David Martens is a professor of data science in the department of engineering management at the University of Antwerp, and he is the author of Data Science Ethics: Concepts, Techniques, and Cautionary Tales.

Some of the topics we discuss are the relationship between data science and artificial intelligence, ethical concerns during the data collection process, the European law known as the General Data Protection Regulation, the problem of re-identification of individuals if data that’s made public isn’t properly anonymized, and the dangers of launching powerful AI models for use by the wider public without any oversight—among many other topics. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

Carlos Montemayor is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many articles and books, including his 2023 work The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Alignment. 

Some of the topics we discuss are the centrality of attention when it comes to intelligence, the possibility of being an intelligent agent without consciousness, the threats that AI poses to humans, and the notion of a collective artificial intelligence, among many other topics. We hope you enjoy the conversation. 

Thomas Telving has an MA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of several articles on the ethics of artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction. And he is the author of the recent book Killing Sophia: Consciousness, Empathy, and Reason in the Age of Intelligent Robots. 

Some of the topics we discuss are human empathy, the high likelihood that humans will eventually feel empathy for humanoid robots, Thomas’ thought-experiment regarding how humans would respond if given an order to destroy a highly-realistic humanoid robot, the prospect of granting robots rights, and many other topics. We hope you enjoy the conversation.

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