Machine Ethics Podcast episodes

111. Effects of AI with Dietmar Fischer

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're chatting with Dietmar Fischer about what we will mean by saying "AI" in the future? AI in science fiction, the fact th...

110. Organoid Computing with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're chatting with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the uses of organoids and energy saving computing, the unknowns in neural science, differenc...

109. Intelligence explosion with James Barrat

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode James and I are trying to stay positive while chatting: about superintelligence, AI basic drives, and the alignment problem; The intellig...

108. Moral Agents with Jen Semler

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This month we chatted in-person with Jen Semler. We chatted about what is AI?Philosophers and engineer collboartions, businesses working with ethicist...

107. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For our 2025 round up episode we're again chatting with Lisa Talia Moretti on the prevalence of AI slop, the end of social media, Grok and explic...

106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're chatting with Giulia Trojano about AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, deskilling of digital literacy, chatbot pare...

105. The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're chatting again with Tim El-Sheikh. We discuss podcasting, history of openAI, London startups, what are the AI use cases, is GenA...

104. Fostering morality with Dr Oliver Bridge

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This time we're chatting with Dr Oliver Bridge about machine ethics, superintelligence, virtue ethics, AI alignment, fostering morality in humans...

103. What excites you about AI? Vol.2

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What excites you about AI?

102. Autonomy AI with Adir Ben-Yehuda

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode Adir and I chat about Autonomy.ai–AI automation for frontend web development, where Human Machine Interface could be going? allowing an...

101. AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special live panel episode we recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025 in Bristol, May 2025. We chat about what is AI, pred...

100. DeepDive: AI and the Environment

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is our 100th episode! A super special look at AI and the Environment, we interviewed 4 experts for this DeepDive episode. We chatted about water ...

99. Co-design with Pinar Guvenc

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chat with Pinar Guvenc on “What's Wrong With” podcast, co-design, is AI ready for society and is society ready for AI...

98. Careful technology with Rachel Coldicutt

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Rachel about AI taxonomy, innovating for everyone not just the few, Rachel's chronic honesty, responsibilit...

97. Running faster with Enrico Panai

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Enrico Panai about the elements of the digital revolution, AI transforms data into information. HCI, the importa...

96. 2024 in review with Karin Rudolph and Ben Byford

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For our 2024 round up episode we're again chatting with Karin Rudolph about the AI Ethics Risk and Safety Conference, the EU AI Act, agent based ...

95. Responsible AI strategy with Olivia Gambelin

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For Olivia's 3rd time on the show we're chatting about Olivia's book on Responsible AI, scalable AI strategy, AI ethics and RAI, bad in...

94. Diversity in the AI life-cycle with Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we're chatting to Caitlin about gender and AI, technology isn’t neutral, using technology for good, diversity creation and expl...

93. Socio-technical systems with Lisa Talia Moretti

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we're chatting to Lisa about: Data and AI literacy, data sharing, data governance and data wallets, design values, selling in eth...

92. AI Truth with Alex Tsakiris

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this special filmed podcast swap episode I'm chatting with Alex Tsakiris about: should you learn to code to be in AI? stockfish chess AI, AI t...

91. What scares you about AI? Vol.2

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a bonus episode we're looking back over answers to our question: What scares you about AI?

90. An ethos for the future with Wendell Wallach

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This time we're chatting with Wendell Wallach on moral machines and Machine Ethics, AGI sceptics, the usefulness of the term of artificial intell...

89. AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference - Special Edition

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this special edition episode we hear vox-pops recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference in Bristol on the 15th of May 2024. We hear ab...

88. AI fictions with Alex Shvartsman

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Alex Shvartsman about what is our AI future, human crafted storytelling, the Generative AI use backlash, disclai...

87. Good tech with Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Eleanor and Kerry on what is good technology and is it even possible? Technology is political, watering down reg...

86. What is AI? Vol.3

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What is AI?

85. New forms of story telling with Guy Gadney

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Guy Gadney on new forms of story telling, placing people inside a story, natural language in games, LLM hype, da...

