TalksTalks
Venue
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Date
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Time
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
EdBookFest

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Anton Hur & Shannon Vallor: The Unexpected Consequences of Progress image
Synopsis:

In The AI Mirror, EFI’s Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Shannon Vallor’s research explores how new technologies reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Novelist Antor Hur’s debut, Toward Eternity, imagines a world where technology is catching up to biology. They discuss AI’s real and imagined effects, and what will ‘being human’ mean in the future?