Machine Ethics Podcast - 3 December 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...

Detecting Deepfakes Summit - 17 July 2025

Part of a panel of experts (Manon Baert, 5 Rights; George Billinge, Illuminate Tech) discussing whether and how the legal landscape has changed in the fact of AI threats

Checklist Regulation - 4 June 2025

While I discuss how tech bros first promoted ill-defined AI ethics principles...then self-regulation...then no regulation at all, my talk mostly focuses on the importance of standard setting bodies. These standard setting bodies (not widely known to the public) are mandated under EU law to set key standards which will influence what counts as harmful to fundamental human rights under the EU AI Act (and AI regulation more widely). But if Big Tech lobbies hard and leverages its over-representation within these standard setting bodies...what's likely to happen?

TL4 EU Digital Markets Competition Litigation & Compliance Forum - 10 March 2025, Brussels (upcoming)

Authenticity and Originality in the Age of AI - 11 February 2025, London (upcoming)

Part of a panel of experts discussing the role of authenticity and originality in the age of AI following a screening of Piotr Winiewicz’s “About a Hero” (2024), hosted by Made by Many.

TL4 Competition & AI Summit - 2 December 2025, London (link)

Part of a panel of experts at the second annual AI & Competition Summit. I discussed competition concerns arising from publishers restricting usage of their content through the use of blockers; risks arising out of Cloudflare’s “solution” to web crawlers; whether the recent Getty Images v Stability AI ruling in the UK provides any clarity on the intersection of AI and copyright in this jurisdiction; and how the widespread adoption of AI agents and their use of data could raise potential competition and ethical concerns.

Artificial General Intelligence - 29 April 2025, London (link)

Part of a panel of experts discussing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) following a screening of “The Thinking Game” hosted by Made by Many. I spoke, amongst other things, about issues surrounding the quantification of knowledge and its relationship to commercialised definition of AGI; regulating AGI; and learnings from other forms of intelligence (e.g. plant intelligence).

TL4 AI & Competition Summit - 3 December 2024, London (link)

Part of a panel of experts at the inaugural AI & Competition Summit. I discussed copyright issues arising out of datasets used to train foundation models; competition concerns arising from publishers restricting usage of their content through the use of blockers; licensing deals between publishers and model developers; and whether copyright provides publishers with sufficient countervailing market power to be compensated for the use of their works.

Detecting Deepfakes Summit - 11 November 2024, online (link)

The Detecting Deepfakes Summit (presented by DefAI, funded by InnovateUK and InnoSuisse) brought leading figures to tackle three questions (i) How are deepfakes being used to perpetrate harm online? (ii) What can we do about it? (iii) Is our current legislative landscape fit for purpose to protect us from these new forms of harm?

I spoke about the way in which deepfakes are making their way into the courtroom (evidence; criminal law) and what we might expect in the near future (development of personality rights).

Ethical Commerce Alliance Community Meetup - 19 October 2024, online (link)

I outlined the differences between UK and EU regulations on data and AI, with a specific focus on retailers.

Dialoghi - Present Continuous, curated by Arteco - 2 July 2019, Turin (link)

I discussed the myth of homeland in conversation with artist Ryts Monet (Enrico De Napoli) at Cripta 747.

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