AI and Technology Ethics Podcast
1) #26 Iwan Williams: Do Language Models Have Intentions?
In this episode of the AITEC podcast, Sam Bennett speaks with philosopher of mind and AI researcher Iwan Williams about his paper "Intention-like representations in language models?" Williams is a pos...Show More
2) #25 Pilar López-Cantéro: The Ethics of Breakup Chatbots
What if your ex never really left—because you trained a chatbot to be them? In this episode of the AITEC Podcast, we're joined by philosopher Pilar López-Cantéro to explore her provocative article, Th...Show More
3) #24 Kevin Crowston and Francesco Bolici: The Death of Expertise?
In this episode of the AITEC Podcast, we sit down with Kevin Crowston and Francesco Bolici—two leading scholars of information science and organizational behavior—to explore the hidden risks of genera...Show More
4) #23 Sebastian Purcell: Rootedness, Not Happiness — Aztec Wisdom for a Slippery World
In this episode, we speak with philosopher Sebastian Purcell about his new book The Outward Path: Lessons on Living from the Aztecs. Purcell shows that Aztec philosophy offers a strikingly different v...Show More
#23 Sebastian Purcell: Rootedness, Not Happiness — Aztec Wisdom for a Slippery World
1:17:04 | Oct 17th, 2025
5) #22 Iain Thomson: Why Heidegger Thought Technology Was More Dangerous Than We Realize
What if our deepest fears about AI aren't really about the machines at all—but about something we've forgotten about ourselves? In this episode, we speak with philosopher Iain D. Thomson (University o...Show More
#22 Iain Thomson: Why Heidegger Thought Technology Was More Dangerous Than We Realize
1:18:16 | Oct 3rd, 2025
6) #21 Jayashri Bangali: AI in Education
In this episode, we sit down with Jayashri A. Bangali, a researcher and educator whose work explores the evolving role of artificial intelligence in education—both in India and around the world. We di...Show More
7) #20 Bernardo Bolaños and Jorge Luis Morton: On Stoicism and Technology
In this episode, we speak with Bernardo Ferro and Jorge Freire, authors of On Singularity and the Stoics [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-024-00548-w], about the rise of generative AI...Show More
8) #19 Joshua Hatherley: When Your Doctor Uses AI—Should They Tell You?
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Joshua Hatherley, a bioethicist at the University of Copenhagen, about his recent article, "Are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machi...Show More
9) #18 Jeff Kane: Minds, Machines, and the Meaning of Being Human
Philosopher Jeff Kane [https://waldorfgarden.org/about/meet-our-board/jeffrey-kane/] joins us to discuss his new book The Emergence of Mind: Where Technology Ends and We Begin [https://link.springer.c...Show More
10) #17 Caroline Ashcroft: The Catastrophic Imagination
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Caroline Ashcroft, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford and author of Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought. Drawing on figures like Aren...Show More