ABSTRACT
Shannon Vallor holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute, where she directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures. A Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, her research explores the ethics of emerging science and technologies. Her current project focuses on the impact of emerging technologies—particularly those involving automation and AI—on the moral and intellectual habits, skills, and virtues of human beings: our character. Prof. Vallor is the author of a 2016 book, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, and the forthcoming The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. She currently codirects the UK’s BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) research program and regularly advises the government and industry on responsible AI design and use.
