Scot Pansing delivers the keynote for the 2025 Faculty Student Engagement and Assessment Conference.

In this episode I discuss the world of AI Ethics and Responsible AI, and ethics in general, with Reid Blackman, founder and CEO of Virtue, an AI ethical risk consultancy.  Reid is also the author of the book "Ethical Machines" and hosts a podcast by the same name.

Virtue designs Responsible AI programs, and their clients include Amazon, Etsy, Kraft Heinz, Merck, US Bank, Nationwide, and more. Reid’s written work has appeared in The Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. Prior to founding Virtue, Reid was a professor of philosophy at Colgate University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

https://www.reidblackman.com/

https://reidblackman.substack.com/

https://www.ethicalmachinespodcast.com/

https://www.virtueconsultants.com/

In this edition of AI Quick Bits, I chat with Oz Krakowski, Chief Business Development Officer at Deepdub. We discuss the business of overdubbing for media and entertainment, and how generative AI is affecting these workflows.

This is also the first video edition of AI Quick Bits, so if you would like to watch as well as listen, head over to https://www.youtube.com/@ScotPansing

Deepdub: https://deepdub.ai

In this episode I chat with Scott Michaels, Chief Product Officer at Apply Digital.  Scott and I get into the details of what sorts of challenges and opportunities businesses are experiencing when incorporating generative AI into their products and workflows.

Apply Digital: https://www.applydigital.com

Google Cloud Next: Accelerate creative media content with gen AI (KraftHeinz Tastemaker at 22:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MZ6kw933c

Doomed to fail? Most AI projects flop within 12 months, with billions of dollars being wasted: https://www.techradar.com/pro/over-80-of-ai-projects-fail-wasting-billions-of-dollars

Optimizing for AI Search: https://www.applydigital.com/insights/learn/optimizing-for-ai-search/

MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/mcp-the-new-usb-c-for-ai-thats-bringing-fierce-rivals-together/

In this episode I speak with Rong Yan, Chief Technology Officer of HeyGen.

HeyGen: https://www.heygen.com 

In this episode I speak with Louis Rosenberg, CEO & Chief Scientist of Unanimous AI.  Louis is also the co-author of the newly released book Our Next Reality, and many scientific papers, including "The Manipulation Problem: Conversational AI as a Threat to Epistemic Agency."

Unanimous AI: https://unanimous.ai/ 

Our Next Reality: https://ournextreality.com/ 

The Manipulation Problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11748 

The AI Dilemma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSi4d75gFZQ 

Privacy Lost: https://www.privacylost.org/ 

Arrival Mind: https://www.outlandpublishing.com/arrival-mind

Friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1hoEhfk4 

"AI Quick Bits" art: Jamillah Knowles / Better Images of AI / Data People / CC-BY 4.0

In this episode I have a fascinating conversation with Nell Watson, long standing maven in AI Philosophy, Safety, and Ethics, and author of the newly released book Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI.

Nell's website: https://www.nellwatson.com/

Taming the Machine: https://tamingthemachine.com/

Safer Agentic AI Foundations: https://www.nellwatson.com/agentic

Nell's video "Machines for Moral Enlightenment": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrZMapO1mEE

"Sunny" on Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/sunny/umc.cmc.7c5t9dde8dxoaxwyl5rkuw38p

"AI Quick Bits" art: Jamillah Knowles / Better Images of AI / Data People / CC-BY 4.0

In this episode I have a conversation with Johan Brandstedt, Business and Concept Development at HiQ, an IT Services and Consulting firm in Stockholm, Sweden.  But you may know Johan like I know him, as a persistent critic of generative artificial intelligence in its current and common form.  There's almost no AI post that I see where he does not comment, and he appears to relish debate on many facets of the ecosystem.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johan-cedmar-brandstedt-a77b311/

In this episode I have a conversation with Nick Martin, Co-Founder of Direqt, a company that provides chatbot services to many of the world's top publishers.

Direqt: https://www.direqt.ai

In this episode I have a conversation with Sarah Fairweather, Senior Program Manager of Ethics at WellSaid Labs, an AI voice generation platform that turns text into voiceovers.

WellSaid Labs: https://wellsaidlabs.com