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.

117. Stories of AI with Simon Bell

This episode we're chatting with Simon Bell about the future of the internet, science fiction, GenAI as research assistant, enshitification, stories of AI fear, emergence, writing the monster AI into being, meditation and more...

Published on: 28th of September 2026

116. Thinking ethically with Lawrence Sheraton

This time we're chatting with Lawrence Sheraton about models of economics, will AGI be ethical? moral capabilities of AI, an elusive obvious, how do we know what is right and wrong, “I feel, therefore I know Ethics”, the conditional / contextual nature of ethics, ethical truth, sycophantic and schizophrenic AI, ethical unlearning and more...

Published on: 15th of September 2026

115. Data Collective with E.M. Lewis-Jong

This time we're chatting with E.M. about the promise of AI and making human connection easier, speech recognition and supporting linguistic diversity, making useful technologies that have a purpose, Mozilla data collective, under represented cultures in datasets, accidental monocultures with technology, negative uses of datasets, AI literacy, the instability of LLMs and more...

Published on: 25th of August 2026

114. Future of Education with Dr Jonathan P. Strecker

This time we're chatting with Jonathan Strecker on the kinds of intelligences, why AI shouldn’t replace learning wholesale, six levels of wisdom, AI hallucinations and lack of trust, AI use in academia, skills atrophy, the anxious generation, dumbing down the masses, rethinking education and more...

Published on: 24th of July 2026 Filmed