Shannon Vallor, Ph.D.

Shannon Vallor is an ethicist and philosopher of AI and the acclaimed author of Technology and the Virtues and The A.I. Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. She serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, is Program Director for EFI’s MSc in Data and AI Ethics and holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy. From an early age she held a fascination with computing, robotics and space travel and the possibilities they hold to create a more humane future. Currently, she studies how we can reclaim technology as a moral practice and, in the process, create futures worth wanting.