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Episodes

Nov. 26, 2025

Ethics of AI Management of Humans

AI managers are no longer science fiction. They're already making decisions about human workers, and the recent evolution of agentic AI has shifted this from basic data analysis into sophisticated systems capable of reasoning...
Nov. 12, 2025

How Hackers Keep AI Safe: Inside the World of AI Red Teaming

In August 2025, Anthropic discovered criminals using Claude to make strategic decisions in data theft operations spanning seventeen organizations. The AI evaluated financial records, determined ransom amounts reaching half a ...
Oct. 15, 2025

Is AI Slop Bad for Me?

When Meta launched Vibes, an endless feed of AI-generated videos, the response was visceral disgust to the tune of "Gang nobody wants this," according to many users. Yet OpenAI's Sora hit number one on the App Store within fo...
Sept. 18, 2025

Will AI Take People's Jobs? The Choice That Defines Our Future

Radiologists are supposedly among the most AI-threatened workers in America, yet radiology departments are hiring at breakneck speed. Why the paradox? The Mayo Clinic runs over 250 AI models while continuously expanding its w...
Sept. 11, 2025

Does AI Actually Tell Me the Truth?

Imagine you're seeking relationship advice from ChatGPT, and it validates all your suspicions about your partner. That might not necessarily be a good thing since the AI has no way to verify if your partner is actually suspic...
Aug. 20, 2025

Difficult Choices Make Us Human

It’s become a crisis in the modern classroom and workplace: Students now submit AI-generated papers they can't defend in class. Professionals outsource analysis they don't understand. We're creating a generation that appears ...
Aug. 12, 2025

AI Ethics and Green Energy

AI is rapidly reshaping our energy future—but at what cost? Our host, Carter Considine, breaks it down in this episode of Ethical Bytes. As tech companies race to develop ever more powerful AI systems, their energy consumptio...
July 9, 2025

After Cheating: Teaching Critical Thought in the Age of AI

Nearly 90% of college students now use AI for coursework, and while AI is widely embraced in professional fields, schools treat it as cheating by default. This disconnect became clear when Columbia student Roy Lee was suspend...
June 17, 2025

The Next Frontier is Beyond Human Data

AI has come a long way by learning from us. Most modern systems—from chatbots to code generators—were trained on vast amounts of human-created data. These large language and generative models grew smarter by imitating us, fin...
May 21, 2025

The Rise of AI Agents and Why Making Them Ethical Is So Hard

AI is evolving. Fast. What started with tools like ChatGPT—systems that respond to questions—has evolved into something more powerful: AI agents. They don’t just answer questions; they take action. They can plan trips, send e...
May 12, 2025

Good by Design, Not Force: Why the Free Market, Not Regulation, is the Most Effective Path to Ethical Machines

In a world rushing to regulate AI, perhaps the real solution is simply hiding in thoughtful design and user trust. Our host, Carter Considine, breaks it down in this episode of Ethical Bytes. Ethical AI isn’t born from govern...
April 1, 2025

Can AI Reason? And Why It Matters for Ethics

Will AI’s ever-evolving reasoning capabilities ever align with human values? Day by day, AI continues to prove its worth as an integral part of decision-making, content creation, and problem-solving. Because of that, we’re no...
March 19, 2025

AI Personalities: Between Safety, Bias, and Hallucination

AI personalities are shaping the way we engage and interact online. But as the tech evolves, it brings with it complex ethical challenges, including the formation of bias, safety concerns, and even the risk of confusing fanta...
March 5, 2025

Becoming an AI Ethicist, Part II: Inside the Life of an AI Ethicist

What does it take to shape the future of AI while navigating the ethical dilemmas that come with it? Our host, Carter Considine, tackles this question with the second half of our two-part series on becoming an AI ethicist! Be...
Feb. 26, 2025

Becoming an AI Ethicist, Part I: On Choosing Your Education

Are you keen on helping to shape the future of AI from an ethical standpoint? Today, you’ll discover what it takes to become an AI ethicist and steer this ever-evolving tech toward a responsible tomorrow! Becoming an AI ethic...
Feb. 19, 2025

Can AI Influencers be Ethical?

With AI influencers on the rise in the world of social media, it’s time to discuss the moral quandaries that they naturally come with, including the question of who should be held accountable for ethical breaches in their use...
Feb. 5, 2025

Is AI Antithetical to Human Nature? (pt 2)

When all is said and done, does AI truly enhance our humanity, or does it undermine it? In this second part of the two-part series, our host, Carter Considine, draws on ancient Greek philosophy to determine whether AI can coe...
Jan. 31, 2025

Is AI Antithetical to Human Nature? (pt 1)

When all is said and done, does AI truly enhance our humanity, or does it undermine it? In this episode, our host, Carter Considine, draws on ancient Greek philosophy to determine whether AI can coexist with or disrupt the es...
Jan. 25, 2025

The Price of Precision: Data Labeling and the Debate Over ‘Digital Sweatshops’

As AI continues to evolve, it’s becoming more imperative than ever to settle one of the biggest issues that coincides with–and in fact contributes to –AI development: the question of the labor behind AI. Our host Carter Consi...
Jan. 8, 2025

The Virtual Self in the Age of Generative AI

The merging of man and machine is an idea that has been explored in countless sci-fi stories over the decades. Today, our host Carter Considine explores the emerging concept of digital twins, also known as virtual selves, and...
Jan. 1, 2025

Building Ethical Values into AI

What are the biggest obstacles in the way of incorporating ethical values into AI? OpenAI has funded a $1 million research project at Duke University, focusing on AI’s role in predicting moral judgments in complex scenarios a...
Dec. 18, 2024

Beyond Bias: The Future of AI Ethics in a Post-Woke World

What does the rise and fall of "wokeness" mean for AI ethics and in shaping the future of AI technology? Our host, Carter Considine explores the historical roots of AI ethics with a focus on bias in machine learning algorithm...
Dec. 4, 2024

How AI Can Ethically Fight World Hunger

The speed and scalability of AI allow it to radically transform farming practices to help combat world hunger. But can it do all this while navigating critical ethical issues, specifically around those communities who make a ...
Nov. 23, 2024

Is it Dangerous to Befriend an AI Companion?

Can AI companions contribute to mental health in an increasingly isolated world? Or will it only end up doing more harm than good? Our host, Carter Considine, looks into it in this episode of Ethical Bytes. The tragic death o...