Excited to finally share that my job hunt is over!

In November I’ll be joining @ShannonVallor & the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh Informatics as a Chancellor’s Fellow. 🎉🎉🎉

AND I will be recruiting a PhD student to join me!

I will start to build my lab, which will focus on topics on the ethics of machine learning, hate speech and privacy preservation:
In short, if ML and fundamental rights sound like your jam, reach out!

“What happens to humanity when all we can see is its reflection?”, asks Prof. @ShannonVallor at the #BeingHuman in the Age of #AI conference. https://x.com/smithbarryc/status/1793658526759588225?s=46&t=boQbt8PsLtW-dcWlDwejYQ

Deadline extended to 7 Feb to apply to this new postdoc position in Edinburgh’s Dept of Philosophy, part of the UKRI Responsible AI Ecosystem programme co-led by me and Ewa Luger. Looking for an early career researcher excited to join an interdisciplinary team and work with stakeholders in AI policy, government, industry and civil society. The post is through Oct 2025; please share! https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/6111/?utm_medium=jobshare

That’s not how this works.
That’s not how any of this works

@alanbsmith that would induce the actual death part and I am trying to avoid that particular scenario

@ginahelfrich happy new year! Looking forward to a great 2023. So grateful to be working with you

If you're reading this, you made it. Good job.

Deep breath. Here we go again. I'm rooting for you.

Ada Lovelace, née Augusta Ada Byron, was born #OTD in 1815. A mathematician and arguably the first published computer programmer, she offered a prescient vision of what computing would become.
Portrait: Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1836)

I...do not understand how electricity works.

Not Death in the Afternoon but a NYE Death in the Wee Hours!

Finished Die Hard 90 seconds before midnight and got the bubbly in the glasses just in time for Auld Lang Syne. Happy New Year all! May 2023 bring joy and solidarity to us all

@voron god I’ve always hated hashtags. But thanks for the tip, I’ll do my best!

@daniel Andor without question, also The Peripheral, Station Eleven, The Old Man, Abbott Elementary, Severance

And so it begins

The Boston University School of Public Health is withdrawing from Twitter.

The dean’s thoughtful, nuanced explanation raises the question: Why are other institutions still there?

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/reconsidering-our-engagement-with-twitter/

I am really, really bad at posting on Mastodon. But I will get better, I promise, because Twitter is an ever-widening hellhole. In the meantime, here's a PDRA job we are hiring for at Edinburgh as part of our new UKRI AHRC Responsible AI Ecosystem programme! Please boost or toot or retoot or whatever we do here. If you or someone you know wants to work at Edinburgh with me (+ Ewa Luger + Ada Lovelace Institute), click below! Applications close Jan 18, funded to Oct 2025. https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/6111/?utm_medium=jobshare

These @CentreTMFutures PhD are sharp… “does climate AI perpetuate existing power structures?” If you account for the embedded energy and economic capital invested in AI Tech this is a tough one - big tech will always say it’s doing good @UoE_EFI @ShannonVallor

RT @Dr_Atoosa@twitter.com

Excited for the launch of our interdisciplinary MSc program in Data and AI Ethics
@UoE_EFI@twitter.com @EdinburghUni@twitter.com
in September 2023. This program is co-developed @CentreTMFutures@twitter.com
by wonderful colleagues
@ShannonVallor@twitter.com @JohnZerilli@twitter.com @jgarforth@twitter.com, myself and others. Read more in the 🧵 👇🏻 https://twitter.com/ShannonVallor/status/1593398533591388163

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Dr_Atoosa/status/1593598488499175424

I love you all very much ❤️ here’s a pic of Jean nobody has seen before. She says don’t worry, comrades

Please share this around: ANU welcoming applications from early career women in philosophy for visiting fellowships in 2023
https://philjobs.org/job/show/22277