Machine Ethics Podcast

41. Art & AI with Eva Jäger & Mercedes Bunz

April 20, 2020 13:39 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MB

This 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...

40. AI alignment with Rohin Shah

March 11, 2020 09:23 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB

This month we're talking to Rohin Shah about alignment problems in AI, constraining AI behaviour, current AI vs future AI, recommendation algorithms and extremism, appropriate uses of AI, the fuzziness of fairness, and Rohin’s love of coordination problems.

39. Our AI intentions with Rishal Hurbans

February 07, 2020 15:11 - 45 minutes - 63.2 MB

This month I'm talking to the lovely Rishal Hurbans about the AI scene in South Africa, ethics as an important part of the intro to the book Grokking AI Algorithms, what Black Mirror can teach us about AI, going past ethical principles, why expert systems were omitted from the book and much more.

38. Automation and Utopia with John Danaher

January 14, 2020 11:06 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MB

This month I'm talking to the prolific John Danaher about cyborg and digital utopias, why you should hate your job, the idea of robot tax, behaviourism, and theories of moral standing.

37. Social robots with Bertram Malle

November 26, 2019 11:49 - 1 hour - 83.9 MB

This month we're talking to the gracious Bertram Malle about social robots, whether people react differently to robots in different context, how can we build trust and destroy it, explainable AI, what is a moral robot, possible futures, and much more...

36. Metrics for wellbeing with John C. Havens

November 15, 2019 10:49 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MB

This month we're talking to John C. Havens about his work on IEEE's ethically aligned design, human rights & access to and data agency, signalling a persons values in respect to their personal data, GDP being an insignificant metric for our future, making sure no one is left out of the room when designing technology, and more...

35. Moral reasoning with Marija Slavkovik

September 24, 2019 10:58 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MB

This month we're talking to the amazing Marija Slavkovik about a new language for talking about machine intelligence, expert systems and AI history, unchecked bot networks on the internet, how our technology doesn’t work for us, collective reasoning & judgment aggregation.

34. AI for Humans with Rob McCargow

July 30, 2019 11:43 - 45 minutes - 62 MB

This month I have a lovely chat with Rob McCargow Director of AI at PWC. We chat AI modelling unintended consequences, AI ethics audits, working with companies with dubious intentions, what we should be teaching our children, a recipe for an AI future mitigating job displacement and much more.

33. ORGcon special edition episode

July 16, 2019 09:54 - 45 minutes - 63 MB

This month I'm releasing two episodes, the first of which is a bonus episode recorded at ORGcon2019. I talk to the audience and speakers of ORGcon about human rights, privacy, face recognition, ethical relativism, whistleblowing, AI auditing and GDPR and much more.

32. Sex Robots with Kate Devlin

July 02, 2019 20:19 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MB

I met Kate in person in Bristol. We discussed chatbots in sex-tech, the complexity of human intimacy and technology, taboos in sex-tech, how sex tech can be a positive enabling industry, deepfakes and more.

31. AI standards and regulation with Jacob Turner

May 27, 2019 13:50 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MB

This month I had a great time chatting with Jacob Turner about recent AI news like openAI GTP-2, some robo-ethics and law, overarching prinicples of AI, professionalising standards and licensing for data scientists, creating institutions capable of democratic principle creation, and doing regulation well to actually encourage innovation and growth.

30. Emotional and loving AI with Julia Mossbridge

May 07, 2019 14:13 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MB

Lovely chat with Julia Mossbridge this month, talking about the role of parenting in AI, considering that some kids are "jerks" should we have a new turing test for AI responsibility, the importance of inner emotional states, behaviourism poisoning science, and the acknowagement that we may have to use our intuition to know when an AI is concious.

29. Human focused AI with Pete Trainor

April 02, 2019 17:01 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MB

Great speaking with Pete this month about human focused AI and his book Hippo: The Human Focused Digital Book, helping businesses get prepared and take advantage of AI, the importance and power of asking: why? And much more.

28. Future Ethics with Cennydd Bowles

February 05, 2019 15:50 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MB

This month I'm joined by Cennydd Bowles who I've been meaning to get on the podcast for over a year. We talk about his book Future Ethics, collective action in the tech industry, ethical design sprints and crits, design fictions to bring ethical thinking to the general public (think Black mirror), the law of double affect, and the tech industry and climate change.

27. Governments and Post-humans with Dan Faggella

January 23, 2019 21:13 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MB

This month I'm joined by Dan Faggella of Emerj to chat about AI events, our post-human trajectory, AI ethicists and their possible higher position, conversations with governments and advising companies on the best uses of AI.

26. What is AI? Vol.1

January 12, 2019 22:16 - 13 minutes - 18 MB

This episode is a bonus compilation of answers from 3 years of interviews asking the question: What is AI?