84. Review of 2023 with Karin Rudolph

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For our in-person episode on 2023 with Karin Rudolph we chat about the Future of Life Institute letter, existential risk of AI, TESCREAL, Geoffrey Hin...

83. Avoidable misery with Adam Braus

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Adam Braus about natural stupidity, natural intelligence, misericordianism and avoidable misery, the drowning ch...

82. Work, wellness and creativity with Harriet Pellereau

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Harriet Pellereau about AI’s lack of reasoning ability, uses of generative AI, creativity and AI, what even is...

81. The state of AI Ethics with Alice Thwaite

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This time I'm chatting to alice about teaching ethics, the idea of information environments, the importance of democracy, the Ethics hype train a...

80. Art and AI collaboration with Sarah Brin

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This time we're chatting with Sarah Brin about types of AI, the process of making artwork, how is an artwork culturally valuable, curatorial prac...

79. Taming Uncertainty with Roger Spitz

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This time we chat with Roger Spitz about how to think about the future, what does a futurist do? Thriving with disruption, a chief existential officer...

78. Design and AI with Nadia Piet

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode Nadia and I chat about how design can co-create AI, what the role of designers are in AI services? post-deployment design, narratives in ...

77. Doing Ethics with Marc Steen

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode Marc Steen and I chat about: AI as tools, the ethics of business models, writing Ethics for People Who Work in Tech, the process of ethic...

76. The professionalisation of data science with Dr Marie Oldfield

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're talking with Dr Marie Oldfield on definitions of AI, the education and communication gaps with AI, explainable models, ethics ...

75. The moral status of non-humans with Josh Gellers

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we talk with Josh Gellers about nature rights, rights for robots, non-human and human rights, justification for the attribution of rights...

74. AI, ethics and the future - DFA talk special edition

11 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special edition episode with Data Science Festival we're hosting a panel discussing: what is ethics? Designing for Responsible AI, ethics...

73. 2022 in review with Olivia Gamblin

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this end of year episode I'm joined by Olivia Gamblinn to discuss: ethics boards, generative images models and copywrite, concept art, model ...

72. Algorithms with Social Impact with Mitchel Ondili

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we talk with Mitchel Ondili on algorithm awareness, technology colonisation in the global south, OASI the registry for Algorithms with So...

71. The Politics of AI with Mark Coeckelbergh

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we talk with Mark Coeckelbergh about AI as a story about machines and where are we heading in creating human level intelligence, moral st...

70. Rights, trust and ethical choice with Ricardo Baeza-Yates

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we talk with Ricardo Baeza-Yates about: Responsible AI, the importance of AI governance, questioning people's intent to create AGI, ...

69. AI ethics strategy with Reid Blackman

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk with Reid Blackman about: what is learning? What it means to be worthy of trust, bullsh**t AI principles, company values, purp...

68. Ethics of digital worlds with Richard Bartle

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Bartle joins us again after his appearance on ep.65 to chat about the metaverse, different ways to design AI controlled NPC, the lack of progr...

67. AI Audits with Ryan Carrier

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Ryan Carrier about the positivity of the ForHumanity community, being compelled to do something about AI technol...

66. 2021 in review with Merve Hickok

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode Ben and Merve are chatting about 2021–EU AI legislation & harmonising AI product markets through policy, the UNESCO principles, sys...

65. DeepDive: AI and Games

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This first Deepdive episode we talk to Amandine Flachs, Tommy Thompson and Richard Bartle about AI in games, it's history, it's uses and whe...

64. Emotion detection with Andrew McStay

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Andrew McStay about emotional human machine interface, emotion face and voice detection, emotion detection and h...

63. AI readiness with Tim El-Sheikh

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're talking with Tim El-Sheikh of Nebuli.com. We chat about definitions of intelligence and augmented intelligence, ethical AI as ...

62. What excites you about AI? Vol.1

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What excites you about our AI mediated future? We chat abo...

61. Welcome to the Machine Ethics podcast

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Short introduction to the podcast: what it is about, when it started, and how to get involved.

60. Responsible AI Research with Madhulika Srikumar

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This time we're talking AI research with Madhulika Srikumar of Partnership on AI. We chat about managing the risks of AI research, how should the...

