Past Events
6 December 2023, 16:00-18:00 GMT
AIES Film Screening - Die Puppe [The Doll] (1919) with live music
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22 November 2023, 16:00-17:30 GMT
Tim Clausnitzer - Searching and Creating Use Contexts for Collaborative Robots
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3 November 2023, 16:00-17:30 GMT
Tom Williams - Powerplay: Dismantling the White Patriarchal origins of robotics
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25 October 2023, 16:00-17:30 BST
AIES Reading Group - Machine Learning Political Orders
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11 October 2023, 16:00-17:30 BST
Aakansha Natani - AI Driven Challenges in Diverse Societies
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31 May 2023, 15:00-16:30 BST
AIES Reading Group - Queer Data and the Limit of LGBTQ+ Inclusion, with Kevin Guyan
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8 Mar 2023, 15:00-16:30 GMT
AIES Reading Group - The Political Economy of AI Ethics, led by Joe Noteboom
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24 Nov 2022, 15:00 - 16:30 GMT
Alexander Campolo and Katia Schwerzmann - From Rules to Examples: Machine Learning’s Mode of Authority
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27 Oct 2022, 10:00 - 17:00 BST
AIES Doctoral Colloquium
12 Oct 2022, 15:00 - 16:30 BST
Milagros Miceli, Why Talk About Bias When We Mean Power? Shifting the Research Focus in AI and Data Ethics
1 Jun 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Larissa Pschetz, Push-pull energy futures, and the design of everyday transactions
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20 Apr 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Alessandra Fassio, Data for Good? A reflection on the application of data ethics frameworks in the third sector
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23 Mar 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Beverley Hood, It’s all about the feelings…a pilot performance art project looking at AI and emotion
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23 Feb 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Florian Jaton, Assessing biases, relaxing moralism: On ground-truthing practices in machine learning design and application
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8 and 15 Dec 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Book discussion: Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock
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20 Oct 2021, 15:00 - 16:30 BST
Andrew McStay, Automating Empathy: Trajectory, Implications, and Citizen Views.
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6 Oct 2021, 15:00 - 16:30 BST
Sabelo Mhlambi, Can AI Ethics actually fix AI?
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23 Jun 2021, 15:00 - 16:30 BST
Caroline Sinders, Art as Activism: How Art can help Unpick the Social Impacts of AI
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9 Jun 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Maria De-Arteaga, Aida Ponce Del Castillo, Human(s) in and out of the loop: Perspectives from practice, policy, and workplace
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12 May 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Examining the EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Insights from Emotional AI and other Areas - led by Robbie Scarff (University of Edinburgh).
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21 Apr 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
The Behavioural Code: How does behaviourism influence recommender systems? - led by Marit Femke de Jong & Dr. Robert Prey (University of Groningen)
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31 Mar 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Nick Seaver, Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation
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10 Mar 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Values or Ethics? Understanding Data-Driven Innovation as Valuation Work - led by Chris Elsden (University of Edinburgh)
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24 Feb 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Paper discussion: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? - led by Sarah Bennett (University of Edinburgh)
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27 Jan 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Ben Collier, Influence Government: State Use of Targeted Advertising
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9 Dec 2020, 15:00 - 16:30
Paper discussion: Lessons from Archives: Strategies for Collecting Sociocultural Data in Machine Learning - led by Benedetta Catanzariti (University of Edinburgh)
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25 Nov 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Paper discussion: Pics, Dicks, Tits, And Tats - led by Yazmin Morlet Corti (University of Edinburgh)
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11 Nov 2020, 15:00 - 16:30
Simone Stumpf, Making AI Intelligible and Controllable (and maybe a little bit more ethical)
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14 Oct 2020 - 15:00 - 16:30
Paper discussion: The return of the social: Algorithmic Identity In An Age Of Symbolic Demise, Dan M. Kotliar - led by Vassilis Galanos (University of Edinburgh)
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