Meet the speaker:

Shannon Vallor

Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence,

University of Edinburgh

Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, where she serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new technologies, and she advises the government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI.

She is Co-Director of the UKRI’s Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem research programme, author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016) and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology (2022). She is the recipient of multiple awards for teaching, scholarship and public engagement, including the 2015 World Technology Award in Ethics.

Talks & Content

2023

Shannon Vallor – Who is Responsible for ‘Responsible AI’? The Ecologies of a Responsible AI Ecosystem

This talk confronts the urgent challenge of building a responsible AI ecosystem in the UK. Shannon will explain why in the light of recent AI advances a responsible AI ecosystem is essential for UK innovation, and she will map the public, corporate and engineering ‘ecologies’ that must share new responsibilities in that ecosystem.