Machine Ethics with Ben Byford, 3 December 2025

My discussion with Ben on AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, deskilling of digital literacy, increasing surveillance in the guise of safety, advertising creeping into GenAI services, ReplikaAI, lack of research in emotional AI, techno-determinism, and more...

Made by Many, 4 June 2025

“Checklist Regulation”

While I touch on 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 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 no one prevents Big Tech from lobbying hard and leveraging its over-representation within these standard setting bodies then AI regulation in the EU becomes meaningless, an empty compliance checklist…

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 face of AI threats.