أفضل بودكاسات Transhuman (2024)

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#9 - Christian Transhumanist Association: Bringing Science and Faith Together | with Micah Redding 20:39

3+ y ago20:39

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with Micah Redding about the necessity of combining Religion and Technology for a better Future. They discuss the Christian Transhumanist Association's viewpoint regarding Longevity, Faith, and Transhumanism. After the success of Episode #2, Micah provides another religious perspective vis-à-vis Transhumanism. H…

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#8 - The Past, Present, and Future of Money and Trade | with George Al Bcherraoui 34:30

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with George Al Bcherraoui about the history of money and commerce, all the way from barter to cryptocurrencies. They discuss how trade evolved thanks to Human ingenuity and technological advancements, with Humans always looking after more convenient ways of doing Business - which happens to be digital at the pre…

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#7 - Curing Human Aging | with Dr. Aubrey de Grey 25:03

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with Dr. Aubrey de Grey about the necessity of fighting Aging: Humans' deadliest disease. They discuss the crucial need to eliminate all the fallacies concerning Aging, as well as Anti-Aging Research. Dr. de Grey clearly explains what is Aging, why it is a Human disease and how achieving a post-aging era can era…

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#6 - Bitcoin: The Currency of the Future? | with Thomas Semaan 35:13

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with Thomas Semaan about Bitcoin, from a financial perspective. They discuss what makes Bitcoin so special and why this currency might revolutionize the future of money and commerce; hence, evolution. Read Thomas' interesting articles on his Medium blog and listen to his Al3a Podcast.…

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#5 - The Evolution of Humans' Internal Defensive Mechanisms | SOLO 21:05

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In this episode, Elio Gereige goes SOLO, speaking about the past, present and possible future of Human internal defensive mechanisms. He provides an overview of the defensive responses that Homo Sapiens developed through ages, while also highlighting the need for better protective measures against the threats that will most probably accompany the T…

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#4 - Cannabinoids, Biotechnology and Targeted Drug Delivery | with Marissa El Hage 20:50

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with Marissa El Hage about her team's promising cannabis research as a cure for many diseases and infections. They discuss the future of medicine using cannabinoids, biotechnology, and targeted drug delivery biotechniques; hopefully paving the way for Super Wellbeing, a fundamental pillar of Transhumanism.Send m…

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#3 - Transhumanism: The Growing Worldview | with Dr. Natasha Vita-More 42:45

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with Dr. Natasha Vita-More about the Growing Worldview of Transhumanism. They discuss the three pillars of Transhumanism: Super Wellbeing, Superintelligence and Superlongevity. In addition, Dr. Vita-More explains her perspective on the crucial need of implementing and integrating Transhumanism in our lives (whic…

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#2 - Religion, Christian Transhumanism and Superlongevity | with Maroun Haykal 22:16

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with Maroun Haykal about the Catholic Church's perspective towards Human enhancement and longevity. They discuss Christianity's standpoint towards Transhumanism, and Superlongevity in particular.

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#1 - CRISPR, 3D-Bioprinting and Xenotransplantation | with Elie Chalhoub 32:58

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In this episode, Elio Gereige speaks with Elie Chalhoub about CRISPR, 3D-Bioprinting and Xenotransplantation. They discuss the employment of these technologies as potential cures to all types of diseases, as well as the safe and ethical implementation of gene editing tools and synthetic organs, to upgrade Homo Sapiens in the near future.…

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85 – The Internet and the Tyranny of Perceived Opinion

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Are we losing our liberty as a result of digital technologies and algorithmic power? In particular, might algorithmically curated filter bubbles be creating a world that encourages both increased polarisation and increased conformity at the same time? In today’s podcast, I discuss these issues with Henrik Skaug Sætra. Henrik is a political scientis…

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84 – Social Media, COVID-19 and Value Change

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Do our values change over time? What role do emotions and technology play in altering our values? In this episode I talk to Steffen Steinert about these issues. Steffen is a postdoctoral researcher on the Value Change project at TU Delft, Ph.D. His research focuses on the philosophy of technology, ethics of technology, emotions, and aesthetics. He …

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83 – Privacy is Power

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Are you being watched, tracked and traced every minute of the day? Probably. The digital world thrives on surveillance. What should we do about this? My guest today is Carissa Véliz. Carissa is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute of Ethics in AI at Oxford University. She is also a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford Colleg…

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82 – What should we do about facial recognition?

