Episodes

  • 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
  • 105. The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh

    105. The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh
    Nov 19 2025
    This 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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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 104. Fostering morality with Dr Oliver Bridge

    104. Fostering morality with Dr Oliver Bridge
    Oct 29 2025
    This 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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    44 mins
  • 103. What excites you about AI? Vol.2

    103. What excites you about AI? Vol.2
    Sep 27 2025
    This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What excites you about AI?
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    11 mins
  • 102. Autonomy AI with Adir Ben-Yehuda

    102. Autonomy AI with Adir Ben-Yehuda
    Jul 28 2025
    This 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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    51 mins
  • 101. AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025

    101. AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025
    Jun 23 2025
    In this special live panel episode we recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025 in Bristol, May 2025. We chat about what is AI, predictions for the next 5 years - good and bad, the incoming wave of fraud, AI education and in education, copyright in the age of LLMs, the uncertainty of AI regulation, responsible AI in organisation, sovereign AI capabilities, the question: are we not being experimented on? Elderly AI, AI's impact on the creative industries and more...
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    50 mins