showcase has started! Massively excited about this @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social x Gender & Sexuality Lab collab. @sj-bennett.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social @meg-fereday.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social
en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night! Tickets here 👇 www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...
✨only a week until this awesome panel discussing the role of mythmaking and metaphors in shaping AI, with @velocitygravity.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski!! Still a couple of places left, you can sign up below 👇🏻
AI Ethics & Society@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · last yr.🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A 🖊️ sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...
🔥only a week and a half until this, where’s it’s the time to!! We still have a few tickets left, sign up below 👇🏻
AI Ethics & Society@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · last yr.✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻
🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A 🖊️ sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...
Digital Metaphors and Algorithmic Myths in the Past, Present, and Future
All welcome to our event with Audrey Borowski and Vassilis Galanos on the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary digital culture!
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✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice
📢 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...
The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work
Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance
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