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The Machine Ethics podcast: Safe and moral AI with Rebecca Raper


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06 August 2026



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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.

Safe and moral AI with Rebecca Raper

In this episode we chat with Rebecca for the second time about: why intelligence isn’t everything, whether LLM’s are even safe, AI governance and guardrails, moral assurance, under-specification problems, lack of interdisciplinary work in robotics, that AI shouldn’t be sold as a solution to everything, sidelining of AI ethics, what are the actual benefits of AI, whether AI progress will widen inequality, and more…

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Rebecca Raper is a robotics lecturer and researcher at Cranfield University. Her research specialises in Machine and AI Ethics. She authored the book Raising Robots to be Good: a practical foray into the art and science of Machine Ethics. She designed and leads the UK’s first Robotics apprenticeship.

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 Bluesky and Instagram.




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