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Podcast: Can AI be Ethical?

Appearing on the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub's Podcast series discussing AI and ethics

Dr Joseph Lindley 20 Jul 2022

I appeared on the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub’s Podcast, Living with AI recently, hosted by Sean Riley. It’s the (now) age-old intractable problem of, can ‘intelligent’ machines be ethical. Of course I believe that Design Research can offer a lot here, and used the example of our Trust me? I’m an autonomous machine project as an exemplar of that.

You can listen to the podcast here.

The following Twitter thread promoting the podcast highlighted one issue that I firmly identify with. What is AI anyway? The term is so widely thrown around, and as per discussions I have published elsewhere about the definitional dualism of AI, I really believe the way we use the term AI is problematic.

Can AI be Ethical?

Join the @tas_hub’s ethics-based researchers in this new episode.https://t.co/Rimo9lkMMv

With : Enrico Gerding, @omoronyia, @joegalen & myself @cubicgarden hosted by @seanski44 #ethics #ai #livingwithai
— Ian | #blacklivesmatter | @cubicgarden@mas.to (@cubicgarden) July 20, 2022

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Dr Joseph Lindley

Joe leads Design Research Works and is a Senior Research Fellow at Lancaster University. He is passionate about the value of Design Research, in particular in applying that value to the challenges associated with emerging technologies, rapid societal change, and living sustainably. Probably best described as a 'generalist' his research practice usually involves material engagements with possible futures.