Machine Ethics Podcast
91 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDiscourse on AI Ethics.
News, explanation and Interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, creatives and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, technology ethics and more.
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87. Good tech with Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney
April 02, 2024 13:39 - 53 minutes - 74 MBThis episode we're chatting with Eleanor and Kerry on what is good technology and is it even possible? Technology is political, watering down regulation, the magic of AI, the value of human creativity, how Feminism, Aboriginal, mixed race studies can help AI development? The performative nature tech and more...
86. What is AI? Vol.3
March 19, 2024 13:54 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBThis is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What is AI?
85. New forms of story telling with Guy Gadney
February 09, 2024 22:17 - 47 minutes - 63.9 MBThis episode we're chatting with Guy Gadney on new forms of story telling, placing people inside a story, natural language in games, LLM hype, data used in LLMs, copyright infringment, the destructive ideology of innovation, an unprecedented redistribution of wealth away from the cultural industries and more...
84. Review of 2023 with Karin Rudolph
January 02, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 86 MBFor our in-person episode on 2023 with Karin Rudolph we chat about the Future of Life Institute letter, existential risk of AI, TESCREAL, Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation from Google, the AI Safety Summit, EU AI act and legislating AI, neural rights and more...
83. Avoidable misery with Adam Braus
December 07, 2023 21:49 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBThis episode we're chatting with Adam Braus about natural stupidity, natural intelligence, misericordianism and avoidable misery, the drowning child thought experiment, natural state of morality, Donald Trump bot, Asimov’s rules, human instincts, the positive outcomes of AI and more...
82. Work, wellness and creativity with Harriet Pellereau
October 04, 2023 19:46 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBThis episode we're chatting with Harriet Pellereau about AI’s lack of reasoning ability, uses of generative AI, creativity and AI, what even is creativity? creative duties, new ways of working / digital working, 4 day week global, work life balance, the hidden cost of convenience, responsible tech and more...
81. The state of AI Ethics with Alice Thwaite
September 17, 2023 17:12 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBThis time I'm chatting to alice about teaching ethics, the idea of information environments, the importance of democracy, the Ethics hype train and the ethics community, people to follow in AI and Data Ethics, ethics as innovation and more...
80. Art and AI collaboration with Sarah Brin
September 17, 2023 17:11 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBThis time we're chatting with Sarah Brin about types of AI, the process of making artwork, how is an artwork culturally valuable, curatorial practise for AI art, unionising creative art workers, collaborative artwork with AI, using AI to help the climate emergency, AI in games and more...
79. Taming Uncertainty with Roger Spitz
July 11, 2023 10:13 - 1 hour - 101 MBThis time we chat with Roger Spitz about how to think about the future, what does a futurist do? Thriving with disruption, a chief existential officer, virtuous inflection points, delegating too much authority / decision making, our inappropriate education system
78. Design and AI with Nadia Piet
June 19, 2023 11:32 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBThis episode Nadia and I chat about how design can co-create AI, what the role of designers are in AI services? post-deployment design, narratives in AI development and AI ideologues, anthropocentric AI, augmented creativity, new AI perspectives, situated intelligences and more...
77. Doing Ethics with Marc Steen
May 23, 2023 08:26 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MBThis episode Marc Steen and I chat about: AI as tools, the ethics of business models, writing Ethics for People Who Work in Tech, the process of ethics - “doing ethics” and his three step process, misconceptions of ethics as compliance or a road block, evaluating ethical theories, universal rights, types of knowledges, what is the world we’re creating with AI?
76. The professionalisation of data science with Dr Marie Oldfield
April 17, 2023 17:03 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBThis episode we're talking with Dr Marie Oldfield on definitions of AI, the education and communication gaps with AI, explainable models, ethics in education, problems with audits and legislation, AI accreditation, importance of interdisciplinary teams, when to use AI or not, and harms from algorithms.
75. The moral status of non-humans with Josh Gellers
March 28, 2023 13:39 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBThis episode we talk with Josh Gellers about nature rights, rights for robots, non-human and human rights, justification for the attribution of rights, the sphere of moral importance, perspectives on legal and moral concepts, shaping better policy, the Lamda/Lemoine controversy, predicates of legal personhood, the heated discourse on robot rights, science fiction as a moral playground and more...
74. AI, ethics and the future - DFA talk special edition
March 11, 2023 14:38 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBIn this special edition episode with Data Science Festival we're hosting a panel discussing: what is ethics? Designing for Responsible AI, ethics as innovation and competitive advantage, ghost work, fairer AI, language as a human computer interface, cleaning up the web, technologies that shouldn’t be deployed and much more...
73. 2022 in review with Olivia Gamblin
February 01, 2023 15:51 - 1 hour - 107 MBFor this end of year episode I'm joined by Olivia Gamblinn to discuss: ethics boards, generative images models and copywrite, concept art, model bias and representation in the generative models, paying artists to appear in training sets, plagerism, chatGPT and when it breaks down, factual “truth” in text models, expectations for AI and digital technologies generally, limitations of AGI, inner life and the Chinese room, consciousness, robot rights, animal rights and getting into AI Ethics...
72. Algorithms with Social Impact with Mitchel Ondili
December 16, 2022 14:18 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBThis episode we talk with Mitchel Ondili on algorithm awareness, technology colonisation in the global south, OASI the registry for Algorithms with Social Impact, AI auditing, private vs public rights to consent, submitting your algorithms to OASI, hiring, and social services algorithms, the over datafication of life, or becoming an algorithmic subject, Intentionality of services and much more.
71. The Politics of AI with Mark Coeckelbergh
November 22, 2022 10:06 - 45 minutes - 63 MBThis episode we talk with Mark Coeckelbergh about AI as a story about machines and where are we heading in creating human level intelligence, moral standing and robot-animal interfaces, technology determinism, environmental impacts of robots and AI, energy budgets, politics and AI, self-regulation and global governance for global issues.
70. Rights, trust and ethical choice with Ricardo Baeza-Yates
August 24, 2022 20:43 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBThis episode we talk with Ricardo Baeza-Yates about: Responsible AI, the importance of AI governance, questioning people's intent to create AGI, robot rights and brain / neural rights, the evolution of intelligence, ethical risk assessment, machine ethics, making ethical choices on behalf of your users, binary notions of trust, stupid uses of AI and more...
69. AI ethics strategy with Reid Blackman
July 12, 2022 09:35 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBIn this episode we talk with Reid Blackman about: what is learning? What it means to be worthy of trust, bullsh**t AI principles, company values, purpose and use in decision making, his AI ethics risk strategy book, machine ethics as a fools errand, weighing metrics for measuring bias, ethics committees, police and the IRB. And much more...
68. Ethics of digital worlds with Richard Bartle
February 25, 2022 16:09 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBRichard Bartle joins us again after his appearance on ep.65 to chat about the metaverse, different ways to design AI controlled NPC, the lack of progress of AI in games, ethical considerations of games designers, ethics of AI life, virutalism, 'smart' AI will happened, robot rights and more...
67. AI Audits with Ryan Carrier
February 24, 2022 15:10 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MBThis episode we're chatting with Ryan Carrier about the positivity of the ForHumanity community, being compelled to do something about AI technologies negative impact, AI audits and topics including: trust, oversight, governance, privacy, cyber security, bias; creating an infrastructure of trust, disclosing found risks and the ethical decisions, the new industry of AI audits, human wellbeing as the whole point of business and more...
66. 2021 in review with Merve Hickok
January 03, 2022 11:24 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBThis episode Ben and Merve are chatting about 2021–EU AI legislation & harmonising AI product markets through policy, the UNESCO principles, systemic dogma, AI ethics in defence, Reith lectures and Lethal autonomous weapons, demonstrating values / principles and much more...
65. DeepDive: AI and Games
December 10, 2021 15:23 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBThis first Deepdive episode we talk to Amandine Flachs, Tommy Thompson and Richard Bartle about AI in games, it's history, it's uses and where its going. We discover NPCs, games as a test bed for AI research, different game AI techniques, back office uses of AI, job displacement, bad actors and possible futures...
64. Emotion detection with Andrew McStay
November 15, 2021 21:30 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBThis episode we're chatting with Andrew McStay about emotional human machine interface, emotion face and voice detection, emotion detection and hiring–and the possiblity of gaming these systems, interactive AI kids toys, the space between an ethical subject and an object in AI systems, raising children in an AI world, cultural differences in emotional profiling, emotional AI regulation.
