Episodes

  • 113. MLops and HCI with Demetrios Brinkmann

    113. MLops and HCI with Demetrios Brinkmann
    Jul 7 2026
    This month we speak with Demetrios for the second time about: what is ML and MLops, narrow Machine Learning being still relevant, vibe coding, working with agents, talking to your computer, unknown productivity gains of LLMs, the chat interface as a bad interface for all knowledge, AIs that know when they’re wrong, the lack of ground truth, and more...
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    48 mins
  • 112. Safe and Moral AI with Rebecca Raper

    112. Safe and Moral AI with Rebecca Raper
    Jun 8 2026
    In this episode we chat with Rebecca for the second time about: intelligence isn’t everything, are LLM’s even safe? AI governance and guardrails, moral assurance, under-specification problems, lack of interdisciplinary work in robotics, AI shouldn’t be sold as a solution to everything, sidelining of AI Ethics, what are the actual benefits of AI? will AI progress widen inequality? and more...
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    45 mins
  • 111. Effects of AI with Dietmar Fischer

    111. Effects of AI with Dietmar Fischer
    Apr 14 2026
    This month we're chatting with Dietmar Fischer about what we will mean by saying "AI" in the future? AI in science fiction, the fact that AI’s don’t want for anything, jobs and the political effects of unemployment, post-work society and defining what a good life is, the Chinese AI legislation, protecting young people from AI anthropomorphising, AI literacy, the AI bubble, Human extinction, and more
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    52 mins
  • 110. Organoid Computing with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys

    110. Organoid Computing with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys
    Mar 31 2026
    This month we're chatting with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the uses of organoids and energy saving computing, the unknowns in neural science, differences between biological neurons and digital neural networks, how neurons operate and encoding information, the impractical nature of recreating brain structures, the tendency to anthropomorphise, determinism and more...
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    44 mins
  • 109. Intelligence explosion with James Barrat

    109. Intelligence explosion with James Barrat
    Mar 3 2026
    This episode James and I are trying to stay positive while chatting about: superintelligence, AI basic drives, and the alignment problem; The intelligence explosion, existential risks of AI; profit over responsibility, the super rich; AI regulation and much more
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    1 hr
  • 108. Moral Agents with Jen Semler

    108. Moral Agents with Jen Semler
    Feb 4 2026
    This month we chatted in-person with Jen Semler. We chatted about what is AI? Philosophers and engineer collboartions, businesses working with ethicists, machine ethics and AMAs, what makes a moral agent, how to create a moral agent, types of moral decisions, the point of moral agents, how can we tell if a machine is conscious, tech companies being not democratic organisations and don’t have to adhere to their citizens, and more...
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    44 mins
  • 107. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford

    107. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford
    Jan 13 2026
    For our 2025 round up episode we're again chatting with Lisa Talia Moretti on the prevalence of AI slop, the end of social media, Grok and explicit content generation, giving legislation more teeth, anthropomorphising reasoning models, AI literacy and safeguarding, fighting data centre construction, importantance of journalism, and AI chatbot bingo...
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    42 mins
  • 106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano

    106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano
    Dec 3 2025
    This month we're chatting with Giulia Trojano about AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, deskilling of digital literacy, chatbot parental controls, differences between social AI and general AI services, increasing surveillance in the guise of safety, advertising creeping into GenAI services, ReplikaAI, lack of research in emotional AI, techno-determinism, and more...
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    1 hr and 1 min