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Festival Gala: A Toast to the Future

Saturday 10 August 17:00 - 18:30

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Our Future Tense theme asks us all to consider the kind of future we want to share. In tonight’s gala event, we bring you a kaleidoscope of perspectives and provocations, from the hopeful to the portentous. Be inspired, challenged, and delighted by…
 

Writing the Wrongs of AI

Saturday 10 August 17:30 - 18:30

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Writers vs AI? Heather Parry, Sam Riviere, Francis Bickmore, and Pip Thornton discuss the findings from Writing the Wrongs of AI: a pioneering series of workshops led by Thornton (University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Fellow in GeoSciences), in…
 

Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us

Monday 12 August 12:15 - 13:15

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Two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems. Hear Financial Times AI editor Madhumita Murgia (author of Code Dependent) and artist and academic Georgina Voss (author of…
 

Susie Alegre & Shami Chakrabarti: What Makes Us Human

Tuesday 13 August 17:00 - 18:00

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In a vital conversation two authors examine threats to human rights in the 21st century from different angles. Baroness Shami Chakrabarti’s Human Rights reasserts the case for dignity and universal freedoms in the face of increasing authoritarianism…
 

Anton Hur & Shannon Vallor: The Unexpected Consequences of Progress

Wednesday 14 August 11:00 - 12:00

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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…
 

Page Against the Machine: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Monday 19 August 18:00 - 19:00

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Human Verses Machine is a performative intervention developed as part of Pip Thornton's BRAID Fellowship project Writing the Wrongs of AI. Designed by Ray Interactive with the help of the WWAI participants, Human Verses Machine invites writers and…