TITE 10 - Bonus Episode: Audience Q and A
In this episode, John and Sven answer questions from podcast listeners. Topics covered include: the relationships between animal ethics and...
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20 of 60 episodesTITE 9 - Human-Technology Futures
What does the future hold for humanity's relationship with technology? Will we become ever more integrated with and dependent on technology?...
TITE 8 - Machines as Colleagues, Friends and Lovers
In this episode, Sven and John talk about relationships with machines. Can you collaborate with a machine? Can robots be friends, colleagues...
TITE 7 - Can Machines be Moral Patients?
In this episode Sven and John discuss the moral status of machines, particularly humanoid robots. Could machines ever be more than mere thin...
TITE 6 - Moral Agency in Machines
In this episode, Sven and John discuss the controversy arising from the idea moral agency in machines. What is an agent? What is a moral age...
TITE 5 - Technology and Responsibility Gaps
In this episode Sven and John discuss the thorny topic of responsibility gaps and technology. Over the past two decades, a small cottage ind...
TITE 4 - Behaviour Change and Control
In this episode, John and Sven talk about the role that technology can play in changing our behaviour. In doing so, they note the long and t...
TITE 3 - Value Alignment and the Control Problem
In this episode, John and Sven discuss risk and technology ethics. They focus, in particular, on the perennially popular and widely discusse...
TITE 2: The Methods of Technology Ethics
In this episode, John and Sven discuss the methods of technology ethics. What exactly is it that technology ethicists do? How can they answe...
New Podcast Series - 'This is Technology Ethics'
I am very excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series with my longtime friend and collaborator Sven Nyholm. The podcast is intend...
110 - Can we pause AI Development? Evidence from the history of technological restraint
In this episode, I chat to Matthijs Maas about pausing AI development. Matthijs is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Legal Prioritie...
109 - How Can We Align Language Models like GPT with Human Values?
In this episode of the podcast I chat to Atoosa Kasirzadeh. Atoosa is an Assistant Professor/Chancellor's fellow at the University of Edinbu...
108 - Miles Brundage (Head of Policy Research at Open AI) on the speed of AI development and the risks and opportunities of GPT
[UPDATED WITH CORRECT EPISODE LINK] In this episode I chat to Miles Brundage. Miles leads the policy research team at Open AI. Unsurprisingl...
107 - Will Large Language Models disrupt healthcare?
In this episode of the podcast I chat to Jess Morley. Jess is currently a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research foc...
106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient
In this episode, I chat to Robert Long about AI sentience. Robert is a philosopher that works on issues related to the philosopy of mind, co...
105 - GPT: Higher Education's Jurassic Park Moment?
In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at t...
104 - What will be the economic impact of GPT?
In this episode of the podcast, I chat to Anton Korinek about the economic impacts of GPT. Anton is a Professor of Economics at the Universi...
103 - GPT: How worried should we be?
In this episode of the podcast, I chat to Olle Häggström. Olle is a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technolog...
102 - Fictional Dualism and Social Robots
How should we conceive of social robots? Some sceptics think they are little more than tools and should be treated as such. Some are more bu...
101 - Pistols, Pills, Pork and Ploughs: How Technology Changes Morality
It's clear that human social morality has gone through significant changes in the past. But why? What caused these changes? In this episode,...