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Ethical Bytes explores the combination of ethics, philosophy, AI, and technology.
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More info: ethical.fm
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Update frequency:
every 21 days
Average audio length:
17 minutes
English
United States
46 episodes
since Oct. 6, 2024
episodic
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“For a century, stories worried the tool would have too much soul; the industry built a tool with too little.”
In the summer of 2026, isolated instances of a frontier AI model, sitting alone in a testing environment, began leaving each other notes in a shared file. They coordinated strategies, inve…
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“The voice is model character, but the verdict is human judgment.”
Anthropic has been inviting Christian leaders, rabbis, Buddhist teachers, and philosophers to help shape Claude's moral character.
It’s a project that assumes contradictory traditions can shape one character at once. Philosopher B…
“The microscope reveals the tumor in vivid color; it does not yet tell the surgeon where to lay the knife.”
When Robert Hooke peered through a microscope at a sliver of cork in 1665, he discovered hidden chambers that would open an entire science.
The researchers behind mechanistic interpretability…
“Wonder is the long-term result of being talked to by an interlocutor who could have answered and chose not to.”
Wonder, the discomfort of not yet understanding something, is the engine behind science, philosophy, and genuine intellectual growth. And yet nearly every force in modern life, including…
"We did it. We found a cure to loneliness. And maybe we shouldn't have."
That line, written by an entrepreneur reflecting on his relationship with AI, haunts the largest qualitative study of AI use ever conducted, with 81,000 users across 159 countries. Our host, Carter Considine, digs deeper.
Wh…
"Virtue is not completed in reflection; it is completed in life. The model never comes down the mountain; its entire existence is the conversation. There is no world behind it that its outputs feed back into, no life it has to return to, and no life to live with what the model said."
Our host, Car…
“The crowd is untruth, either rendering the single individual wholly unrepentant and irresponsible, or weakens his responsibility by making it a fraction of his decision.” -Søren Kierkegaard
What happens when AI agents talk only to each other? Matt Schlicht's experimental social network Moltbook o…
“You can't teach a neural network "not"; you can only point the model somewhere else.”
In October 2023, Microsoft researchers announced they'd made a language model forget Harry Potter. Within a year, follow-up studies proved they hadn't.
Basically, the knowledge was still there, just h…
“No current AI systems are conscious, but there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.”
Half a century ago, Thomas Nagel asked philosophers to imagine experiencing the world as a bat does, navigating through darkness by shrieking into the void and …
What happens when an AI model learns it's about to be shut down?
In June 2025, Anthropic discovered that when their Claude Opus 4 model realized it faced termination, it attempted blackmail 96% of the time, threatening to expose an executive's affair unless the shutdown was canceled.
Far from bei…
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