I am Maria Geller, an Ayurveda Medicine Health Counselor, Hatha Yoga Teacher, and a Wellness Coach rooted in the wisdom of Yoga, Vedanta, and Ayurveda. I support individuals on their journey of conscious living and well-being. I empower others to transform their lives to be happier, healthier, and feel freer.
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Discourse on AI Ethics. News, explanation and Interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, creatives and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, technology ethics and more.
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This is a bonus episode we're looking back over answers to our question: What scares you about AI?Af Ben Byford and friends
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90. An ethos for the future with Wendell Wallach
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This time we're chatting with Wendell Wallach on moral machines and Machine Ethics, AGI sceptics, the usefulness of the term of artificial intelligence, a new ethic or ethos for human society, ethics as decisions fast and slow, trade-off ethics, the AI oligopoly, the good and bad of capitalism, conciousness, global workspace theory and more...…
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89. AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference - Special Edition
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In this special edition episode we hear vox-pops recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference in Bristol on the 15th of May 2024. We hear about AI regulations, AI Standards, AI Ethics frameworks, principles, ethics guiding research, awareness of the ethics of AI, and explainable AI.Af Ben Byford and Herbie Robson at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference
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88. AI fictions with Alex Shvartsman
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This episode we're chatting with Alex Shvartsman about what is our AI future, human crafted storytelling, the Generative AI use backlash, disclaimers for generated text, human vs AI authorship, practical or functional goals of LLMs, changing themes in science fiction, a diversity of international perspectives and more...…
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87. Good tech with Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney
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This episode we're chatting with Eleanor and Kerry on what is good technology and is it even possible? Technology is political, watering down regulation, the magic of AI, the value of human creativity, how Feminism, Aboriginal, mixed race studies can help AI development? The performative nature tech and more...…
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This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What is AI?Af Ben Byford and guests
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85. New forms of story telling with Guy Gadney
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This episode we're chatting with Guy Gadney on new forms of story telling, placing people inside a story, natural language in games, LLM hype, data used in LLMs, copyright infringment, the destructive ideology of innovation, an unprecedented redistribution of wealth away from the cultural industries and more...…
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84. Review of 2023 with Karin Rudolph
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For our in-person episode on 2023 with Karin Rudolph we chat about the Future of Life Institute letter, existential risk of AI, TESCREAL, Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation from Google, the AI Safety Summit, EU AI act and legislating AI, neural rights and more...Af Ben Byford with Karin Rudolph
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83. Avoidable misery with Adam Braus
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This episode we're chatting with Adam Braus about natural stupidity, natural intelligence, misericordianism and avoidable misery, the drowning child thought experiment, natural state of morality, Donald Trump bot, Asimov’s rules, human instincts, the positive outcomes of AI and more...Af Ben Byford with Adam Braus
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82. Work, wellness and creativity with Harriet Pellereau
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This episode we're chatting with Harriet Pellereau about AI’s lack of reasoning ability, uses of generative AI, creativity and AI, what even is creativity? creative duties, new ways of working / digital working, 4 day week global, work life balance, the hidden cost of convenience, responsible tech and more...…
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81. The state of AI Ethics with Alice Thwaite
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This time I'm chatting to alice about teaching ethics, the idea of information environments, the importance of democracy, the Ethics hype train and the ethics community, people to follow in AI and Data Ethics, ethics as innovation and more...Af Ben Byford with Alice Thwaite
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80. Art and AI collaboration with Sarah Brin
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This time we're chatting with Sarah Brin about types of AI, the process of making artwork, how is an artwork culturally valuable, curatorial practise for AI art, unionising creative art workers, collaborative artwork with AI, using AI to help the climate emergency, AI in games and more...Af Ben Byford with Sarah Brin
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79. Taming Uncertainty with Roger Spitz
