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

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 explicit content generation, giving legislation more teeth, anthropomorphising reasoning models, AI literacy and safeguarding, fighting data centre construction, importantance of journalism, and AI chatbot bingo...
Date: 13th of January 2026
Podcast authors: Ben Byford and Lisa Talia Moretti
Audio duration: 42:05 | Website plays & downloads: 3 Click to download
Tags: Generative AI, AI literacy, Grok, Reasoning, Safeguarding, AI slop | Playlists: Review of the year

Lisa Talia Moretti is a Digital Sociologist. She holds a MSc Digital Sociology and 17 years of experience working at the intersection of design research, social theory and technology. Lisa is the Chair of the AI Council at BIMA and a board member of the Conversation Design Institute Foundation. In 2020, Lisa was named one of Britain’s 100 people who are shaping the digital industry in the category Champion for Change. Her talk 'Technology is not a product, it's a system' is available for viewing on TED.com


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Episode host: Ben Byford

Ben Byford is a AI ethics consultant, code, design and data science teacher, games designer with years of design and coding experience building websites, apps, and games.

In 2015 he began talking on AI ethics and started the Machine Ethics podcast. Since, Ben has talked with academics, developers, doctors, novelists and designers on AI, automation and society. He is available for articles, talks and workshops.

Through Ethical by Design Ben and the team help organisations make better AI decisions leveraging their experience in design, technology, business, data, sociology and philosophy.