Are You A Robot?

21/03/2022

NEW EPISODE with Amina Al Sherif! Amina joins us to discuss her journey at Google, working on Project Maven. Watch: https://buff.ly/3Go9qO3 or listen: https://buff.ly/34cY0j6

14/03/2022

NEW EPISODE with Monika Venčkauskaitė!

AI’s involvement in cybersecurity is both a threat and saviour. Whilst this technology can prevent cyber-attacks, it can also be a method in creating them too. In this interview with Monika, we discuss the upsides and downsides of this type of technology.

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07/03/2022

NEW EPISODE with Merve Hickok! Merve joins us again to dive into AI in the workplace! Watch: https://buff.ly/3rpxYBO or listen: https://buff.ly/3GqDjxb

28/02/2022

NEW EPISODE! In our interview with John Zerilli, discuss his book, “A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence”, as well as how we can manage bias in AI.

Watch: https://buff.ly/35NloEj or listen: https://buff.ly/3sgSTGw

21/02/2022

🤖 NEW EPISODE! 🤖

Both Anne and Lisa teamed up in a collaborative project, “Is Seeing Believing?”. The project explores how people feel about AI, depending on how the technology is represented in the media. In our interview with Lisa and Anne, we dive into the findings of this project and discuss how we can create images that better represent the power of AI.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3L0RvAu or listen: https://buff.ly/3L7c52j

14/02/2022

NEW EPISODE! In our interview with Nell Watson, we discuss a future with moral artificial intelligences and how this might assist human personal development.

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07/02/2022

NEW EPISODE! David Wood joins us to discuss his visions for the future, and how technology is going to impact our daily lives.

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01/02/2022

NEW EPISODE! Ian De Freitas joins us to discuss legal issues involving data, intellectual property, and technology. We dive into cases such as Lloyd vs Google, and Project Red Card.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3ofS5kf or listen on Spotify: https://buff.ly/3Jbvduj or Apple Podcast https://buff.ly/3uc5BsS

Ian De Freitas joins us to discuss legal issues involving data, intellectual property, and technology. We dive into cases such as Lloyd vs Google, and Projec...

17/01/2022

NEW EPISODE! Alka Roy joins us to talk about the Responsible Innovation Project, an initiative to start the dialogue with technology leaders from various industries about what it means to develop technologies in a responsible manner.

Watch on YouTube: https://buff.ly/3rnlJ7P Listen on Spotify: https://buff.ly/3IdqcAQ or Apple Podcast: https://buff.ly/3FAhOcT

10/01/2022

Renée Cummings joins us to start our TENTH season of Are You A Robot?! In this episode, we dive into actions we can take to ensure AI remains free from bias and other ethical issues.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3HPCpv9 or listen on Spotify: https://buff.ly/3CEhXKY Apple Podcast: https://buff.ly/3nbyD7o

05/01/2022

We recently celebrated our first birthday! To celebrate the occasion, we’ve created a highlights video of our favourite moments, along with some BTS clips. You can watch it all here: https://buff.ly/3FWp1oD

17/12/2021

NEW EPISODE! Charles and Demetrios catch-up IRL to talk about their favourite moments from the series so far.

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Charles and Demetrios meet up in real life to talk about their highlights from the podcast series so far!This episode is brought to you by EthicsGrade, an ES...

29/11/2021

NEW EPISODE with Doowan Lee!

In our episode with Doowan Lee, we look at how fake news and misinformation campaigns affect different societies and we can use AI to combat this. We’ve already seen how fake news campaigns have concerned the right wing’s power position in many democracies across the globe – how can we stop misinformation from taking over?

Watch: https://buff.ly/3D2Z70a or listen: https://buff.ly/3pbCRMM

22/11/2021

NEW EPISODE! In our interview with David, we discuss how engineers need to build AI in line with regulation. We also think about innovation versus law, and how we can create suitable regulatory structures to ensure that start-ups, innovators and everyone else can create new AI applications.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3r02XEM or listen: https://buff.ly/3oOSA3Z

16/11/2021

NEW EPISODE! In our interview with Peter Scott, we discuss how we can help people understand AI and the risks associated with this technology. We also think about the future of AI, what types of jobs we want machines to do and what we should leave for ourselves. Peter firmly believes in the importance of involving everyone in this conversation — but where do we begin?

Watch: https://buff.ly/3FnYsb0 or listen: https://buff.ly/3CkzI1F

08/11/2021

NEW EPISODE with Fiona Brown!

