Shannon Vallor

“Humane capabilities and virtues are more important than ever in an era of machine intelligence, as the ethical challenges that AI and autonomous systems generate will place new and increasingly complex demands on human moral wisdom. The HMI Project explores fundamental questions about how to shape a future in which humans and machines don’t compete in a zero-sum game, but instead inform and strengthen one another, in the long-term interest of human and planetary flourishing.”

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Shannon Vallor

Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and AI, University of Edinburgh

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. Professor Vallor's research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics, and data science, reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. She regularly advises policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI, and currently chairs Scotland's Data Delivery Group. She is a former Visiting Researcher and AI Ethicist at Google. In addition to her many articles on the ethics of new technologies, she is the author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016) and the forthcoming monograph Lessons from the AI Mirror: Rebuilding Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking.