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Machine Ethics Podcast

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Conversations on AI Ethics: Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and it's impact on society. Created by @benbyford.com www.machine-ethics.net

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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 15/09/2026
Ep.116 now live. Lawrence Sheraton and I chat economics, ethical AGI, moral capabilities, elusive obvious, “I feel, therefore I know Ethics”, ethical truth, sycophantic and schizophrenic AI, ethical unlearning and more.. www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/thin...
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Thinking ethically with Lawrence Sheraton - Machine Ethics Podcast
This time we're chatting with Lawrence Sheraton about models of economics, will AGI be ethical? moral capabilities of AI, an elusive obvious, how do we know what is right and wrong, “I feel, therefore...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 02/09/2026
In episodes 109 - 112 we chatted with Rebecca Raper, Dr. Ewelina Kurtys, Dietmar Fischer and James Barrat about: AI morals, safety, guardrails and governance, a post-work future, organoid computing, existential risks of AI, and much more...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 27/08/2026
Ep.115 E.M. Lewis-Jong & I chat about making human connection easier, speech recognition and linguistic diversity, making useful technologies that have a purpose, @mozilla.org Data Collective, negative uses of datasets, AI literacy, LLM instability & more... www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/data...
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Data Collective with E.M. Lewis-Jong - Machine Ethics Podcast
This time we're chatting with E.M. about the promise of AI and making human connection easier, speech recognition and supporting linguistic diversity, making useful technologies that have a purpose, M...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 31/07/2026
114. Future of Education with Dr Jonathan P. Strecker - kinds of intelligences, six levels of wisdom, AI hallucinations, AI use in academia, skills atrophy, the anxious generation, rethinking education and more… www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/futu...
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Future of Education with Dr Jonathan P. Strecker - Machine Ethics Podcast
This time we're chatting with Jonathan Strecker on the kinds of intelligences, why AI shouldn’t replace learning wholesale, six levels of wisdom, AI hallucinations and lack of trust, AI use in academi...
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 24/05/2026
ep 105 - 108 I chatted with Tim El-Sheikh, Lisa Talia Moretti, Giulia Trojano & Jen Semler about: AI use cases, is GenAI even safe? AI bubble, data oligachies, AI slop, anthropomorphising, companion chatbots, parental controls, advertising in GenAI, emotional AI, techno-determinism, moral agents…
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 15/04/2026
Ep.111-This month Dietmar Fischer & I chat on "AI" in the future? AI in sci-fi, AI goals, jobs and the political effects of unemployment, post-work society & the good life, Chinese AI legislation, AI anthropomorphising, AI literacy, AI bubble, extinction, &more www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/effe...
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Effects of AI with Dietmar Fischer - Machine Ethics Podcast
This 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 o...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 02/04/2026
Ep.110 with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys: uses of organoids & energy saving computing, unknowns in neural science, neurons vs digital neuralnetworks, encoding information, impractical nature of recreating brain structures, determinism and more… www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/orga...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 05/03/2026
Ep. 109 now live with James Barrat. We chat 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 www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/inte...
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Intelligence explosion with James Barrat - Machine Ethics Podcast
This 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 ov...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 06/02/2026
Ep.108 we chatted inperson with Jen Semler on what is AI? Philosophers & engineer collaboration, businesses working with ethicists, machine ethics, what makes a moral agent, moral decisions, machine consciousness, companies as not democratic organisations… www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/mora...
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Moral Agents with Jen Semler - Machine Ethics Podcast
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 ag...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 05/12/2025
106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano. We discuss AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, chatbot parental controls, surveillance in the guise of safety, advertising creeping into GenAI, ReplikaAI, lack of research in emotional AI, determinism, & more www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/comp...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 25/11/2025
Ep. 105 The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/the-...
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The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh - Machine Ethics Podcast
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 ...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 07/11/2025
Great conversation on the podcast today about the AI bubble, it’s gonna burst!!! will be out next week!
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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
So. I bought this game for the lolz but it’s somehow amazing, subversive, unapologetically anti-AI-taking-our-jobs and it was made by the host of @machine-ethics.net, @benbyford.com?! I’m obsessed.
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 28/09/2025
Ep.103 What excites you about AI? www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/what...
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What excites you about AI? Vol.2 - Machine Ethics Podcast
This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What excites you about AI?
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 30/07/2025
Episode 102 now live! Adir Ben-Yehuda & I chat about–AI automation for web development, Human Machine Interfaces, allowing an LLM to optimism itself, job displacement, vibe coding, Grok's MechaHitler, the ethics and guard rails of LLMs and more… www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/auto...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 24/06/2025
Ep.101 out! special live panel at AI Ethics, Risks & Safety Conference 2025. We chat: what is AI, predictions for 5 years, incoming wave of fraud, AI education, copyright, uncertainty of regulation, sovereign AI capabilities, impact on creative industries www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/ai-e...
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AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025 - Machine Ethics Podcast
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 i...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 20/05/2025
Ep.100!!! Deepdive: AI and the Environment. We chatted with Hannah, Boris, Will & Mél on water stress, AI energy usage, AI for fossil fuel discovery, AI as geo-political, GenAI vs ML, transparency on usage, regulation, who controls AI, & more... www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/deep...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 09/04/2025
Ep.99 Co-design with Pinar Guvenc now live! We chat on “What's Wrong With” podcast, co-design, is society ready for AI? What is design? co-creation with AI as a stakeholder, bias in design, small language models, human experience, attention, and more... www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/co-d...
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Co-design with Pinar Guvenc - Machine Ethics Podcast
This episode we're chat with Pinar Guvenc on “What's Wrong With” podcast, co-design, is AI ready for society and is society ready for AI? What is design? co-creation with AI as a stakeholder, bias in ...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 13/03/2025
Ep.98 out now! We chat with @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on innovating for everyone not just the few, chronic honesty, responsibilities of researchers, socially responsible technology, ethics work as free labour, the right to repair, tinker, improve... www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/care...
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Careful technology with Rachel Coldicutt - Machine Ethics Podcast
This episode we're chatting with Rachel about AI taxonomy, innovating for everyone not just the few, Rachel's chronic honesty, responsibilities of researchers, socially responsible technology, ethics ...
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Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net · 05/02/2025
Ep.97 now live. Enrico Panai & I chat about the digital revolution, how AI transforms data, importance of knowing tech as a tech philosopher, what ethicists do, pasta, whether ethics is really a burden or can enable you to run faster, dont steal peoples time... www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/runn...
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