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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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  • 110. Organoid Computing with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys

    110. Organoid Computing with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys
    Mar 31 2026
    This month we're chatting with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the uses of organoids and energy saving computing, the unknowns in neural science, differences between biological neurons and digital neural networks, how neurons operate and encoding information, the impractical nature of recreating brain structures, the tendency to anthropomorphise, determinism and more...
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    44 mins
  • 109. Intelligence explosion with James Barrat

    109. Intelligence explosion with James Barrat
    Mar 3 2026
    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 over responsibility, the super rich; AI regulation and much more
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    1 hr
  • 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
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