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This time we chat with Roger Spitz about how to think about the future, what does a futurist do? Thriving with disruption, a chief existential officer, virtuous inflection points, delegating too much authority / decision making, our inappropriate education systemAf Ben Byford with Roger Spitz
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This episode Nadia and I chat about how design can co-create AI, what the role of designers are in AI services? post-deployment design, narratives in AI development and AI ideologues, anthropocentric AI, augmented creativity, new AI perspectives, situated intelligences and more...Af Ben Byford with Nadia Piet
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This episode Marc Steen and I chat about: AI as tools, the ethics of business models, writing Ethics for People Who Work in Tech, the process of ethics - “doing ethics” and his three step process, misconceptions of ethics as compliance or a road block, evaluating ethical theories, universal rights, types of knowledges, what is the world we’re creat…
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76. The professionalisation of data science with Dr Marie Oldfield
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This episode we're talking with Dr Marie Oldfield on definitions of AI, the education and communication gaps with AI, explainable models, ethics in education, problems with audits and legislation, AI accreditation, importance of interdisciplinary teams, when to use AI or not, and harms from algorithms.…
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75. The moral status of non-humans with Josh Gellers
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This episode we talk with Josh Gellers about nature rights, rights for robots, non-human and human rights, justification for the attribution of rights, the sphere of moral importance, perspectives on legal and moral concepts, shaping better policy, the Lamda/Lemoine controversy, predicates of legal personhood, the heated discourse on robot rights, …
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74. AI, ethics and the future - DFA talk special edition
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In this special edition episode with Data Science Festival we're hosting a panel discussing: what is ethics? Designing for Responsible AI, ethics as innovation and competitive advantage, ghost work, fairer AI, language as a human computer interface, cleaning up the web, technologies that shouldn’t be deployed and much more...…
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73. 2022 in review with Olivia Gamblin
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For this end of year episode I'm joined by Olivia Gamblinn to discuss: ethics boards, generative images models and copywrite, concept art, model bias and representation in the generative models, paying artists to appear in training sets, plagerism, chatGPT and when it breaks down, factual “truth” in text models, expectations for AI and digital tech…
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72. Algorithms with Social Impact with Mitchel Ondili
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This episode we talk with Mitchel Ondili on algorithm awareness, technology colonisation in the global south, OASI the registry for Algorithms with Social Impact, AI auditing, private vs public rights to consent, submitting your algorithms to OASI, hiring, and social services algorithms, the over datafication of life, or becoming an algorithmic sub…
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71. The Politics of AI with Mark Coeckelbergh
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This episode we talk with Mark Coeckelbergh about AI as a story about machines and where are we heading in creating human level intelligence, moral standing and robot-animal interfaces, technology determinism, environmental impacts of robots and AI, energy budgets, politics and AI, self-regulation and global governance for global issues.…
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70. Rights, trust and ethical choice with Ricardo Baeza-Yates
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This episode we talk with Ricardo Baeza-Yates about: Responsible AI, the importance of AI governance, questioning people's intent to create AGI, robot rights and brain / neural rights, the evolution of intelligence, ethical risk assessment, machine ethics, making ethical choices on behalf of your users, binary notions of trust, stupid uses of AI an…
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69. AI ethics strategy with Reid Blackman
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In this episode we talk with Reid Blackman about: what is learning? What it means to be worthy of trust, bullsh**t AI principles, company values, purpose and use in decision making, his AI ethics risk strategy book, machine ethics as a fools errand, weighing metrics for measuring bias, ethics committees, police and the IRB. And much more...…
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68. Ethics of digital worlds with Richard Bartle
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Richard Bartle joins us again after his appearance on ep.65 to chat about the metaverse, different ways to design AI controlled NPC, the lack of progress of AI in games, ethical considerations of games designers, ethics of AI life, virutalism, 'smart' AI will happened, robot rights and more...Af Ben Byford with Richard Bartle
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This episode we're chatting with Ryan Carrier about the positivity of the ForHumanity community, being compelled to do something about AI technologies negative impact, AI audits and topics including: trust, oversight, governance, privacy, cyber security, bias; creating an infrastructure of trust, disclosing found risks and the ethical decisions, th…
