Decoding Humanity: PTRG-CRITIQUE Lecture with Prof Shannon Vallor (EDI)(5 March)

Wednesday 5th March, 3pm – 5pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 2
A code is a tool for hiding things of value. Yet codes also grant access to what has been hidden and locked away. Join Prof Shannon Vallor for this lecture exploring the role of code, and coding, in both hiding and granting access to our humanity, in multiple senses of the word.
As a philosophical provocation, it offers a challenge to the core values and aims of modern computing, those most deeply embedded in today’s rush toward algorithmic automation, and asks how those aims might be remade in the service of humane futures.