Podcast Episodes

Can We Do Anything that Computers Can’t?

Episode 10

Episode 10 - Can We Do Anything that Computers Can’t?

J and Nir talk to Tal Hassner, formerly of Amazon and Meta, about Deep Fakes, AGI, and whether …

1 year, 8 months ago

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Can we do anything that computers can’t?

Episode 10

Episode 10 - Can We Do Anything That Computers Can’t?

J and Nir talk to Tal Hassner, formerly of Amazon and Meta, about Deep Fakes, AGI, and whether …

1 year, 8 months ago

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Facial Recognition

Episode 9

Episode 9 - Facial Recognition

Nir and J. talk about facial recognition. Topics covered include considerations of bias, the role of privacy, and whet…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Tech Policy Under Trump 2

Episode 8

Episode 8 - Tech Policy Under Trump 2

Nir and J. talk about the prospects for tech policy under Trump's second term. They discuss the new administrat…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Supersoldiers

Episode 7

Episode 7 - Supersoldiers 

Nir and J. discuss ethical issues surrounding so-called super soldiers and human augmentation in warfare.

Additional Resou…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Moral Machines

Episode 6

Episode 6 - Moral Machines

In this episode, Nir and J. discuss whether machines can be moral. What does it take for something to be a moral patient o…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Artificial General Intelligence

Episode 5

Prosthetic Gods: Artificial General Intelligence

In this episode of Prosthetic Gods, J. Hughes and Nir Eisikovits dive into artificial general intell…

1 year, 10 months ago

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AI Clones

Episode 4

AI Clones 

This week Drs. Nir and J. discuss the concept of AI clones with postdoctoral fellow Cody Turner, and in particular the short podcast serie…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Bad Knowledge

Episode 3

Can There Be Bad Knowledge?

In medical ethics there are debates about when people should be encouraged to get tested for diseases or conditions for w…

2 years ago

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Digital Democracy

Episode 2

Taiwan’s Experiments with E-democracy:

Can AI be good for democracy? Taiwan has been experimenting with digital democracy for a decade. In this week’…

2 years ago

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