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The Machine Ethics podcast: Autonomy AI with Adir Ben-Yehuda


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08 September 2025



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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.

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 itself, job displacement, vibe coding, Grok’s MechaHitler, the ethics and guard rails of LLMs, and that you should go be a plumber!

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Adir Ben-Yehuda is the CEO of AutonomyAI, where he’s leading the development of an autonomous GenAI platform that helps companies ship software faster with production-grade code. He previously led go-to-market teams at high-growth startups including OpenWeb as VP of Strategy and Walnut as CRO, helping scale products adopted by global brands. With over a decade of experience, Adir specializes in turning complex tech into scalable, market-friendly solutions.

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.

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