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The Good Robot podcast: the role of designers in AI ethics with Tomasz Hollanek
Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology.
The role of designers in AI ethics with Tomasz Hollanek
In this episode, we talk to Tomasz Hollanek, researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Tomasz argues that design is central to AI ethics and explores the role designers should play in shaping ethical AI systems. The conversation examines the importance of AI literacy, the responsibilities of journalists in reporting on AI technologies, and how design choices embed social and political values into AI. Together, we reflect on how critical design can challenge existing power dynamics and open up more just and inclusive approaches to human–AI interaction.
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Tomasz Hollanek is a researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, working at the intersection of AI ethics and critical design. His research focuses on critical approaches to human–AI interaction design, drawing on critical AI studies and broader critical studies of technology. Tomasz examines how established social and economic power dynamics shape technologies and design practices, often leading to marginalization or discrimination, and how these dynamics become embedded in AI systems. Through his work, he aims to question dominant narratives around AI and explore more reflective, responsible, and inclusive design practices.
You can find the episode reading list and transcript here.
About The Good Robot Podcast
Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry McInerney are Research Associates at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, where they work on the Mercator-Stiflung funded project on Desirable Digitalisation. Previously, they were Christina Gaw Postdoctoral Researchers in Gender and Technology at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. During the COVID-19 pandemic they decided to co-found The Good Robot Podcast to explore the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology.
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