I am very excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series with my longtime friend and collaborator Sven Nyholm. The podcast is intended to introduce key themes, concepts, arguments and ideas arising from the ethics of technology. It roughly follows the structure from the book This is Technology Ethics by Sven , but in a loose and conversational style. In the nine episodes, we will cover the nature of technology and ethics, the methods of technology ethics, the problems of control, responsibility, agency and behaviour change that are central to many contemporary debates about the ethics of technology. We will also cover perennially popular topics such as whether a machine could have moral status, whether a robot could (or should) be a friend, lover or work colleague, and the desirability of merging with machines. The podcast is intended to be accessible to a wide audience and could provide an ideal companion to an introductory or advanced course in the ethics of technology (with particular focus on AI, robotics and other digital technologies).
I will be releasing the podcast on the Philosophical Disquisitions podcast feed, but I have also created an independent podcast feed and website, if you are just interested in it. The first episode can be downloaded here or you can listen below. You can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and a range of other podcasting services.
If you go the website or subscribe via the standalone feed, you can download the first two episodes now. There is also a promotional tie with the book publisher. If you use the code 'TEC20' on the publisher's website (here) you can get 20% off the regular price.
TITE 10 - Bonus Episode: Audience Q and A
TITE 9 - Human-Technology Futures
TITE 8 - Machines as Colleagues, Friends and Lovers
TITE 7 - Can Machines be Moral Patients?
TITE 6 - Moral Agency in Machines
TITE 5 - Technology and Responsibility Gaps
TITE 4 - Behaviour Change and Control
TITE 3 - Value Alignment and the Control Problem
TITE 2: The Methods of Technology Ethics
110 - Can we pause AI Development? Evidence from the history of technological restraint
109 - How Can We Align Language Models like GPT with Human Values?
108 - Miles Brundage (Head of Policy Research at Open AI) on the speed of AI development and the risks and opportunities of GPT
107 - Will Large Language Models disrupt healthcare?
106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient
105 - GPT: Higher Education's Jurassic Park Moment?
104 - What will be the economic impact of GPT?
103 - GPT: How worried should we be?
102 - Fictional Dualism and Social Robots
101 - Pistols, Pills, Pork and Ploughs: How Technology Changes Morality
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