59. What scares you about AI? Vol.1

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What scares you about our AI mediated future? We chat gend...

58. AI regulation with Lofred Madzou

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We chat with Lofred Madzou about AI as a journey to understand ourselves through smart machines, scepticism about wholesale job lose, understanding th...

57. Value Sensitive Design with Steven Umbrello

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Steven Umbrello about transhumanism, his passion for philosophy and it's practical applications, Value sensitive design a...

56. What is AI? Vol.2

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is our second bonus compilation of answers from previous years of interviews asking the question: What is AI? We hear from past interview...

55. Speculative design with Phil Balagtas

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're chatting with Phil Balagtas about speculative & critical design, speculative design as a strategy tool, using design as a what if tool,...

54. The business of AI ethics with Josie Young

27 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with the amazing Josie Young on making businesses more efficient, how the AI ethics landscape changed over the last 5...

53. Comedy and AI with Anthony Jeannot

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A laid back episode of the podcast where Anthony and I chat about Netflix and recommender systems, finding comedy in AI, AI written movies and theatre...

52. Algorithmic discrimination with Damien Williams

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we chat with Damien Williams about types of human and algorithmic discrimination, human-technology expectations and norms, algorithms and...

51. AGI Safety and Alignment with Robert Miles

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Robert Miles about why we even want artificial general intelligence, general AI as narrow AI where its input is ...

50. Privacy and the end of the data economy with Carissa Veliz

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Carissa Véliz on the transforming of power, how personal data is toxic, end of the data economy, dangers of pri...

49. 2020 rambling chat with Ben Gilburt and Ben Byford

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode Ben and Ben are chatting about 2020 - Timnit Gebru leaving google, the promise of AI and COVID-19, Kaggle's COVID competition, GTP3,...

48. Jessie Smith co-designing AI

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with Jess Smith about the Radical AI podcast and defining the word radical, what is AI - non-living ability to learn…...

47. Robot Rights with David Gunkel

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we're chatting with David Gunkel on AI ideologies, why write the Robots Rights book, what are rights and categories of rights, compu...

46. Belief Systems and AI with Dylan Doyle-Burke

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're chatting with Dylan Doyle-Burke of the Radical AI podcast about starting the podcast, new religions and how systems of belief re...

45. Responsible AI with Maria Axente

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're chatting with Maria Luciana Axente about responsible AI, defining AI ethic terms and collaboration, where does the interest in A...

44. Moral Machines with Rebecca Raper

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we go back to our roots with an episode about Machine Ethics with Rebecca Raper. We chat about Moral machines and why make them, morals as ...

43. Reskilling with David Yakobovitch

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're zooming with David Yakobovitch, chatting about data science education, where is the industry going, the importance of data prote...

42. Probability & moral responsibility with Olivia Gambelin

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're speaking to Olivia Gambelin about: what should and shouldnt be automated, the importance of human connection, call for ethics, w...

41. Art & AI with Eva Jäger & Mercedes Bunz

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're speaking to both Eva Jäger & Mercedes Bunz on the topic of AI in Art. We discuss AI design interfaces, artificial stupidity...

40. AI alignment with Rohin Shah

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're talking to Rohin Shah about alignment problems in AI, constraining AI behaviour, current AI vs future AI, recommendation algorit...

39. Our AI intentions with Rishal Hurbans

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm talking to the lovely Rishal Hurbans about the AI scene in South Africa, ethics as an important part of the intro to the book Grok...

38. Automation and Utopia with John Danaher

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm talking to the prolific John Danaher about cyborg and digital utopias, why you should hate your job, the idea of robot tax, behavi...

37. Social robots with Bertram Malle

26 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're talking to the gracious Bertram Malle about social robots, whether people react differently to robots in different context, how ...

36. Metrics for wellbeing with John C. Havens

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're talking to John C. Havens about his work on IEEE's ethically aligned design, human rights & access to and data agency, ...

35. Moral reasoning with Marija Slavkovik

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month we're talking to the amazing Marija Slavkovik about a new language for talking about machine intelligence, expert systems and AI histo...

