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Keynote Public Event
Monday
04
November
How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking?

How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking?

Shannon Vallor, Mia Perry, Claude Bruderlein, Jérôme Duberry
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Maison de la paix, Petal 2, A1B

For many, technology offers hope for the future—that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape.

Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past. Rejecting prophecies of doom, she encourages us to pursue technology that helps us recover our sense of the possible, and with it the confidence and courage to repair a broken world. Vallor calls us to rethink what AI is and can be, and what we want to be with it.

Join us for our keynote by Prof. Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh Futures Institute) followed by a panel discussion on AI literacy for diplomats and experts from international Geneva.

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Introductory words by Prof. Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute. 

 

Keynote speaker

 

Shannon Vallor

 

 

 

 


 

Prof. Shannon Vallor
Prof. Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh where she is also appointed in Philosophy. She is Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in EFI, and co-Director of the BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Professor Vallor's research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics, and data science, reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Her work includes advising policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. She is a standing member of the One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence (AI100) and a member of the Oversight Board of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Professor Vallor received the 2015 World Technology Award in Ethics from the World Technology Network and the 2022 Covey Award from the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. She is a former Visiting Researcher and AI Ethicist at Google. In addition to her many articles and published educational modules on the ethics of data, robotics, and artificial intelligence, she is the author of the book Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016) and The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press, 2024).
 

 

Panelists

 

Mia Perry

 

 

 

 

 


Mia Perry
Professor of Arts and Literacies in Education based at the School of Education in the University of Glasgow

 

 Claude Bruderlein

 

 

 

 

 

Claude Bruderlein
Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health Senior and Researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
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Moderator

 

Jérôme Duberry

 

 

 

 


 

Jérôme Duberry
Managing Director of the Tech Hub, Co-Director Ad-Interim, Executive Education, and Senior Researcher at the Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy (AHCD)
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This public event is jointly organised by the Tech Hub and Executive Education in the context of an academic conference on AI literacy for diplomats.

 

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