112. Safe and Moral AI with Rebecca Raper

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

Published on: 8th of June 2026
Podcast authors: Ben Byford and Rebecca Raper
Audio duration: 44:31
Website plays & downloads: 6 Click to download
Tags: Morals, Robotics, Governance, Inequality, AI Ethics, Values
Playlists: Machine Ethics, Philosophy

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 apprecticeship.

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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.

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