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The Machine Ethics podcast: What is AI? Volume 3


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19 April 2024



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Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics 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.

What is AI? Volume 3

This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What is AI? This episode collates responses from podcast guests: Reid Blackman, Madhulika Srikumar, Sarah Brin, Roger Spitz, Ryan Carrier, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Mark Coeckelbergh, Harriet Pellereau, Josh Gellers, Marie Oldfield, Marc Steen, Guy Gadney and Mitchel Ondili.

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About The Machine Ethics podcast

This podcast was created and is run by Ben Byford and collaborators. The podcast, and other content was first created to extend Ben’s growing interest in both the AI domain and in the associated ethics. Over the last few years the podcast has grown into a place of discussion and dissemination of important ideas, not only in AI but in tech ethics generally. As the interviews unfold on they often veer into current affairs, the future of work, environmental issues, and more. Though the core is still AI and AI Ethics, we release content that is broader and therefore hopefully more useful to the general public and practitioners.

The hope for the podcast is for it to promote debate concerning technology and society, and to foster the production of technology (and in particular, decision making algorithms) that promote human ideals.

Join in the conversation by getting in touch via email here or following us on Twitter and Instagram.




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