2023

10 September 2023

‘Moral coding: Ethics and AI’ Imagining Futures: AI on Film Discussion panel on the films iHUMAN and The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. URL

2022

28 June 2022	‘Beyond the brain’ Edinburgh Impact Discussion of how the arts and humanities interacts with recent philosophical work on distributed cognition. URL
25 May 2022	‘4E, The Chinese Room argument, predictive coding’ The Embodied AI Podcast, episode 3 ~2 hour chat with Akseli Ilmanen about embodied AI in a number of different contexts, supported by the British Neuroscience Association. URL

2021

30 November 2021	‘Philosophy of the extended mind exhibited in contemporary art’ University of Edinburgh Video introducing the collaboration between the Talbot Rice Gallery and our research group on distributed cognition. URL
22 September 2021	‘Computation and the mind’ Brain Inspired podcast, episode 114 ~2 hour chat with Mazviita Chirimuuta and Paul Middlebrooks about cognitive neuroscience, the brain, and computation. URL

2020

27 November 2020

‘The art of the extended mind’ Forward Thinking blog Discussion of collaborative events held between philosophers and artists at the Talbot Rice Gallery and Playfair Library. URL

2019

10–13 December 2019	‘Exploring the extended mind’ Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Three 1-hour sessions with Scottish Primary 5 children and teachers (Royal Mile Primary). Workshops consisted of games, discussion, and art making exploring the art of distributed cognition. URL
2 November 2019– 1 February 2020	‘The Extended Mind’ Exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Artworks from 13 international artists, including newly commissioned work, explore and disseminate key ideas from the History of Distributed Cognition project. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). URL
9 October 2019	‘Fears and dreams of intelligent machines’ EdIntelligence (Machine Learning Society), Informatics, University of Edinburgh Ticketed event, sold out, 300 people. Talks and panel discussion on the future of artificial intelligence with Dr Kanta Dihal, Professor Amos Storkey and Dr Robin Hill. URL
13 August 2019	‘Alan Turing inquest verdict is questionable’ The Guardian Letter challenging widely-reported assumptions about the death of Alan Turing. URL
13 June 2019	‘A history of distributed cognition’ Edinburgh University Press blog Discussion of the four-volume history of distributed cognition on its launch. URL
9 May 2019	‘To make sense of the present, brains may predict the future’ Quanta Science Podcast Interviewed on podcast episode about predictive coding by Jordana Cepelewicz. URL
22 March 2019	‘The Turing Test live’ National Museum of Scotland Interactive event on the Turing Test, part of ‘Robots Retro Film Night’ special event to open the Museum’s ‘Robots’ special exhibition.

2018

25 May 2018	‘Robots who know themselves’ Annual Public Lecture for Leverhulme Project ‘What’s So Special about First-Person Thought?’, University of Aberdeen Part of Aberdeen’s May Festival. Ticketed event, sold out, 89 people. URL
3 April 2018	‘Who lives and who drives?’ Edinburgh International Science Festival Summerhall, Edinburgh. Ticketed event, sold out, 100 people. Panel discussion on the ethics of AI with Professor Lilian Edwards and Dr Tyron Louw. URL
10 July 2018	‘To make sense of the present, brains may predict the future’ Quanta Magazine Contributed to this comprehensive review article on predictive coding by Jordana Cepelewicz. URL

2017

6–10 April 2017	‘Seeing Minds Online’ Edinburgh International Science Festival 5-day drop-in activity at the National Museum of Scotland. Received approximately 1,500 visitors. Rated as 2nd most popular drop-in activity in festival (out of 15 events). Selected for festival as 1 of only 2 events from College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in University of Edinburgh.
12 May 2017	‘Thinking with Things – 2nd Schools workshop’ National Museum of Scotland Two 1.5 hour workshops with Scottish Primary 7 children (Inverkeithing Primary School and North Queensferry Primary). ~25 children each class. Workshops consisted of games, discussion, treasure hunt in museum on the theme of history of distributed cognition.
20 March 2017	‘Thinking with Things – 1st Schools workshop’ National Museum of Scotland Two 1.5 hour workshops with Scottish Primary 7 children (Cairneyhill Primary School and Torryburn Primary School, Fife). ~25 children each class. Workshops consisted of games, discussion, treasure hunt in museum on the theme of history of distributed cognition.
15 March 2017	‘Thinking with Things’ National Museum of Scotland blog Discussion of collaboration between National Museum of Scotland and the History of Distributed Cognition project. URL

2016

8 October 2016

‘Thinking with Things’ National Museum of Scotland Ticketed event, 106 participants. Public talks, performances, and discussion with curators of distributed cognition with artefacts from the museum. URL

2015

7 December 2015	‘Will Machines Rule the World?’ Forum for European Philosophy (FEP) London School of Economics. Panel discussion with audience of ~400 people URL
13 February 2015	‘Museum Lates: Game Masters’ National Museum of Scotland Interactive event on the Turing Test. Selected as 1 of 2 representatives of University of Edinburgh. Ticketed event, sold out, 1,800 participants
7 October 2015	‘Turing Test: Man or Machine?’ Midlothian Science Festival Sheltered Housing, Crystalmount, High Street, Dalkeith. Interactive event on the Turing Test. 1-hour public talk and interactive event.

2014

16 October 2014	‘Turing Test: Man or Machine?’ Midlothian Science Festival Penicuik Library. 1-hour public talk and interactive event. Ticketed event, sold out, 30 participants.
26 September 2014	‘Meet the Experts @ the National Museum of Scotland’ Explorathon, Scotland’s European Researchers’ Night National Museum of Scotland. Interactive event on the Turing Test.
19 May 2014	‘Falling in Love with AI’ British Science Association’s Sci-Screen Cineworld, Edinburgh. Talk pre- and post-screening of ‘Her’ by Spike Jonze. National Museum of Scotland. Ticketed event, sold out, 90 participants.
24 April 2014	‘Take the Turing Test’ The Knowledge Exchange Summerhall, Edinburgh. Showcase of best knowledge exchange in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Turing Test demonstration with 50 participants. Ticketed event, sold out, 90 participants.
17 April 2014	‘Does technology make you smarter?’ Edinburgh Science Festival Ticketed 1-hour talk and interactive event, sold out, targeted at parents and young children.
5 April 2014	‘Smarter phones, smarter people?’ The Big Idea Podcast Panel discussion on technology and learning. URL
20 March 2014	‘What is the difference between you and a computer?’ Screening of ‘The Singularity’ by Doug Wolens Screening of ‘The Singularity’ by Doug Wolens, and discussion with director and panel. Interactive Turing Test before and after screening. Ticketed event, sold out, 180 people.