Machine Ethics Podcast
Conversations on AI Ethics:
Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and society.
This podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology's impact on society. Join in the conversation with us by getting in touch via email here or following us on BlueSky and Instagram.
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The machine ethics podcast is made by Ben Byford & ethicalby.design. And.. it has now being running for over 10 years! Yep I know.
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...
Date: 4th of February 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...
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...
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...