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Facial recognition technology has seen its fair share of both media and popular attention in the past 12 months. The runs the gamut from controversial uses by governments and police forces, to coordinated campaigns to ban or limit its use. What should we do about it? In this episode, I talk to Brenda Leong about this issue. Brenda is Senior Counsel…

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81 – Consumer Credit, Big Tech and AI Crime

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In today’s episode, I talk to Nikita Aggarwal about the legal and regulatory aspects of AI and algorithmic governance. We focus, in particular, on three topics: (i) algorithmic credit scoring; (ii) the problem of ‘too big to fail’ tech platforms and (iii) AI crime. Nikita is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford, as well as a Rese…

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Ep 45: The Realities of Social Construction, with Sam from the Broken Book Bible Podcast 1:01:34

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How can we love religion when so many are hurt? How do we describe the reality of social constructs? Does Jesus have a personality? What's St. Paul's social media presence? Is God an AI? twitter @BrokenBookPod Broken Book Podcast twitter @micahtredding Deconstruction John Calvin Calvin College How to be human. Different messages from the minor prop…

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Ep 44: Moritz Bierling on self, second brain, and personal transformation 1:29:16

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Moritz Bierling & Micah Redding discuss the self, the second brain, and the process of individual and group transformation.بقلم Micah Redding, Moritz Bierling

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79 – Is There a Techno-Responsibility Gap?

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What happens if an autonomous machine does something wrong? Who, if anyone, should be held responsible for the machine’s actions? That’s the topic I discuss in this episode with Daniel Tigard. Daniel Tigard is a Senior Research Associate in the Institute for History & Ethics of Medicine, at the Technical University of Munich. His current work addre…

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77 – Should AI be Explainable?

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If an AI system makes a decision, should its reasons for making that decision be explainable to you? In this episode, I chat to Scott Robbins about this issue. Scott is currently completing his PhD in the ethics of artificial intelligence at the Technical University of Delft. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from California State University, Chic…

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76 – Surveillance, Privacy and COVID 19

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How do we get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic? One suggestion is that we use increased amounts of surveillance and tracking to identify and isolate infected and at-risk persons. While this might be a valid public health strategy it does raise some tricky ethical questions. In this episode I talk to Carissa Véliz about these questions. Ca…

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75 – The Vital Ethical Contexts of COVID 19

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There is a lot of data and reporting out there about the COVID 19 pandemic. How should we make sense of that data? Do the media narratives misrepresent or mislead us as to the true risks associated with the disease? Have governments mishandled the response? These are the questions I discuss with my guest on today’s show: David Shaw. David is a Seni…

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74 – How to Understand COVID 19

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I’m still thinking a lot about the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode I turn away from some of the ‘classical’ ethical questions about the disease and talk more about how to understand it and form reasonable beliefs about the public health information that has been issued in response to it. To help me do this I will be talking to Katherine Furman. …

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73 – The Ethics of Healthcare Prioritisation during COVID 19

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We have a limited number of ventilators? Who should get access to them? In this episode I talk to Lars Sandman. Lars is a Professor of Healthcare Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden. Lars’s research involves studying ethical aspects of distributing scarce resources within health care and studying and developing methods for ethical analyses of he…

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72 – Grief in the Time of a Pandemic

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Lots of people are dying right now. But people die all the time. How should we respond to all this death? In this episode I talk to Michael Cholbi about the philosophy of grief. Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in ethical theory, practical ethics, and the philosophy of death and dying…

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71 – COVID 19 and the Ethics of Infectious Disease Control

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As nearly half the world’s population is now under some form of quarantine or lockdown, it seems like an apt time to consider the ethics of infectious disease control measures of this sort. In this episode, I chat to Jonathan Pugh and Tom Douglas, both of whom are Senior Research Fellows at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford, about th…

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70 – Ethics in the time of Corona

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Like almost everyone else, I have been obsessing over the novel coronavirus pandemic for the past few months. Given the dramatic escalation in the pandemic in the past week, and the tricky ethical questions it raises for everyone, I thought it was about time to do an episode about it. So I reached out to people on Twitter and Jeff Sebo kindly volun…

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69 – Wood on Sustainable Superabundance

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In this episode I talk to David Wood. David is currently the chair of the London Futurists group and a full-time futurist speaker, analyst, commentator, and writer. He studied the philosophy of science at Cambridge University. He has a background in designing, architecting, implementing, supporting, and avidly using smart mobile devices. He is the …

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68 – Earp on the Ethics of Love Drugs

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In this episode I talk (again) to Brian Earp. Brian is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and a Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. Brian has diverse research interests in ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of …

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67 – Rini on Deepfakes and the Epistemic Backstop

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In this episode I talk to Dr Regina Rini. Dr Rini currently teaches in the Philosophy Department at York University, Toronto where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition. She has a PhD from NYU and before coming to York in 2017 was an Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Bioethics, a po…

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66 – Wong on Confucianism, Robots and Moral Deskillling

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In this episode I talk to Dr Pak-Hang Wong. Pak is a philosopher of technology and works on ethical and political issues of emerging technologies. He is currently a research associate at the Universitat Hamburg. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Twente in 2012, and then held academic positions in Oxford and Hong Kong. In 2017…

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65 – Vold on How We Can Extend Our Minds With AI

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In this episode I talk to Dr Karina Vold. Karina is a philosopher of mind, cognition, and artificial intelligence. She works on the ethical and societal impacts of emerging technologies and their effects on human cognition. Dr Vold is currently a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, a Research Fel…

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#64 – Munthe on the Precautionary Principle and Existential Risk

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In this episode I talk to Christian Munthe. Christian is a Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He conducts research and expert consultation on ethics, value and policy issues arising in the intersection of health, science & technology, the environment and society. He is probably best-known for his work on the …

