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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

Human justice and machine intelligence
An interview with Professor Joanna Bryson

The AI Apocalypse
Is AI as dangerous as we think?

The danger and promise of the algorithm
How algorithms control our lives

Scientific freedom
An interview with Craig Callender

The Anthropocene is bigger than climate change
Renewable energy is not enough

The AI illusion
What does the future really have in store?

AI is a mirror on humanity
Humanity's non-human reflection

In search of a cleaner world
Is green energy even possible?

The AI enigma
Is artificial intelligence a threat?

Profit, planet, and pretence
Can capitalism solve the climate crisis?

Who's afraid of the big, bad data?
Big data as a force for good

Science is broken
An interview with Helen Czerski

Mind over matter
The potential of mind-computer interface technology

The consciousness test
Is AI sentient?

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

The dawn of machine consciousness with Joscha Bach

AI, emotions and the tech evolution
Building a better world around AI

The dream and danger of AI
How to tame AI
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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