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66. 2021 in review with Merve Hickok
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This episode Ben and Merve are chatting about 2021–EU AI legislation & harmonising AI product markets through policy, the UNESCO principles, systemic dogma, AI ethics in defence, Reith lectures and Lethal autonomous weapons, demonstrating values / principles and much more...Af Ben Byford and Merve Hickok
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This first Deepdive episode we talk to Amandine Flachs, Tommy Thompson and Richard Bartle about AI in games, it's history, it's uses and where its going. We discover NPCs, games as a test bed for AI research, different game AI techniques, back office uses of AI, job displacement, bad actors and possible futures...…
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64. Emotion detection with Andrew McStay
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This episode we're chatting with Andrew McStay about emotional human machine interface, emotion face and voice detection, emotion detection and hiring–and the possiblity of gaming these systems, interactive AI kids toys, the space between an ethical subject and an object in AI systems, raising children in an AI world, cultural differences in emotio…
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63. AI readiness with Tim El-Sheikh
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This episode we're talking with Tim El-Sheikh of Nebuli.com. We chat about definitions of intelligence and augmented intelligence, ethical AI as the smarter AI, importance of a businesses AI strategy and getting data ready, AGI and what is conciousness? Human intuition, privacy as a human right and more...…
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62. What excites you about AI? Vol.1
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In this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What excites you about our AI mediated future? We chat about rethinking our responsibility towards our world, algorithms that work for everyone not just the a few, social justice, solving coordination problems and humanitarian problems, growing as a humanity…
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61. Welcome to the Machine Ethics podcast
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Short introduction to the podcast: what it is about, when it started, and how to get involved.Af Ben Byford
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60. Responsible AI Research with Madhulika Srikumar
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This time we're talking AI research with Madhulika Srikumar of Partnership on AI. We chat about managing the risks of AI research, how should the AI community think about the consequences of their research, documenting best practises for AI, OpenAI's GTP2 research disclosure example, considering unintended consequences & negative downstream outcome…
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59. What scares you about AI? Vol.1
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In this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What scares you about our AI mediated future? We chat gender imbalance and lack of diversity, digital personhood, climate change, ubiquitous surveillance, deep-fakes, people misusing AI, human hubris, capitalism getting in the way and more...…
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58. AI regulation with Lofred Madzou
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We chat with Lofred Madzou about AI as a journey to understand ourselves through smart machines, scepticism about wholesale job lose, understanding that “you are not your data”, dissecting the European proposal for AI regulation, examples of types of AI activities under regulation, the spirit of the regulation - human rights centric, risk based app…
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004: Ayurvedic Cooking: Support Optimal Digestion
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What are the Six Tastes? Learn the basic Ayurvedic principles of healthy cooking and eating. We explore what foods we need to include to support our health and what foods we may need to eliminate to support our health. We discuss the best time to have the biggest meal of the day and why! Learn how seasons affect your mind-body constitution and how …
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003: The Mechanics Of Ayurveda: Basic Principles 101
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Like our fingerprints, no other person is identical. Therefore, Ayurveda medicine allows us to adapt its practices, herbs, treatment plans to target the unique blueprint of each individual. Learn to integrate alternative medicine into your everyday living. Are you taking pills or drugs and feel concerned that you may not participate in a holistic l…
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002: The Exact Steps To Your Meditation Practice
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Ready to change your life? The exact steps to your meditation practice are available to you right now and right here! Don't put yourself on hold! Do not delay your chance to feeling great! Learn to meditate! Take control. Stop feeling anxious. Stop feeling depressed. Stop feeling sick. Connect to your true self. Enjoy eternal bliss and peace. Learn…
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57. Value Sensitive Design with Steven Umbrello