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#63 – Reagle on the Ethics of Life Hacking

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In this episode I talk to Joseph Reagle. Joseph is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and a former fellow (in 1998 and 2010) and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. He is the author of several books and papers about digital media and the social implications of di…

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#62 – Häggström on AI Motivations and Risk Denialism

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In this episode I talk to Olle Häggström. Olle is a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Olle’s main research is in probability theory and statistical mechanics, but in recent years he has …

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#61 – Yampolskiy on Machine Consciousness and AI Welfare

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In this episode I talk to Roman Yampolskiy. Roman is a Tenured Associate Professor in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books and papers on AI security and ethics, including …

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#60 – Véliz on How to Improve Online Speech with Pseudonymity

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In this episode I talk to Carissa Véliz. Carissa is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. She works on digital ethics, practical ethics more generally, political philosophy, and public policy. She is also the Director of the research programme ‘Data…

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#59 – Torres on Existential Risk, Omnicidal Agents and Superintelligence

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In this episode I talk to Phil Torres. Phil is an author and researcher who primarily focuses on existential risk. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University. He has published widely on emerging technologies, terrorism, and existential risks, with articles appearing in the Bulletin …

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#58 – Neely on Augmented Reality, Ethics and Property Rights

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In this episode I talk to Erica Neely. Erica is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Northern University specializing in philosophy of technology and computer ethics. Her work focuses is on the ethical ramifications of emerging technologies. She has written a number of papers on 3D printing, the ethics of video games, robotics and augmented…

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#57 – Sorgner on Nietzschean Transhumanism

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In this episode I talk Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. Stefan teaches philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome. He is director and co-founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, and Visting Fellow a…

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#56 – Turner on Rules for Robots

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In this episode I talk to Jacob Turner. Jacob is a barrister and author. We chat about his new book, Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which discusses how to address legal responsibility, rights and ethics for AI. You can download here or listen below. You can also subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher …

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#55 – Baum on the Long-Term Future of Human Civilisation

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In this episode I talk to Seth Baum. Seth is an interdisciplinary researcher working across a wide range of fields in natural and social science, engineering, philosophy, and policy. His primary research focus is global catastrophic risk. He also works in astrobiology. He is the Co-Founder (with Tony Barrett) and Executive Director of the Global Ca…

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Episode #54 – Sebo on the Moral Problem of Other Minds

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In this episode I talk to Jeff Sebo. Jeff is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy, and Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program at New York University. Jeff’s research focuses on bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics. He has two co-authored books C…

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Episode #53 – Christin on How Algorithms Actually Impact Workers

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In this episode I talk to Angèle Christin. Angèle is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where she is also affiliated with the Sociology Department and Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Her research focuses on how algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work pra…

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Episode #52 – Devlin on Sex Robots and Moral Panics

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In this episode I talk to Kate Devlin. Kate is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Kate’s research is in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), investigating how people interact with and react to technology in order to understand how emerging and future techno…

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Episode #51 – Moen on the Unabomber’s Ethics

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In this episode I talk to Ole Martin Moen. Ole Martin is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He works on how to think straight about thorny issues in applied ethics. He is the Principal Investigator of “What should not be bought and sold?”, a $1 million research project funded by the Research Council of Norway. In the past, h…

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Episode #50 – Loi on Facebook, Justice and Data as the New Oil

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In this episode I talk to Michele Loi. Michele is a political philosopher turned bioethicist turned digital ethicist. He is currently (2017-2020) working on two interdisciplinary projects, one of which is about the ethical implications of big data at the University of Zurich. In the past, he developed an ethical framework of governance for the Swis…

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Episode #49 – Maas on AI and the Future of International Law

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In this episode I talk to Matthijs Maas. Matthijs is a doctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s ‘AI and Legal Disruption’ research unit, and a research affiliate with the Governance of AI Program at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. His research focuses on safe and beneficial global governance strategies for emerging, t…

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Episode #48 – Gunkel on Robot Rights

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In this episode I talk to David Gunkel. David is a repeat guest, having first appeared on the show in Episode 10. David a Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is a leading scholar in the philosophy of technology, having written extensively about cyborgification, robot rights and responsibilities, remix cultures, ne…

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Episode #47 – Eubanks on Automating Inequality

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In this episode I talk to Virginia Eubanks. Virginia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of several books, including Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor and Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Her writing abo…

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Episode #46 – Minerva on the Ethics of Cryonics

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In this episode I talk to Francesca Minerva. Francesca is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ghent. Her research focuses on applied philosophy, specifically lookism, conscientious objection, abortion, academic freedom, and cryonics. She has published many articles on these topics in some of the leading academic journals in ethics and philos…

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Episode #45 – Vallor on Virtue Ethics and Technology

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In this episode I talk to Shannon Vallor. Shannon is the Regis and Diane McKenna Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, where her research addresses the ethical implications of emerging science and technology, especially AI, robotics and new media. Professor Vallor received the 2015 World Technology Award in Ethics fro…

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