Machine Ethics Podcast

Conversations on AI Ethics:
Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and society.

This 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. Join in the conversation with us by getting in touch via email here or following us on BlueSky and Instagram.

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The machine ethics podcast is made by Ben Byford & ethicalby.design. And.. it has now being running for over 10 years! Yep I know.

105. The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh

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 GenAI even safe? the AI bubble, snake oil salesmen, why do we need all these data centres? replacing human workers, data oligachies, the erosion of trust in AI, AI psychosis and more...

Date: 19th of November 2025 Filmed

104. Fostering morality with Dr Oliver Bridge

This time we're chatting with Dr Oliver Bridge about machine ethics, superintelligence, virtue ethics, AI alignment, fostering morality in humans and AI, evolutional moral systems, socialising AI, and systems thinking...

Date: 29th of October 2025

103. What excites you about AI? Vol.2

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

Date: 27th of September 2025

102. 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 go be a plumber!?

Date: 28th of July 2025 Has transcription