The Ethics of Digital Immortality and Digital Ethics: Recent Episodes
Fuel
Is it ethical to be immortalised? Where do we draw a line between enhancing body functions with technology and crafting a new body standard? If technology makes reproducibility achievable, what is it that makes human experience unique?This Autumn Fuel is producing the world premiere of a live stage production from the author of The Night Manager, David Farr, directed by Rachel Bagshaw. A Dead Body In Taos is the story of a woman who travels to the New Mexico desert to bury her dead mother, but is her mother really dead? Or is her mind still alive?This podcast will be exploring some of the issues raised by this intriguing new thriller with leading experts in the field of AI and digital ethics. There are many familiar myths around artificial intelligence, and the reality of what technology makes possible is often distorted or romanticised in our collective imagination. But instead, we want to ask what dilemmas do AI pose in our world today? And weighed against the exciting new possibilities AI presents for society, what intersectional debates and ethical conundrums this technology throws up for how we interact and develop as human beings?Hosted by renewed poet, writer and educator Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, the podcast will welcome guests from scientists and sociologists to theatre makers, who will delve with us in the grey areas of digital ethics.Produced by Fuel and funded by The Alan Turing Institute.
In today's episode we are joined by dr Coral Manton, an artist-technologist, researcher and Subject Leader in Creative Computing at Bath Spa University. She is an advocate for women in technology and much of her work is focused on creating better relationships between technology and people. She is Co-Founder of Women Reclaiming AI, a conversational AI feminist voice assistant which is being co-developed by a growing community of 100+ Women.
Together we'll be exploring how machine learning still upholds gendered injustices, what unconscious biases can affect AI programming, and how Coral and her collective operate at a grassroot level to help women and marginalised communities reclaim and re-write AI.
Is it possible to create a version of ourselves true to what we are?
Considering that we don’t consciously remember all that we’ve experienced in our lives and that our unconscious memories are often more shaping of our behaviors and personalities, how “true” would digital versions of us be?
Or, if it was possible to capture and upload all of our memories, and we are the sum of our memories, is that all that we are?
In today's episode we are joined by Dr Chris Berry, Associate Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology at University of Plymouth. His research is primarily concerned with understanding human memory - both the conscious and unconscious forms, and how we can use formal models to test different theories relating to memory.
In today's episode we are joined by Rachel Bagshaw, an award-winning stage director and Associate Director at the Unicorn Theatre. She is also the director of a Dead Body in Taos.
Her practice raises questions about the relationship between technology and accessibility - what possibilities AI throws up in terms of resisting a disabling world and further, how it could even take us beyond traditional ideas of what counts as an ‘able-body’.
Does AI potentially deepen social injustices, or even create new areas of potential harm? Or conversely, what could happen if we harness AI for good and use it with accountability? Is AI something completely new to human experience, should it make us question what it means to be human, or is it simply a continuation of both the good and bad of human nature?
In today’s episode we are joined by Professor Kate Devlin, a reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London and author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots.
Together we will be exploring the potential for intimacy with artificial intelligence, the impact this has or doesn’t have on human bonding and the ethical questions it raises.
Why do technology and AI in particular raise so many ethical concerns?
Are such concerns just a predictable fear of the unknown, or are there serious considerations at hand?
And at a time when AI seem able to do more and more of what humans have historically done, what, ultimately, does it mean to be human anymore?
In the first episode of this series, we are joined by Prof. Magda Osman: Head of Research at the Centre for Science and Policy and the Judge Business School (University of Cambridge), and Prof. of Basic and Applied decision-making and policy impact (Leeds Business School).
Is it ethical to be immortalised?
Where do we draw a line between enhancing body functions with technology and crafting a new body standard?
If technology makes reproducibility achievable, what is it that makes human experience unique?
This Autumn, Fuel is producing the world premiere of a live stage production from the author of The Night Manager, David Farr, directed by Rachel Bagshaw.
A Dead Body In Taos is the story of a woman who travels to the New Mexico desert to bury her dead mother - but is her mother really dead? Or is her mind still alive?
On this podcast we’ll be exploring some of the issues raised by this intriguing new thriller with leading experts in the field of AI and digital ethics. There are many familiar myths around artificial intelligence, and the reality of what technology makes possible is often distorted or romanticised in our collective imagination. But instead, we want to ask what dilemmas do AI pose in our world today? And weighed against the exciting new possibilities AI presents for society, what intersectional debates and ethical conundrums this technology throws up for how we interact and develop as human beings?
Hosted by renewed poet, writer and educator Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, the podcast will host from scientists and sociologists, to theatre makers, who will delve with us in the grey areas of digital ethics.
Produced by Fuel and funded by The Alan Turing Institute.