ABOUT ME
I'm a philosopher of AI and a writer of books about how new technologies reshape human character. I grew up fascinated by the promise of computing, robotics, and space travel to allow us to shape a more humane future. Today that dream is drifting further away, as we lock ourselves into ever more unsustainable social and environmental patterns. Despite being marketed as the keys to our future, the AI technologies that dominate the headlines today only tend to amplify and reinforce those patterns. Can AI help us unweave them instead? Can we use it to strengthen the virtues of human wisdom, care, and creativity, rather than to devalue and replace them? My work seeks to reclaim technology's roots as a moral practice: finding new and better techniques for the care and service of life with others, and the humane engineering of futures worth wanting. |
Baillie Gifford Chair of the Ethics of Data and AI at the University of Edinburgh efi.ed.ac.uk/people/shannon-vallor/ Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute www.technomoralfutures.uk Co-Director, BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) www.braiduk.org Standing Member, One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence https://ai100.stanford.edu/ |