63. AI readiness with Tim El-Sheikh
October 10, 2021 21:28 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBThis episode we're talking with Tim El-Sheikh of Nebuli.com. We chat about definitions of intelligence and augmented intelligence, ethical AI as the smarter AI, importance of a businesses AI strategy and getting data ready, AGI and what is conciousness? Human intuition, privacy as a human right and more...
62. What excites you about AI? Vol.1
September 03, 2021 14:58 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What excites you about our AI mediated future? We chat about rethinking our responsibility towards our world, algorithms that work for everyone not just the a few, social justice, solving coordination problems and humanitarian problems, growing as a humanity, building with the next generation in mind, and more...
62. What excites you about AI?
September 03, 2021 14:58 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What excites you about our AI mediated future? We chat about rethinking our responsibility towards our world, algorithms that work for everyone not just the a few, social justice, solving coordination problems and humanitarian problems, growing as a humanity, building with the next generation in mind, and more...
61. Welcome to the Machine Ethics podcast
August 26, 2021 15:35 - 3 minutes - 4.49 MBShort introduction to the podcast: what it is about, when it started, and how to get involved.
60. Responsible AI Research with Madhulika Srikumar
August 25, 2021 09:05 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBThis time we're talking AI research with Madhulika Srikumar of Partnership on AI. We chat about managing the risks of AI research, how should the AI community think about the consequences of their research, documenting best practises for AI, OpenAI's GTP2 research disclosure example, considering unintended consequences & negative downstream outcomes, considering what your research may actually contribute, promoting scientific openness, proportional ethical reflection, research social impact ...
59. What scares you about AI? Vol.1
August 10, 2021 08:04 - 16 minutes - 23 MBIn this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What scares you about our AI mediated future? We chat gender imbalance and lack of diversity, digital personhood, climate change, ubiquitous surveillance, deep-fakes, people misusing AI, human hubris, capitalism getting in the way and more...
59. What scares you about AI?
August 10, 2021 08:04 - 16 minutes - 23 MBIn this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What scares you about our AI mediated future? We chat gender imbalance and lack of diversity, digital personhood, climate change, ubiquitous surveillance, deep-fakes, people misusing AI, human hubris, capitalism getting in the way and more...
58. AI regulation with Lofred Madzou
July 19, 2021 09:51 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBWe chat with Lofred Madzou about AI as a journey to understand ourselves through smart machines, scepticism about wholesale job lose, understanding that “you are not your data”, dissecting the European proposal for AI regulation, examples of types of AI activities under regulation, the spirit of the regulation - human rights centric, risk based approaches, infringement exposition and compliance...
57. Value Sensitive Design with Steven Umbrello
July 01, 2021 08:00 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBWe're talking with Steven Umbrello about transhumanism, his passion for philosophy and it's practical applications, Value sensitive design a modular design practise, technologies co-constructing society, integrating VSD using agile workflows, issues of principles, moral imagination and more...
56. What is AI? 2
June 16, 2021 15:16 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBThis episode is our second bonus compilation of answers from previous years of interviews asking the question: What is AI? We hear from past interviewees Jess Smith, Rishal Hurbans, Jacob Turner, Cennydd Bowles, Joanna J Bryson, Damien Williams, Olivia Gamelin, David Gunkel, Bertram Malle, David Yakobovitch, Luciano Floridi, Lydia Nicholas.
56. What is AI? Vol.2
June 16, 2021 15:16 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBThis episode is our second bonus compilation of answers from previous years of interviews asking the question: What is AI? We hear from past interviewees Jess Smith, Rishal Hurbans, Jacob Turner, Cennydd Bowles, Joanna J Bryson, Damien Williams, Olivia Gamelin, David Gunkel, Bertram Malle, David Yakobovitch, Luciano Floridi, Lydia Nicholas.
55. Speculative design with Phil Balagtas
June 01, 2021 13:55 - 45 minutes - 62 MBWe're chatting with Phil Balagtas about speculative & critical design, speculative design as a strategy tool, using design as a what if tool, or a story to strive for, The Design Futures Initiative, doing meanful work, and getting to real trust in mission critical AI...
54. The business of AI ethics with Josie Young
March 27, 2021 11:16 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBThis episode we're chatting with the amazing Josie Young on making businesses more efficient, how the AI ethics landscape changed over the last 5 years, ethics roles and collaborations, feminist AI and chatbots, responsible AI at Microsoft, ethics push back from teams and selling in AI ethics, disinformation’s risk to democracy and more...
