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Why Values are Always Apt for Technological Disruption

29 Nov 2024

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Are Seatbelt Mandates Unduly Paternalistic?

26 Nov 2024

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Generative AI and the Future of Equality Norms

30 Jul 2024

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The Ethics of Personalised Digital Duplicates: A Minimally Viable Permissibility Principle

15 Jul 2024

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Mind the Anticipatory Gap: Genome Editing, Value Change and Governance

10 Jul 2024

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The Structure of Academic Writing: Lessons from John McPhee

2 Jul 2024

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Automation, Utopia and Everything In Between

18 Apr 2024

I've been quiet for a while. I know. But here's something to fill the gap: an interview I did for the *Network Capital Podcast* hosted by Utkarsh Amitabh. It covers a bit of everything: who I am; why

Do Counterfeit Digital People Threaten the Cognitive Elite?

26 Jan 2024

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Technology and the Dematerialisation of Sex

9 Jan 2024

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What is Equality of Opportunity? A Framework for Analysis

8 Jan 2024

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Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed

21 Dec 2023

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TITE 10 - Bonus Episode: Audience Q and A

20 Dec 2023

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TITE 9 - Human-Technology Futures

20 Dec 2023

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TITE 8 - Machines as Colleagues, Friends and Lovers

20 Dec 2023

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TITE 7 - Can Machines be Moral Patients?

19 Dec 2023

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TITE 6 - Moral Agency in Machines

19 Dec 2023

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TITE 5 - Technology and Responsibility Gaps

19 Dec 2023

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TITE 4 - Behaviour Change and Control

19 Dec 2023

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TITE 3 - Value Alignment and the Control Problem

10 Oct 2023

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TITE 2: The Methods of Technology Ethics

29 Sep 2023

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New Podcast Series - 'This is Technology Ethics'

25 Sep 2023

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The Ethics of Academia (Podcast Series)

9 Jun 2023

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110 - Can we pause AI Development? Evidence from the history of technological restraint

6 Jun 2023

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Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview

1 Jun 2023

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109 - How Can We Align Language Models like GPT with Human Values?

30 May 2023

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