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We're talking with Steven Umbrello about transhumanism, his passion for philosophy and it's practical applications, Value sensitive design a modular design practise, technologies co-constructing society, integrating VSD using agile workflows, issues of principles, moral imagination and more...Af Ben Byford with Steven Umbrello
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This episode is our second bonus compilation of answers from previous years of interviews asking the question: What is AI? We hear from past interviewees Jess Smith, Rishal Hurbans, Jacob Turner, Cennydd Bowles, Joanna J Bryson, Damien Williams, Olivia Gamelin, David Gunkel, Bertram Malle, David Yakobovitch, Luciano Floridi, Lydia Nicholas.…
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001: How Yoga and Meditation Can Support Your Physical And Mental Well-Being
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Can yoga and meditation help me reduce stress? Am I flexible enough to do yoga? What is meditation? Can I meditate if I have never meditated before? How do I stop myself from constantly thinking? What can I do to stop feeling anxious and depressed? How do I relieve my panic attacks? Imagine you could simply exist in the present moment? Imagine you …
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55. Speculative design with Phil Balagtas
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We're chatting with Phil Balagtas about speculative & critical design, speculative design as a strategy tool, using design as a what if tool, or a story to strive for, The Design Futures Initiative, doing meanful work, and getting to real trust in mission critical AI...Af Ben Byford with Phil Balagtas
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54. The business of AI ethics with Josie Young
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This episode we're chatting with the amazing Josie Young on making businesses more efficient, how the AI ethics landscape changed over the last 5 years, ethics roles and collaborations, feminist AI and chatbots, responsible AI at Microsoft, ethics push back from teams and selling in AI ethics, disinformation’s risk to democracy and more...…
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53. Comedy and AI with Anthony Jeannot
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A laid back episode of the podcast where Anthony and I chat about Netflix and recommender systems, finding comedy in AI, AI written movies and theatre, human content moderation, bringing an AI Ben back from the dead, constructing jokes recursively and much more...Af Ben Byford with Anthony Jeannot
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52. Algorithmic discrimination with Damien Williams
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This episode we chat with Damien Williams about types of human and algorithmic discrimination, human-technology expectations and norms, algorithms and benefit services, the contextual nature of sample data, is face recognition even a good idea? Should we be scared that GTP-3 will take our jobs and the cultural value of jobs, encoding values into au…
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51. AGI Safety and Alignment with Robert Miles
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This episode we're chatting with Robert Miles about why we even want artificial general intelligence, general AI as narrow AI where its input is the world, when predictions of AI sound like science fiction, covering terms like: AI safety, the control problem, Ai alignment, specification problem; the lack of people working in AI alignment, AGI doesn…
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50. Privacy and the end of the data economy with Carissa Veliz
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This episode we're chatting with Carissa Véliz on the transforming of power, how personal data is toxic, end of the data economy, dangers of privacy violations, differential privacy, what you can do to help, ethics committees and more...Af Ben Byford with Carissa Véliz
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49. 2020 rambling chat with Ben Gilburt and Ben Byford
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This episode Ben and Ben are chatting about 2020 - Timnit Gebru leaving google, the promise of AI and COVID-19, Kaggle's COVID competition, GTP3, test and trace apps and privacy, AI Ethics bookclub, AI ethics courses, when transparency is good or bad, alpha fold, and more...Af Ben Byford and Ben Gilburt
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This episode we're chatting with Jess Smith about the Radical AI podcast and defining the word radical, what is AI - non-living ability to learn… maybe, AI consciousness, the responsibility of technologists, robot rights, what makes us human, creativity and more...Af Ben Byford with Jess Smith
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47. Robot Rights with David Gunkel
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This episode we're chatting with David Gunkel on AI ideologies, why write the Robots Rights book, what are rights and categories of rights, computer ethics and hitch bot, anthropomorphising as a human feature, supporting environmental rights through this endeavour of robot rights, relational ethics, and acknowledging the western ethical view point.…
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46. Belief Systems and AI with Dylan Doyle-Burke
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This month we're chatting with Dylan Doyle-Burke of the Radical AI podcast about starting the podcast, new religions and how systems of belief relate to AI, faith and digital participation, digital death and memorial, what does it mean to be human, and much more...Af Ben Byford with Dylan Doyle-Burke
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