Name: Liz McFall: The Data Civics Observatory by Edinburgh Futures Institute
Duration: 32 min 44 s
Description: In a frank and revealing discussion, sociologist and Professor Liz McFall charts her journey from growing up in West Lothian, Scotland, to exploring vital questions about democracy and data in the Data Civics Observatory which she leads at the Futures Institute. She also discusses her film, Closes and Opens: a history of Edinburgh’s Futures and Milton Keynes of the Mind.

Professor Shannon Vallor, Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and author of "The AI Mirror," explores how her background shaped her approach to research on the ethics of AI. For her, AI is a mirror to society, and she argues that we need to look to humans, not machines, for how to adapt to this emergent technology.

Shannon Vallor: The Ethics of AI

In a frank and revealing discussion, sociologist and Professor Liz McFall charts her journey from growing up in West Lothian, Scotland, to exploring vital questions about democracy and data in the Data Civics Observatory which she leads at the Futures Institute. She also discusses her film, Closes and Opens: a history of Edinburgh’s Futures and Milton Keynes of the Mind. 

Liz McFall: The Data Civics Observatory

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Liz McFall: The Data Civics Observatory

Edinburgh Futures Institute

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