Pip Thornton

Dr Pip Thornton is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, and a Research Fellow on the AHRC funded Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) program where she leads the Writing the Wrongs of AI project. With an academic background in English Literature, Geopolitics and Cybersecurity, her theory and practice explore the changing value of language in (post)digital spaces, critiquing and making visible structures of power within the digital economy with creative methods. Her artistic intervention ‘Newspeak’ which critiques the commodification of language by Google’s search and advertising platforms was shortlisted for the 2020 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology and was awarded an honourable mention in the Surveillance Studies Network Biennial Art Competition (2020). Pip’s work has featured on BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen, in WIRED UK, New Scientist, and at the Open Data Institute in London.