26. What is AI?

January 12, 2019 22:16 - 13 minutes - 18 MB

This episode is a bonus compilation of answers from 3 years of interviews asking the question: What is AI? We hear from past interviewees Cosima Gretton, Matthew Channon, Rob Wortham, Michael Ludden, Greg Edwards, Luciano Floridi, Christopher Noessel, Andy Budd, Damien Williams and Miranda Mowbray

25. Respecting data with Miranda Mowbray

November 13, 2018 13:16 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MB

This month I'm talking with Miranda Mowbray on: cyber security and machine learning, big data ethical code of conduct, sitting down as a team to discuss ethical issues in data projects, respecting the people who’s data you might be using, not collecting data you don't need and deleting things, and much more.

24. #AIRetreat

September 27, 2018 15:19 - 1 hour - 83 MB

This is a very special episode of interviews with various participants of this year's A.I. retreat at Juvet, Norway. 21 of us spent 4 days in remote Norway workshopping, chatting, hiking and arguing on subjects of AI, ethics, data science, consciousness and more.

23. How to design a moral algorithm with Derek Leben

August 20, 2018 12:01 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MB

This month I'm talking with Derek Leben about his new book Ethics for Robots: How to Design a Moral Algorithm. We also dive into a general framework for machine ethics, contractarianism, Rawls’ original position thought experiment (which is one of my favourite ethical thought experiments), maximin function approach to machine ethics, and whether robots should respect the consent of a person in life threatening circumstances...

22. AI in Science Fiction with Christopher Noessel

August 20, 2018 11:09 - 1 hour - 84.8 MB

This month is (sort of) part 2 of our two part look at AI in Culture. Chris and I take an extended look at how science fiction portray technology from the realistic to law of nature breaking mythos. Our chat meanders from film to TV and includes: Psycho pass, Person of interest, Rick and Morty episode: The Ricks Must Be Crazy, Buck Rogers, Rossum's Universal Robots, 2001: a space odyssey, Moon, iRobot (film and book), The Animatrix, Her, Futurama, Robot and Frank, Big hero 6, Colossus: The Fo...

21. Evolution and AI with Tim Taylor

July 27, 2018 15:27 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MB

This month is part one of a loose series on the history of AI in Culture. In Part 1 I talk to Tim Taylor about his upcoming book on evolving machines before the 1950s, at length about genetic algorithms and their environments, as well as Descartes notion of animals as machines, machine and human co-evolution and much more. I also started a new AI consultancy for companies looking to implement responsible AI - www.ethicalby.design

20. The meaning of life with Luciano Floridi

June 22, 2018 13:31 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MB

It is my honour to speak with Professor Luciano Floridi this month on subjects like information philosophy: “philosophy or our time, for our time”; understanding that mistakes happen in technology whether they’re design issues, bugs or oversights at big companies; what is the meaning of life in the digital world? And much much more.

19. Digital rights with Ruth Coustick-Deal

April 18, 2018 15:15 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MB

This month, with the lead up to the new GDPR European personal data legislation coming in, we talk to digital rights campaigner Ruth Coustick-Deal on everything personal data.

18. AI 101 with Greg Edwards

March 20, 2018 00:00 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MB

This month I interview Greg Edwards to get to grips with the basics of machine learning. We look at the history of AI, what machine learning consists, try to describe how neuronets work, and discover the new and interesting ideas in AI research.

17. Narratives in tech ethics with Charles Radclyffe

January 22, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 93.1 MB

This month I speak to Charles Radclyffe in Bristol's Engine Shed about dubious business models exploiting technology, differing narratives of tech ethics, using the court for automated car law preemptively and much more.

16. AI and the built environment with Josh Artus and Ben Byford

November 11, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB

This episode I share the interviewer responsibilities with Conscious Cities' podcaster Josh Artus. I get to ask Josh some questions and Josh has some for me (Ben Byford). We chatted about: AI data misrepresentation, bias and misuse; mindful technology implementation; using AI for things other than tricking people into looking at adverts; EEG misrepresentation; Bristol is Open and technology used in the public section in our cities; and much more.

15. Machine Ethics with Susan and Michael Anderson

October 10, 2017 23:00 - 57 minutes - 79 MB

Discussing almost coining Machine Ethics, Big Data and social sciences not having the answer to AI ethics, prima facie duties and robots, everything is going to have to have some ethic, and AI as the continuation of humanity into space.

14. AI in AR and VR with Michael Ludden

August 13, 2017 23:00 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MB

This month I'm talking to Michael Ludden about his work at IBM, what the hell Watson is, AI in culture and creating a positive cultural AI view, as well as using AI in AR and VR projects.

13. Robotics and autonomy with Alan Winfield

July 12, 2017 23:00 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MB

I talk to Alan about how humans should innovate ethically, different standards and the role of standards for designing and building robots, how autonomous systems should be transparent, and how studying robotics enables us to peer into our own behaviours and intelligence.

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