117. Stories of AI with Simon Bell
Podcast authors: Ben Byford and Simon Bell
Audio duration: 47:30
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Tags: Enshitification, Sci-fi, Internet, Stories, Emergence, Meditation
Playlists: Science Fiction
S G Bell is the author of more than 100 published academic articles and papers, and several academic books, including recent work on mindfulness and the mechanics of fear. He is Emeritus Professor in Innovation and Methodology at the Open University.
He's fiction is concerned with what happens when technology outstrips the human beings it was built to serve.
S G Bell remains deeply concerned with the sustainability of the human project — and genuinely reassured by the apparently limitless scope of human resourcefulness.
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.