⭐ 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 👉 https://edin.ac/458CFmE

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: https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-research-in-an-age-of-ai/

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

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...

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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🏆 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

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

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 👉 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/future-university/

Proud to present the preprint of our @interspeech.bsky.social accepted paper: exploring the personas invoked by "flirty" and "temptress" (Elevenlabs' labels, not ours!) AI voices with @scariadna.bsky.social @elinkanhov.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social and Éva Székely 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2606.21366

Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice

This work examines sexualised AI-generated English-speaking voices offered by a popular commercial platform. New technologies may enable sexual empowerment and greater diversity in gender expression, ...

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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

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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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!

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...

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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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!)

Vox@vox.com · 3mo ago

Tech culture has made contempt for humanity feel enlightened. We can do better. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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

Vox@vox.com · 3mo ago

Tech culture has made contempt for humanity feel enlightened. We can do better. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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.

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

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...

Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor

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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.

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 🎟️ https://edin.ac/4syWUmT

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

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/

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

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...

📣 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

📢 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

Centre for Technomoral Futures@technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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?

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 🗣️🎙️

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?

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

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...

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

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

IDEA: The Ethics Centre@idea-leeds.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When AI causes harm and responsibility is unclear, can our concept of moral responsibility be preserved — or must it change? Jim speaks with Enrico Galvagni and Fabio Tollon (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) on @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social Listen here: buff.ly/gMN0ii7

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

Gaia Marcus@gaiamarcus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very thoroughly earned vallor (!) - @shannonvallor.bsky.social given the Ai & Robotics Research Leadership Award!