Let's Chat Ethics

What will tech look like in 2025? This week we are joined by the amazing Charlie Oliver CEO and founder of the incredible platform Tech2025. We get deep into voice recognition, the effect of technology on children and Charlie shares her journey of founding Tech2025 and why it was so important to her. Twitter: @itscomplicated LinkedIn: Charlie Oliver Bio: Charlie’s years of experience in the trench...

Will venture capitalists see the value in ethical investing? Can there be growth with ethics? This week we are joined by Mike Butcher the Editor-at-large of TechCrunch to share his expertise and knowledge about VC investment and if VCs can see the value in ethics.  Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, and co-founder of Pathfounder editorial events and reports series on ‘impact innova...

This week we are joined again by Alba Curry and Ryan Harte to discuss how Chinese history and philosophy have shaped China's AI policies. This episode is part 2 of the conversation.    Ryan Harte holds a Ph. D. in the comparative thought and literature of China and Greece, specialising in ethics. He has lived and taught in East Asia and the U.S. In autumn 2021 he will take up a post as Assistant P...

This week we are joined by Alba Curry and Ryan Harte to discuss how Chinese history and philosophy have shaped China's AI policies. This episode is part 1 and next week you can listen to the rest of the conversation!    Ryan Harte holds a Ph. D. in the comparative thought and literature of China and Greece, specialising in ethics. He has lived and taught in East Asia and the U.S. In autumn 2021 he...

Is AI a new tool for art or does it take away the human touch?  This week we look at digital art and art created by AI after the recent news that Christie's Auction House sold the artist Beeple's digital art for $69,346,250.    Article mentions:  Art Net   Christie's Auction House

Is Facebook's FAIR department truly fair? This week we chat about Facebook's role in spreading misinformation and take a look at the MIT Technology Review article, 'How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation' by Karen Hao.    Article: Link   

Can ethical AI ever work in industry? Will it take regulation or will corporations take it upon themselves?  This week we look more Google's approach to ethical AI and predictions for the future of ethical AI in industry.  Article mention: link

What does human centric tech actually mean? How can we make products more accessible?    This week we are joined by the amazing Anne T Griffin to share her experience and expertise in tech.   Anne is a leader in product management, a startup advisor, and subject matter expert in AI, blockchain, tech ethics and product inclusivity. She is the founder and Chief Product Officer at Griffin Product & G...

This week we chat about the recent New Yorker article 'Who Should Stop Unethical AI, Google firing their co-leads of Ethical AI and we bring back the conversation about publishing unethical research.    Article: Who Should Stop Unethical AI? 

Is AI sustainable?   What is the carbon footprint and long term sustainability of machine learning? This week we look at an academic paper ' Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP ' by Emma Strubell, Ananya Ganesh and Andrew McCallum from the University of Massachusetts. 

Will robots take over the world and come and get us? Can machines have feeling?  This week we discuss how we got into the space of Ethical AI and defining what ethical AI actually is in practical terms. 

Why is combating online hate speech so hard? How do we get to a safe space on social media? We are back with Zeerak Waseem for the second part of our conversation about online hate speech. Zeerak is currently a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. He researches and specialises in online hate speech.  Disclaimer: we might have gone off topic and got political again.. 

What should Big Tech do about hate speech online? What CAN they do? This week we are joined by Zeerak Waseem, who researches and specialises in online hate speech. Zeerak is currently a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Full disclosure: we go completely off-track.  

Is trust the make-or-break ingredient in the future of AI? This week we continue our exploration of the EU's Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and discuss the importance of trust in AI systems. In the podcast we mention the work of the Z - Inspection led by Dr. Roberto V. Zicari from the Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Below we have linked the published AI Ethics Evaluati...

This week we discuss a paper where researchers detect moral values from people's writing. Is a Myers-Briggs test for morality the next step in employee vetting?  Paper linked in article here 

Happy New Year! This week we have another amazing guest joining us. Mark Durkee from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. In this episode Mark will be discussing the recent report that CDEI published: Review into Bias in Algorithmic decision-making.

Feliz Navidad everyone - our Christmas episode is here. Expect laughter, mince pies and mulled wine as we both reflect on the craziness of 2020 as well as the best and worst moments in ethical AI. 

BONUS EP! We have  Ivana Bartoletti joining us for a compelling conversation about the use of our data and racist / sexist AI.  Ivana Bartoletti is Technical Director, Privacy at Deloitte, and an internationally recognised thought leader in the field of responsible technology. Author of " An Artificial Revolution, on Power, Politics and AI ", she starts a Visiting Policy Fellowship at Oxford Unive...

This week we chat about two hot topics in the news from the past two weeks. Can AI be the a matchmaking tool and enhance our love lives for the better? The news of Japan funding AI matchmaking to solve the declining birth rate.  Should one company be allowed ultimate power and monopoly? The Federal Trade Commission (USA) lawsuit against Facebook. 

Following on from our transparency episode, where we spoke about the issues surrounding big tech funding ethical AI research - this week we discuss the controversial and wrongful firing of Timnit Gebru from Google.   Paper mentioned: MIT Technology Review 

This week we discuss bias in tech that comes from the design of the tech itself rather than the bias that is automatically learned form data.  Books mentioned: Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez

This week we are back discussing the EU Guidelines for Trustworthy AI - looking at bias data sets. This is a two part episode where next week we will talk about bias by design. 

Should unethical research be published? As a peer reviewer should your own ethical values be considered? This week we discuss an ethics panel that took place at EMNLP 2020 - The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 

Can big tech really be transparent? This week we discuss The Grey Hoodie Project a paper by Mohamed Abdalla & Moustafa Abdalla. Continuing with the EU Guidelines for Trustworthy AI -  we focus on the principle of Transparency.   

This week we discuss Privacy and Data Governance - continuing our discussion of the EU Guidelines for Trustworthy AI .