My deepest thanks go to the members of the students’ assembly (SA) for their active engagement during the two days. Their spirit has created a safe, creative, and warm atmosphere for everyone to deliberate and create a fertile ground to turn ideas into bold principles. These members include Nathan Dana (MsC in Data and AI ethics), Luis Ernst (MsC in Data and AI ethics), Megan Rees-Gibbs (MsC in Education Futures) and Isabelle Sutton (MsC in Future Governance).

 

I am also grateful to the following group of experts for their time and contributions to the report: Siân Bayne (Director of the Center for Research in Digital Education), Mary Collacott (Learning Technologist at EFI), Vassilis Galanos (Teaching and Research Fellow in Science, Technology and Innovation studies at the School of Social and Political Science), Iñaki Goñi (PhD Student in Technology and Democracy at the School of Social and Political Science), Stuart King (Lecturer in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh), Joe Noteboom (PhD Student in Digital Education), Kate Orton Johnson (Director of Education at EFI), Javier Tejera (Learning Technologist at EFI) and Ben Williamson (Senior Lecturer in Digital Education at the Center for Research in Digital Education).

 

I would like to extend this gratitude to all those who have contributed to the successful completion of this project. The SA was coordinated with Clare Llewelyn (Lecturer in Governance, Technology and Data at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science) and Cristian Vaccari (Chair in Future Governance, Public Policy and Technology at the University of Edinburgh). I would like to thank them for their insightful feedback, expertise and support throughout the entire project. Additionally, I want to thank Claudia Chwalisz (CEO and Founder of Democracy Next), Siân Bayne, Stuart King and Vassilis Galanos who participated as experts in the SA and presented their research and perspectives on generative AI and deliberation.