Dr Tom Boylston is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology with research/teaching interests in psychotherapy, technology, and play. His recent work has focused on selfhood and mental health at the interface between humans and technology, especially videogames and Large Language Models/AI.

Dr Vaishak Belle is Reader at the University of Edinburgh, an Alan Turing Fellow, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He has made a career out of doing research on the science and technology of AI.