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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 5d

Join us in-person for a guided discussion on fine-tuning LLMs with Lara Dal Molin. In this hands-on session, you can interact with the base version of the model before fine-tuning, discussing the ethical dimensions and shortcomings of fine-tuning

🗓️ 10th Oct, 4-5.30pm
⬇️ sign up:

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Fine-Tuning as Repair? Discussing and Testing a Large Language Model

Join us for a discussion on the practice of fine-tuning Large Language Models and test a model fine-tuned on Edinburgh-based perspectives!

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · Sep 5

if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Jun 9

👀another fascinating event on Friday discussing how metaphors shape our understanding of AI, thus direct design, development and implementation with real-world impacts
Thanks for the thought-proving talks and discussion @velocitygravity.bsky.social, Audrey Borowski, and Oksana Dorofeeva

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Meg Fereday @meg-fereday.bsky.social · Jun 9

got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew!

Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️

📸Daniel McGowan Photography

Meg (they/them) is standing at a lectern looking down at their notes and laughing. They're wearing a short-sleeved black turtleneck and iridescent-pink blue jeans. Behind them is a PowerPoint slide showing a close-up of some network graph data. A person with mid-length turquoise hair sits in front of the camera to the left of Meg, watching their presentation.

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Jun 5

🌈ran out of space but also many thanks to co-organiser @benedetta.bsky.social and of course all of you who joined us for this whirlwind of an evening!!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Jun 5

✨inspired and energised by our wonderful speakers at the Queer Data Showcase, hosted by fantastic @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social, supported by @prideinstem.bsky.social, and co-organised by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and yours truly @sj-bennett.bsky.social @velocitygravity.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social

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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · Jun 5

I am at this event right now and it's fucking incredible.

AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23

✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻

Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 23

TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for the Queer Data Showcase!

🗓️ Thursday 5 June 2025
📍 Pleasance, Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

Grab your ticket now: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · Jun 5

Queer Data Showcase has started! Massively excited about this @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social x Gender & Sexuality Lab collab.

@sj-bennett.bsky.social
@kevinguyan.bsky.social
@srravya.bsky.social
@meg-fereday.bsky.social
@mystikaglamoor.bsky.social

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Meg Fereday @meg-fereday.bsky.social · Jun 4

en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night!

Tickets here 👇
www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · May 30

✨only a week until this awesome panel discussing the role of mythmaking and metaphors in shaping AI, with @velocitygravity.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski!!

Still a couple of places left, you can sign up below 👇🏻

AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · May 16

🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A

🖊️ sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...

Digital Metaphors and Algorithmic Myths in the Past, Present, and Future

All welcome to our event with Audrey Borowski and Vassilis Galanos on the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary digital culture!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · May 26

🔥only a week and a half until this, where’s it’s the time to!! We still have a few tickets left, sign up below 👇🏻

AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23

✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻

Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 23

TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for the Queer Data Showcase!

🗓️ Thursday 5 June 2025
📍 Pleasance, Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

Grab your ticket now: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · May 16

🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A

🖊️ sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...

Digital Metaphors and Algorithmic Myths in the Past, Present, and Future

All welcome to our event with Audrey Borowski and Vassilis Galanos on the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary digital culture!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · May 8

✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva

👇🏻 Sign up here below

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-places...

The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work

Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva

👇🏻 Sign up here below

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-places...

The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work

Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 23

This first-of-its-kind event spotlights a curated selection of artists, academics and activists working with – or interested in – queer data as a material, concept, process or problem.

Co-organised by @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, @prideinstem.bsky.social and the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23

✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻

Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 23

TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for the Queer Data Showcase!

🗓️ Thursday 5 June 2025
📍 Pleasance, Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

Grab your ticket now: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

A bright and electric poster for the Queer Data Showcase showing the date, co-organisers and host (Mystika Glamoor).

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Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · Apr 9

📢 interested in how AI (re)enacts norms in medicine? Join this workshop I’m organising with @benedetta.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @chogberg.bsky.social, supported by @amoorelouise.bsky.social & AlgoSoc - contact us for more info

We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 9

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations

⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO

Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI

This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Apr 7

This 2-year post in the Edinburgh Law School will also work closely with me, Emily Sullivan, @zeerak.bsky.social and others in EFI’s Centre for @technomoralfutures.bsky.social! Come join us - apply by 2nd May

Teaching and Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Rule of Law

The Teaching and Research Fellow in in Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Rule of Law will pursue a research and teaching agenda addressing the interdisciplinary area linking together artificial in...

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 21

🔥the second panel was a candid conversation about building careers in turbulent times - reflecting on nonlinearity, precarity and the role of values in our career trajectories, with inspiring panellists @kevinguyan.bsky.social, Pushpi Bagchi and @mooseabyte.bsky.social and chaired by Aditi Surana

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 21

✨our first panel of the day discussing the messy realities of navigating bureaucracy, funding and ethics as early-career researchers in the academy - with the wonderful @mbarany.com, @velocitygravity.bsky.social and Tara Capel, chaired by @sj-bennett.bsky.social

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 21

🕺setting up for our Doctoral Colloquium in this fabulous Edinburgh Futures Institute room

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 14

Ah sorry, the room we’re using for the talk doesn’t facilitate hybrid - we’re working on this though, we’ll be advertising some hybrid and online talks soon!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations

⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO

Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI

This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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