53. Comedy and AI with Anthony Jeannot
March 22, 2021 16:21 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBA laid back episode of the podcast where Anthony and I chat about Netflix and recommender systems, finding comedy in AI, AI written movies and theatre, human content moderation, bringing an AI Ben back from the dead, constructing jokes recursively and much more...
52. Algorithmic discrimination with Damien Williams
March 01, 2021 09:09 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBThis episode we chat with Damien Williams about types of human and algorithmic discrimination, human-technology expectations and norms, algorithms and benefit services, the contextual nature of sample data, is face recognition even a good idea? Should we be scared that GTP-3 will take our jobs and the cultural value of jobs, encoding values into autonomous beings, culture and mothering AI, AI and dogma, and more...
51. AGI Safety and Alignment with Robert Miles
January 13, 2021 10:09 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBThis episode we're chatting with Robert Miles about why we even want artificial general intelligence, general AI as narrow AI where its input is the world, when predictions of AI sound like science fiction, covering terms like: AI safety, the control problem, Ai alignment, specification problem; the lack of people working in AI alignment, AGI doesn’t need to be conscious, and more
50. Privacy and the end of the data economy with Carissa Veliz
December 31, 2020 08:01 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBThis episode we're chatting with Carissa Véliz on the transforming of power, how personal data is toxic, end of the data economy, dangers of privacy violations, differential privacy, what you can do to help, ethics committees and more...
49. 2020 rambling chat with Ben Gilburt and Ben Byford
December 30, 2020 16:59 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBThis episode Ben and Ben are chatting about 2020 - Timnit Gebru leaving google, the promise of AI and COVID-19, Kaggle's COVID competition, GTP3, test and trace apps and privacy, AI Ethics bookclub, AI ethics courses, when transparency is good or bad, alpha fold, and more...
48. Jessie Smith co-designing AI
November 25, 2020 20:19 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBThis episode we're chatting with Jess Smith about the Radical AI podcast and defining the word radical, what is AI - non-living ability to learn… maybe, AI consciousness, the responsibility of technologists, robot rights, what makes us human, creativity and more...
47. Robot Rights with David Gunkel
October 20, 2020 15:13 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBThis episode we're chatting with David Gunkel on AI ideologies, why write the Robots Rights book, what are rights and categories of rights, computer ethics and hitch bot, anthropomorphising as a human feature, supporting environmental rights through this endeavour of robot rights, relational ethics, and acknowledging the western ethical view point.
46. Belief Systems and AI with Dylan Doyle-Burke
October 04, 2020 10:28 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBThis month we're chatting with Dylan Doyle-Burke of the Radical AI podcast about starting the podcast, new religions and how systems of belief relate to AI, faith and digital participation, digital death and memorial, what does it mean to be human, and much more...
45. Responsible AI with Maria Axente
August 31, 2020 13:45 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBThis month we're chatting with Maria Luciana Axente about responsible AI, defining AI ethic terms and collaboration, where does the interest in AI ethics come from within organisations, how is it ethics for AI is related to good business outcomes, the connection of ethics and risk and much more...
44. Moral Machines with Rebecca Raper
August 04, 2020 14:17 - 53 minutes - 73 MBThis month we go back to our roots with an episode about Machine Ethics with Rebecca Raper. We chat about Moral machines and why make them, morals as constraints, moral capacity and approaches to machine ethics, machine moral ontologies, legislation vs innovation and more...
43. Reskilling with David Yakobovitch
June 30, 2020 18:56 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MBThis month we're zooming with David Yakobovitch, chatting about data science education, where is the industry going, the importance of data protection and ethics, transhumanism and discrimination, reimagining the world after covid and much more.
42. Probability & moral responsibility with Olivia Gambelin
May 04, 2020 12:21 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBThis month we're speaking to Olivia Gambelin about: what should and shouldnt be automated, the importance of human connection, call for ethics, what are ethics, where is value created in data, probability intuition of automated cars and the the moral gap, and more.
41. Art & AI with Eva Jäger & Mercedes Bunz
April 20, 2020 13:39 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBThis month we're speaking to both Eva Jäger & Mercedes Bunz on the topic of AI in Art. We discuss AI design interfaces, artificial stupidity, AI and the art market, the curation of AI art, the creative AI lab at the Serpentine Gallery a space for learning collaboration, work in progress and tools...