Ethical Machines
av Reid Blackman
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How Far Does a Data Scientist’s Responsibility Go?
How Far Does a Data Scientist’s Responsibility Go?
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I have to roll my eyes at the constant click bait headlines on technology and ethics.
If we want to get anything done, we need to go deeper.
That’s where I come in. I’m Reid Blackman, a former philosophy professor turned AI ethics advisor to government and business.
If you’re looking for a podcast that has no tolerance for the superficial, try out Ethical Machines.
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- How Far Does a Data Scientist’s Responsibility Go? · 51 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 6How far does a data scientist’s responsibility reach? Does it stop at building an accurate model, or does it extend to what the model does once it’s in use? Ben Green, professor…
- Rewriting History with AI · 52 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 12What happens when students turn to LLMs to learn about history? My guest, Nuno Moniz, Associate Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame, argues this can ultimately…
- AI Won’t Speak for My Father · 39 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 5Today I’m talking with Elisha Wiesel, chair of the Elie Wiesel Foundation and former CIO of Goldman Sachs. We talk about why the foundation won’t use AI to recreate his father…
- Seriously? AI Welfare? · 1 h 4 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 4I roll my eyes at talk of "AI welfare," the idea that we should take seriously the notion that AI has interests or a well-being that we should take seriously. My guests, Geoff…
- The Good and Bad of AI Companions · 47 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 3We often think of AI companions as bad, or at least suspect. Giada Pistilli, formerly Principal Ethicist at Hugging Face and now at Mistral, wants to test that assumption, and…
- The Honesty Crisis · 54 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 2My guest today is Christian B. Miller, professor of philosophy and author of The Honesty Crisis. Christian's central claim is that technology (AI, social media, etc.) has created…
- How Should We Work with AI Agents? · 45 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 1Season four kicks off with Paula Goldman, author of the new book, “Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human AI Collaboration at Work,” Paula is also Salesforce’s Chief Ethical…
- Season Finale: AI Paradoxes · 44 min · Säsong 3 Avsnitt 38Here are three paradoxes, according to Virginia Dignum, my guest today: 1. The more capable AI becomes, the more it reveals the richness and complexity of human intelligence. 2…
- LLMs are the Wrong Kind of AI · 52 min · Säsong 3 Avsnitt 37Jonathan Schaeffer thinks we're building AI the wrong way. While large language models have produced remarkable results, he argues that hallucinations, bias, and unreliability…
- AI is Social Infrastructure · 44 min · Säsong 3My guest, Mona Sloane, author of Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life, argues that AI has become part of our social infrastructure. Its predictive systems increasingly…
- How AI Threatens Scientific Inquiry · 55 min · Säsong 3Science depends on more than just results. It depends on researchers asking questions, testing hypotheses, challenging assumptions, and scrutinizing evidence. My guest, Emily…
- Who is Responsible for AI Agents? · 55 min · Säsong 3 Avsnitt 36My guest, Fabio Tollon, a postdoctoral researcher on the BRAID programme at the University of Edinburgh, argues that answering that question is more difficult than it first…
- Creating AIs with a Normative Capacity · 59 min · Säsong 3Aligning an AI traditionally looks like a matter of giving it rules to obey. But my guest, Gillian Hadfield, Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University…
- Existentialist Risk · 47 minTechnologist’s are racing to create AGI, artificial general intelligence. They also say we must align the AGI’s moral values with our own. But Professors Ariela Tubert and Justin…
- AI Governance is Lagging · 46 min · Säsong 3The Thomson Reuters Foundation recently conducted a global survey and found that most companies are lagging in their attempts to govern AI. For me the most surprising stat is…
- Predictions are Commands · 45 minMy guest, Carissa Véliz, is author of the new book “Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI.” Her thesis is that when leaders in AI…
- The Ethical Nightmare Challenge: Chapters 6-7 and Conclusion · 1 h 0 min · Säsong 29 Avsnitt 3Chapter Six: Dream Teams for Ethical Nightmares • Three Types of ENC Teams • ENC Teams as Emergency Response • Tools for Teams • ENC Teams in Bloom Chapter Seven: ENC: An…
- The Ethical Nightmare Challenge: Chapters 4-5 · 49 min · Säsong 28 Avsnitt 3Chapter 4: The Standard Approach to Responsible AI Is Crumbling • The Standard Approach • The Madness in the Method • Turn That Smile Upside Down • Cats and Tigers, Oh My!…
- The Ethical Nightmare Challenge: Chapters 2-3 · 1 h 14 min · Säsong 27 Avsnitt 3Chapter Two: Things Get Complicated with Generative AI • So Now We’re Going to Lose My Grandmother, Again • The Creators’ Version of a Rough Draft • The Creators Align (Kind of)…
- The Ethical Nightmare Challenge · 45 min · Säsong 3 Avsnitt 26My new book released just two days. It’s about how insanely complex the AI risk landscape has become, why the standard approach to Responsible AI is broken, and develops a novel…
