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Shannon Vallor
Shannon Vallor is the Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics, and data science, reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Her work includes advising policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI.
Shannon Vallor is the Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics, and data science, reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Her work includes advising policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI.
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What Machines Can't Do
Will computers ever match human intelligence?
Corruption and Climate Change
Piers Corbyn | We misunderstood climate change
Humans versus Nature
Are humans part of nature or a hostile enemy?
Blind Data
The secrets behind compatibility science
March of the Machines
Is AI a threat to mankind?
The World in Our Hands
Rationality and climate change
The Puzzle of Progress
Has technology brought us the good life?
The Dark Side of Environmentalism
Are we just trying to repent of our consumerism?
Mind Machines
The future of AI
James Lovelock: Creativity in Science & Gaia Theory
The life of a lone scientist
What We Don't Know About CO2
The science of climate change
Can We Control AI?
Nigel Shadbolt | The right questions to ask on AI
Is Digital Thinking Different?
The internet revolution & the human brain
Climate Change and Britain’s Future
Huhne predicts wars and violence
How to Thrive in a Digital Age
Creative Robots
How to make an inventive bot
The Habits of Nature
Do natural laws evolve over time?
Genes, Memes and Temes
The Myth of Scarcity
What is the future of sustainable farming?
The Fifth Crime
Designing Life
Nine Million Steps in Solitude
What it’s like to walk the Amazon
Staying Human in Cyberspace
Mindfulness in cyberspace
The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine
Global Overhaul
Rupert Read | Why going green matters
Future Storm
Where will lightning strike next?
Why Trolls Matter
The threat to 'polite' society
Rise of the Machines
AI: a science fiction fantasy?
My Avatar, Myself
How to extend yourself into the virtual
Touching Cyberspace
Back to the physical
The AI enigma
Is artificial intelligence a threat?
Who's afraid of the big, bad data?
Big data as a force for good
Profit, planet, and pretence
Can capitalism solve the climate crisis?
Science is broken
An interview with Helen Czerski
The consciousness test
Is AI sentient?
Mind over matter
The potential of mind-computer interface technology
The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous
The potential and the threat of data
Zanna Clay | In-depth Interview
On animal empathy, evolution, and beyond
How oceans shaped the world
Saving the heart of our planet
AI, emotions and the tech evolution
Building a better world around AI
The dawn of machine consciousness with Joscha Bach
The dream and danger of AI
How to tame AI
Science alone won't solve climate change
Tackling the climate emergency
How to live forever
Radical life extension' technology
Capitalism and the climate
Our planet and the economy
Digital Apes
Technology as a force for good
AI and the end of humanity
Does AI change what it means to be human?
The next environmental crisis
Are our current solutions just a short term fix?
AI and the story of the universe
How AI will help us make scientific discoveries
How volcanoes could change the world
The power and promise of geoengineering
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Tipping points and the Earth's system
Human history in the age of the Anthropocene
Could blockchain end big tech?
Nature is not a resource for humans
The dangers of Zuckerberg's metaverse
The new science of extreme weather
AI is turning us into machines
Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong
How technology will revolutionise relationships
We should all be worried about synthetic data
Google's AI is not sentient. Not even slightly
The AI containment problem
Technological determinism is wrong
The dangers of science behind closed doors
Why electric cars are a mistake
Why we have the future of AI wrong
Why AI must learn to forget
All-knowing machines are a fantasy
AI may need sleep too
The lunacy of 'machine consciousness'
'Machine consciousness' is not lunacy
The end of astronauts
Machine Life
Google, Amazon and Plato’s Cave
The culture of bees and the AI apocalypse
AI and the end of reason
Controlling the threats from AI
AI, Moloch, and the race to the bottom
Stem cells: the hype and the dangerous reality
Ancient traits in modern life