Holly Warner

Holly Warner is a Postdoctoral Researcher on The New Real programme at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, working on technology transitions within the Experiential AI research group. Her research interests focus on technological futures, fostering resilience in the digital pivot, human-centred creative AI, AI art, and explainable artificial intelligence. She completed her PhD in 2020 at the University of St Andrews examining creative praxis and technological mediation, with regard to digital and analogue hardware, and an ethnographic research focus on phenomenologies of sound and compositional process. Prior to her role at the University of Edinburgh she worked with an existential risk NGO researching emerging technologies and AI governance. She holds an MSc from University of Edinburgh and an MA from Queen’s University Belfast.