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Machine Ethics Podcast episodes

Machine Ethics Podcast episodes

By: Ben Byford and friends
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 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.Copyright Ben Byford Philosophy Science Social Sciences
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  • 108. Moral Agents with Jen Semler

    108. Moral Agents with Jen Semler
    Feb 4 2026
    This 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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    44 mins
  • 107. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford

    107. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford
    Jan 13 2026
    For 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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    42 mins
  • 106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano

    106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano
    Dec 3 2025
    This 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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    1 hr and 1 min
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