In our conversation with Fiona, we dive into the importance of data quality. Fiona is a strong advocate in applying rigour to the data process in machine learning. She firmly believes that the unglamorous side of machine learning needs to be addressed and standardised to avoid unethical issues related to these technologies.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3BXF82e or listen: https://buff.ly/309N83w

03/11/2021

NEW EPISODE! In our interview with Jeff Kluge, we discuss exactly what ethical means, and how companies can answer these concerns in regard to honesty and trust.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3kmHcez or listen: https://buff.ly/3CJm4WL

In our interview with Jeff Kluge, we will be discussing what exactly ethical means, and how companies can answer these concerns in regard to honesty and trus...

18/10/2021

NEW EPISODE! What comes to your mind as soon as you hear the word “robot”? Maybe it’s R2-D2, the Terminator or even our podcast! In this episode, Arne joins us to discuss the complexities around the imagery of robots, and why we are so obsessed with making robots look like humans.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3BUi8SC or listen: https://buff.ly/2Z5GHxJ

05/10/2021

Season Eight Finale! Ryan Carrier, Executive Director at ForHumanity, joins us to discuss his season highlights. Watch: https://buff.ly/3miMJCU or listen: https://buff.ly/3ldnZNb

30/09/2021

NEW EPISODE!

There are many other barriers, including language, education, and culture. In our interview with Steven Lee, we discuss ensuring a country’s populous have fair access to information and data. Finally, we’ll think about how we’re using data amid large-scale social, economic, and health emergencies, such as the COVID19 crisis, and if we’re using it in the right way.

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15/09/2021

NEW EPISODE with Navrina Singh!

In our interview with Navrina, we dive into what good AI governance should look like. We also think about the role that humans play when developing tech and how we can ensure there is always a human oversight in these processes.

Check out the link in our bio to find out where you can watch, listen and subscribe!

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02/09/2021

NEW EPISODE with Enrico Panai!

In our conversation with Enrico, we discuss his work with ForHumanity and highlight the importance of ethics and philosophy in every stage of AI development.

Watch: https://buff.ly/38zgrNr or listen: https://buff.ly/38BWPIs

30/08/2021

NEW EPISODE! Since the draft EU regulations have been released, there have been many discussions on what they mean, what’s missing, and how it will be implemented. In our interview with Adam, we’ll be diving into applying the regulations from a technical perspective.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3gKHqKF or listen: https://buff.ly/3zwR4Ym

03/08/2021

NEW EPISODE with Kelly Gauthier! In our interview with Kelly, we discuss what it’s like to be a recruiter in the tech space and how a company can hire a data scientist. We also ask Kelly for her insights from her podcast The Data Dig, a podcast aimed to demystify data science.

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29/07/2021

NEW EPISODE! Adam Yasmin joins us to discuss how humans can feel less like a robot in terms of our relationship with technology, social media, and work-life.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3i7e4Hm or listen: https://buff.ly/3l7Utsh

26/07/2021

NEW EPISODE! Stephan Zheng joins us to discuss how we can use AI to create better economic policies.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3y9jEOV or listen: https://buff.ly/3y7TwEe

15/07/2021

NEW EPISODE! In this episode with Noah Gift, we will be looking at unethical issues across the Big Tech industry. Companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are employing some of the smartest people in the industry — why aren’t their products thought out? Why aren’t employees able to predict the unsurprising ethical issues from faulty algorithms?

Watch: https://buff.ly/3yTKxq8 or listen: https://buff.ly/3xNR4CM

05/07/2021

Season Six Finale! Charles Radclyffe, partner at EthicsGrade joins us to discuss his highlights of Season Six.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3hF2P7q or listen: https://buff.ly/3AuJbDS

14/06/2021

NEW EPISODE! Ben Byford joins us to discuss his insights from “Machine Ethics”, and how much the AI ethics space has changed over the past 5 years.

Watch: https://buff.ly/3548Bd4 or listen: https://buff.ly/2TVxk0I

10/06/2021

NEW EPISODE with Phil Booth!

Are you aware of what’s happening with your health data? Currently, the NHS is preparing to share medical histories of 55m patients’ information to share with third parties. In this episode, Phil Booth joins us to discuss the implications of this and what it means for society.

Watch: https://buff.ly/2SpYfRR or listen: https://buff.ly/358FLZ8

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