34. AI for Humans with Rob McCargow

30 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month I have a lovely chat with Rob McCargow Director of AI at PWC. We chat AI modelling unintended consequences, AI ethics audits, working with ...

33. ORGcon special edition episode

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm releasing two episodes, the first of which is a bonus episode recorded at ORGcon2019. I talk to the audience and speakers of ORGco...

32. Sex Robots with Kate Devlin

02 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I met Kate in person in Bristol. We discussed chatbots in sex-tech, the complexity of human intimacy and technology, taboos in sex-tech, how sex tech ...

31. AI standards and regulation with Jacob Turner

27 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month I had a great time chatting with Jacob Turner about recent AI news like openAI GTP-2, some robo-ethics and law, overarching prinicples of A...

30. Emotional and loving AI with Julia Mossbridge

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lovely chat with Julia Mossbridge this month, talking about the role of parenting in AI, considering that some kids are "jerks" should we ha...

29. Human focused AI with Pete Trainor

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Great speaking with Pete this month about human focused AI and his book Hippo: The Human Focused Digital Book, helping businesses get prepared and tak...

28. Future Ethics with Cennydd Bowles

05 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm joined by Cennydd Bowles who I've been meaning to get on the podcast for over a year. We talk about his book Future Ethics, c...

27. Governments and Post-humans with Dan Faggella

23 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm joined by Dan Faggella of Emerj to chat about AI events, our post-human trajectory, AI ethicists and their possible higher positio...

26. What is AI? Vol.1

12 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a bonus compilation of answers from 3 years of interviews asking the question: What is AI?

25. Respecting data with Miranda Mowbray

13 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm talking with Miranda Mowbray on: cyber security and machine learning, big data ethical code of conduct, sitting down as a team to ...

24. #AIRetreat

27 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is a very special episode of interviews with various participants of this year's A.I. retreat at Juvet, Norway. 21 of us spent 4 days in rem...

23. How to design a moral algorithm with Derek Leben

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm talking with Derek Leben about his new book Ethics for Robots: How to Design a Moral Algorithm. We also dive into a general framew...

22. AI in Science Fiction with Christopher Noessel

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month is (sort of) part 2 of our two part look at AI in Culture. Chris and I take an extended look at how science fiction portray technology from...

21. Evolution and AI with Tim Taylor

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month is part one of a loose series on the history of AI in Culture. In Part 1 I talk to Tim Taylor about his upcoming book on evolving machines ...

20. The meaning of life with Luciano Floridi

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It is my honour to speak with Professor Luciano Floridi this month on subjects like information philosophy: “philosophy or our time, for our time”...

19. Digital rights with Ruth Coustick-Deal

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month, with the lead up to the new GDPR European personal data legislation coming in, we talk to digital rights campaigner Ruth Coustick-Deal on ...

18. AI 101 with Greg Edwards

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month I interview Greg Edwards to get to grips with the basics of machine learning. We look at the history of AI, what machine learning consists,...

17. Narratives in tech ethics with Charles Radclyffe

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month I speak to Charles Radclyffe in Bristol's Engine Shed about dubious business models exploiting technology, differing narratives of tec...

16. AI and the built environment with Josh Artus and Ben Byford

11 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This episode I share the interviewer responsibilities with Conscious Cities' podcaster Josh Artus. I get to ask Josh some questions and Josh has ...

15. Machine Ethics with Susan and Michael Anderson

10 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing almost coining Machine Ethics, Big Data and social sciences not having the answer to AI ethics, prima facie duties and robots, everything i...

14. AI in AR and VR with Michael Ludden

13 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This month I'm talking to Michael Ludden about his work at IBM, what the hell Watson is, AI in culture and creating a positive cultural AI view, ...

13. Robotics and autonomy with Alan Winfield

12 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I talk to Alan about how humans should innovate ethically, different standards and the role of standards for designing and building robots, how autono...

12. CogX 2017 special edition episode

25 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This month I travel to CogX 2017 in London to do a special report from the conference floor. This episode is a collection of bits of talks and session...