Episodios

  • What's Happening with the EU's AI Act?
    Feb 22 2024

    In this episode, we delve into the evolving landscape of AI regulation as we unravel the intricacies of the European Union's groundbreaking AI Act. Released as a comprehensive regulatory framework, the EU's AI Act is set to shape the future of AI development, deployment, and governance across the member states and the world.

    Join us as we explore the key provisions of the AI Act, examining its impact on both businesses and individuals. We'll discuss the high-risk AI applications that will face stringent regulations, the requirements for transparency and human oversight, and the implications for fostering innovation while ensuring ethical AI practices.


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  • The Role of Humans in the Future of AI with Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos
    Jan 24 2024

    This week we were joined by the incredible Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos. Lydia is a multifaceted expert who has worked with the United Nations, NATO, US Special Operations, US Secret Service, IEEE, the European Commission, management consultancies, industry, academia and foreign governments. And havs experience working in US, Europe, Middle East and East Asia. Lydia's expertise range across AI, AI Ethics, Cyber Security, Art, Fashion, Health & more!


    In this episode we explore topics ranging from the role of humans in the future of AI, the value humans offer vs AI and the environmental impact of AI.

    In the episode we reference Lydia's recent talk on the Corporate Social Responsibility of AI a 15 min talk that we highly recommend people watch where Lydia looks at some of the United Nations SDG's and what they mean.

    • The Corporate Social Responsibility of Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV1E4XiEkY
    • Presentation:https://www.slideshare.net/lkcyber/the-corporate-social-responsibility-of-artificial-intelligence?from_search=4

    More of Lydia's work -

    • EmpoweringWorkwear: https://www.empoweringworkwear.com
    • Project Nof1 Interview Series: https://www.projectnof1.com
    • Lydia's Portfolio: https://www.lkcyber.com
    • Lydia's Consultancy:  https://abundance.studio 


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    34 m
  • Exploring AI Governance with Lofred Madzou
    Jan 10 2024

    Happy New Year! We back in 2024 and what a year 2023 was for tech..

    In this episode, we delve into the fascinating and increasingly crucial realm of AI governance. As AI continues to evolve, questions of ethics, accountability, and regulation become paramount. Join us as we explore the challenges and opportunities surrounding AI governance, featuring this weeks special expert guest Lofred Madzou. From the ethical considerations of autonomous systems to the role of policymakers in shaping AI policies, we look at the complex landscape of governing AI.


    Lofred is the Director of Strategy at Truera – an AI Quality platform to explain, test, debug and monitor machine learning models, leading to higher quality and trustworthiness. Outside his day job, he is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) where he mostly focuses on the governance of AI systems through audit processes. Before Joining Truera, he was an AI Lead at the World Economic Forum where he supported global companies, across industries and jurisdictions, in their implementation of responsible AI processes as well as advised various EU and Asia-Pacific governments on AI regulation. Previously, he was a policy officer at the French Digital Council, where he advised the French Government on AI policy. Most notably, he co-drafted the French AI Strategy.

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  • The Wall of ChatGPT: Tackling Risks & Safety.. with Victoria Vassileva
    Jun 15 2023

    This week we were joined by Victoria Vassileva who is the Sales Director at Arthur. In this episode we get into Victoria's experience on working with organisations across sectors to combat ethical challenges and risks and more specifically how at Arthur they are solving this with regards to large language models (LLMS). We also approach the topic of the media hype surrounding AI being sentient and why this takes attention away from the real risks and ethical issues that are happening today.


    Victoria's bio & contact info:

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvassileva/

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/hellovictoriav?lang=en-GB

    Victoria Vassileva (she/her) is the Sales Director at Arthur. She has spent over a dozen years in and around data, starting as an analyst programming in SAS before transitioning to the GTM side. She now works to help complex organizations bring operational maturity and Responsible and Trustworthy practices to AI/ML initiatives across industries. At Arthur, Victoria focuses primarily on partnering with F100 enterprises to bring comprehensive performance management and proactive risk reduction and mitigation across their entire AI production stack. She is deeply motivated by the opportunity to shift industry practices to a "front-end ethics" approach to place equity and fairness considerations at the forefront of machine learning and automation projects. She holds degrees in Mathematics and French from the University of Texas at Austin.

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  • 'Sex-For-Sale': Ethical Responsibility of Sex for Sale Websites with Ruth Ikwu
    May 18 2023

    This week, we welcome the innovative Ruth Ikwu, an AI Ethicist and MLOps Engineer with a solid foundation in Computer Science. As a Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Research of Europe, Ruth delves into AI Security, Ethics and Trust, playing a role in crafting innovative and reliable AI solutions for cyberspace safety. In this episode, she educates us on the evolving landscape of online sex work, discussing how platforms like AdultWork, OnlyFans and PornHub inadvertently facilitate sex trafficking. This is a heavy topic and contains a lot of distressing information about sex trafficking, Ruth's work is extremely important in bringing forward accountability.


    To learn more about Ruth's work on identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market -

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12117-021-09431-0

    Connect with Ruth -

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-eneyi-i-83a699118/

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  • How to Tackle Hate Speech Online with Paul Röttger
    May 4 2023

    In this episode we are joined by Paul Röttger who is CTO & Co-Founder at Rewire and completing his PHD at Oxford University in NLP. Paul chats to us about the challenges of tackling hate speech online and why he decided to pursue this challenge in his PHD as well as how he started Rewire. More recently, Paul was part of an expert team that were hired by OpenAI to 'break' ChatGPT4 called the 'red team', he explains what this involved and how it aimed to solve some of the dangers of ChatGPT4.


    If you want to connect with Paul -

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/paul_rottger?lang=en

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-rottger/


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    43 m
  • How Do We Value AI Art? The Philosopher's Takeover with Alba Curry & Maddy Page
    Apr 24 2023

    The Philosophers Takeover!! This is the first in a new monthly series led by Alba Curry who is a Philosophy Professor at the University of Leeds. Alba will be joining us (as well as other special guests of her choice) once a month to do a philosophical deep dive of different episodes we have covered throughout the series. Our special guest this week is Maddy Page who is a PHD student at the University of Leeds focusing on the Philosophy of Art. In this episode Maddy covers the ontology of artwork and why its important. Join us as we deep dive into the world of AI generated art and its value! Can AI be considered as an artist or does art need to be created by a human? Why do we value art based on who the artist is and what do we define as art?


    Alba - https://www.linkedin.com/in/albacurry/

    Maddy - twitter @madeleinesjpage

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    52 m
  • AI News & Sentient Robots..
    Apr 13 2023

    This weeks episode Oriana and Amanda discuss Sentient Robots and AI News, where we explore the latest news in AI including the famous 'Letter' signed by Elon Musk.

    As AI technology advances, we are witnessing the emergence of 'sentient robots' - machines that are claimed to be experiencing emotions, developing personalities, and even exhibiting creativity. In this podcast, we explore sentient robotics and examine their potential impact on society, culture, and the economy.

    So whether you're a technology enthusiast, industry professional, or just curious about the future of robotics and AI, tune in to the Sentient Robots and AI News episode for thought-provoking discussions and insights into the world of sentient machines.


    (*)This description was written using chatGPT and some human editing skills. 



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    37 m