Shaping AI, Shaping Ourselves: Thinking Together with Shannon Vallor
Saturday, 25 April
16:30 – 17:15
Room: Salle de Guichets
Prof. Shannon Vallor, Co-Director, Centre for Technomoral Futures, author The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Prof. Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair of the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, where she serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and the UKRI BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme. Professor Vallor’s research explores how AI and robotics reshape human character and capabilities. She is a former AI Ethicist at Google, a standing member of Stanford University’s 100-Year Study of Artificial Intelligence, and the 2026 recipient of the Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association. Her most recent book is The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press 2024).
Moderator: Seden Anlar, Journalist, Climate Communicator
Seden Anlar is a Brussels-based multimedia journalist, moderator, and podcast producer focused on human rights and holding power to account through storytelling. Over the past eight years, she has produced more than a dozen podcasts on climate, migration, social, and tech justice—reaching over 200,000 listeners across Europe and beyond, combining rigorous reporting with audience-centred storytelling to connect the dots between borders, histories, and movements.
