The Centre for Technomoral Futures represents one of EFI’s cross-cutting themes: the ethical implications of data analytics and artificial intelligence. This theme also underpins the University of Edinburgh’s Strategy 2030 aim – to become a global leader in artificial intelligence and the use of data with integrity.
The Centre’s current portfolio of activities, supported by an initial gift from the global investment firm Baillie Gifford, focuses on the ethical implications of present and future advances in AI, machine learning and other data-driven technologies.
The Centre for Technomoral Futures will eventually occupy the new home of the Edinburgh Futures Institute in the restored old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Lauriston Place.
The Centre is led by Director Shannon Vallor, the Baillie Gifford Chair in Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Professor Vallor holds an appointment in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy and chairs the University’s AI and Data Ethics Advisory Board.
