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Machine Ethics Podcast episodes
Hosted by Ben Byford and friends · EN
Discourse on AI Ethics.
News, explanation and Interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, creatives and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, responsible AI, machine learning, AGI, technology ethics, conciousness, philosophy and more.
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111. Effects of AI with Dietmar Fischer
Apr 1400:52:20Tap to summarizeThis month we're chatting with Dietmar Fischer about what we will mean by saying "AI" in the future? AI in science fiction, the fact that AI’s don’t want for anything, jobs and the political effects of unemployment, post-work society and defining what a good life is, the Chinese AI legislation, protecting young people from AI anthropomorphising, AI literacy, the AI bubble, Human extinction, and more
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110. Organoid Computing with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys
Mar 3100:44:26Tap to summarizeThis month we're chatting with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the uses of organoids and energy saving computing, the unknowns in neural science, differences between biological neurons and digital neural networks, how neurons operate and encoding information, the impractical nature of recreating brain structures, the tendency to anthropomorphise, determinism and more...
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109. Intelligence explosion with James Barrat
Mar 301:00:00Tap to summarizeThis episode James and I are trying to stay positive while chatting about: superintelligence, AI basic drives, and the alignment problem; The intelligence explosion, existential risks of AI; profit over responsibility, the super rich; AI regulation and much more
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108. Moral Agents with Jen Semler
Feb 400:44:18Tap to summarizeThis month we chatted in-person with Jen Semler. We chatted about what is AI? Philosophers and engineer collboartions, businesses working with ethicists, machine ethics and AMAs, what makes a moral agent, how to create a moral agent, types of moral decisions, the point of moral agents, how can we tell if a machine is conscious, tech companies being not democratic organisations and don’t have to adhere to their citizens, and more...
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107. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford
Jan 1300:42:05Tap to summarizeFor our 2025 round up episode we're again chatting with Lisa Talia Moretti on the prevalence of AI slop, the end of social media, Grok and explicit content generation, giving legislation more teeth, anthropomorphising reasoning models, AI literacy and safeguarding, fighting data centre construction, importantance of journalism, and AI chatbot bingo...
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106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano
Dec 301:01:23Tap to summarizeThis month we're chatting with Giulia Trojano about AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, deskilling of digital literacy, chatbot parental controls, differences between social AI and general AI services, increasing surveillance in the guise of safety, advertising creeping into GenAI services, ReplikaAI, lack of research in emotional AI, techno-determinism, and more...
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105. The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh
Nov 1901:00:53Tap to summarizeThis month we're chatting again with Tim El-Sheikh. We discuss podcasting, history of openAI, London startups, what are the AI use cases, is GenAI even safe? the AI bubble, snake oil salesmen, why do we need all these data centres? replacing human workers, data oligachies, the erosion of trust in AI, AI psychosis and more...
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104. Fostering morality with Dr Oliver Bridge
Oct 2900:43:36Tap to summarizeThis time we're chatting with Dr Oliver Bridge about machine ethics, superintelligence, virtue ethics, AI alignment, fostering morality in humans and AI, evolutional moral systems, socialising AI, and systems thinking...
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103. What excites you about AI? Vol.2
Sep 2700:10:32Tap to summarizeThis is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What excites you about AI?
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102. Autonomy AI with Adir Ben-Yehuda
Jul 2800:50:34Tap to summarizeThis episode Adir and I chat about Autonomy.ai–AI automation for frontend web development, where Human Machine Interface could be going? allowing an LLM to optimism itself, job displacement, vibe coding, Grok's MechaHitler, the ethics and guard rails of LLMs, and go be a plumber!?
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