Machine Ethics Podcast episodes

116. Thinking ethically with Lawrence Sheraton

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

115. Data Collective with E.M. Lewis-Jong

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 techn

114. Future of Education with Dr Jonathan P. Strecker

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 la

113. MLops and HCI with Demetrios Brinkmann

This month we speak with Demetrios for the second time about: what is ML and MLops, narrow Machine Learning being still relevant, vibe coding, working with agents, talkin

112. Safe and Moral AI with Rebecca Raper

In this episode we chat with Rebecca for the second time about: intelligence isn’t everything, are LLM’s even safe? AI governance and guardrails, moral assurance, under-s

111. Effects of AI with Dietmar Fischer

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, jo

110. Organoid Computing with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys

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 neu

109. Intelligence explosion with James Barrat

This episode James and I are trying to stay positive while chatting about: superintelligence, AI basic drives, and the alignment problem; The intelligence explosion, exis

108. Moral Agents with Jen Semler

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 a

107. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford

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, gi

106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano

This month we're chatting with Giulia Trojano about AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, deskilling of digital literacy, chatbot parental controls, difference

105. The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh

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 bubbl

104. Fostering morality with Dr Oliver Bridge

This time we're chatting with Dr Oliver Bridge about machine ethics, superintelligence, virtue ethics, AI alignment, fostering morality in humans and AI, evolutional mora

103. What excites you about AI? Vol.2

This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What excites you about AI?

102. Autonomy AI with Adir Ben-Yehuda

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 itsel

101. AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 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

100. DeepDive: AI and the Environment

This is our 100th episode! A super special look at AI and the Environment, we interviewed 4 experts for this DeepDive episode. We chatted about water stress, the energy u

99. Co-design with Pinar Guvenc

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

98. Careful technology with Rachel Coldicutt

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 r

97. Running faster with Enrico Panai

This episode we're chatting with Enrico Panai about the elements of the digital revolution, AI transforms data into information. HCI, the importance of knowing the tech a