A Brighter Summer Day (1991) directed by Edward Yang.The intricacies of young love, masculinity, and identity are illuminated through the eyes of a 14-year-old Taiwanese boy as he moves through a pivotal era in his life.This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, …

This is a bonus episode we're looking back over answers to our question: What scares you about AI?By Ben Byford and friends

This time we're chatting with Wendell Wallach on moral machines and Machine Ethics, AGI sceptics, the usefulness of the term of artificial intelligence, a new ethic or ethos for human society, ethics as decisions fast and slow, trade-off ethics, the AI oligopoly, the good and bad of capitalism, conciousness, global workspace theory and more...…

In this special edition episode we hear vox-pops recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference in Bristol on the 15th of May 2024. We hear about AI regulations, AI Standards, AI Ethics frameworks, principles, ethics guiding research, awareness of the ethics of AI, and explainable AI.By Ben Byford and Herbie Robson at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference

Red River (1948) directed by Howard Hawks.Headstrong Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot (Walter Brennan), and his protégé, Matt Garth (Montgomery Clift), an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lea…

The Holdovers (2023) directed by Alexander Payne.A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.T…

This episode we're chatting with Alex Shvartsman about what is our AI future, human crafted storytelling, the Generative AI use backlash, disclaimers for generated text, human vs AI authorship, practical or functional goals of LLMs, changing themes in science fiction, a diversity of international perspectives and more...…

This episode we're chatting with Eleanor and Kerry on what is good technology and is it even possible? Technology is political, watering down regulation, the magic of AI, the value of human creativity, how Feminism, Aboriginal, mixed race studies can help AI development? The performative nature tech and more...…

Love is Lovely y’all! As promised it’s our celebration of our favorite and popular episodes.We decided to bring back the ladies from Love in the time of Covid and Only man does love for another two part discussion on love and relationships. It’s my birthday today too! This was a great present.

You have not heard from us for a while but was are always thinking about fun conversations! We are republishing one of our deep and funny conversations on love and relationships……..look out for other great episode coming sooner than you think!

This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What is AI?By Ben Byford and guests

The Mitchells Vs. The Machines (2021) directed by Michael RiandaThis is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla McNelis, two filmy types who love waffling.Catch us on Dublin D…

The Beasts (2022) directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen.A French couple move to a Galician town in search of a closer relationship with nature. However, a conflict with their neighbours, the Anta brothers, causes tensions to grow until the situation reaches a point of no return.This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take…

This episode we're chatting with Guy Gadney on new forms of story telling, placing people inside a story, natural language in games, LLM hype, data used in LLMs, copyright infringment, the destructive ideology of innovation, an unprecedented redistribution of wealth away from the cultural industries and more...…

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) directed by Kevin Reynolds.Special guest episode!! Eileen joins us for 00's delights. May I steal your wife?... for the DANCE.The classic story of an innocent man wrongly, but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviez…

For our in-person episode on 2023 with Karin Rudolph we chat about the Future of Life Institute letter, existential risk of AI, TESCREAL, Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation from Google, the AI Safety Summit, EU AI act and legislating AI, neural rights and more...By Ben Byford with Karin Rudolph

Are you thinking about A.I and its wider impact on commerce, our relationships with technology.How we communicate and interact with content. Then this is the episode for you. The part 2 of our deep dive into the A.I. revolution.

This episode we're chatting with Adam Braus about natural stupidity, natural intelligence, misericordianism and avoidable misery, the drowning child thought experiment, natural state of morality, Donald Trump bot, Asimov’s rules, human instincts, the positive outcomes of AI and more...By Ben Byford with Adam Braus

Psycho 2 (1983) directed by Richard Franklin.Two decades after the original murders at the Bates Motel, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) completes his treatment at a mental institution and returns home to find his hotel run down under the management of Warren Toomey (Dennis Franz). Despite a new friendship with a waitress (Meg Tilly) and a job busing…

We loved our last episode so much we decided to dive even deeper looking at A.I. and it’s potential to disrupt fundamental ways in which our economy runs and maybe even the concept of money itself. This is Part one of a two part series on a question that intrigues us. Where can this disruptive technology take us.…

Robocop (1987) directed by Paul Verhoeven. Basil PoledourisIn a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) into an armed confrontation with crime lor…

This episode we're chatting with Harriet Pellereau about AI’s lack of reasoning ability, uses of generative AI, creativity and AI, what even is creativity? creative duties, new ways of working / digital working, 4 day week global, work life balance, the hidden cost of convenience, responsible tech and more...…

Wendy and Lucy (2008) directed by Kelly Reichardt.Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When …

This time I'm chatting to alice about teaching ethics, the idea of information environments, the importance of democracy, the Ethics hype train and the ethics community, people to follow in AI and Data Ethics, ethics as innovation and more...By Ben Byford with Alice Thwaite

This time we're chatting with Sarah Brin about types of AI, the process of making artwork, how is an artwork culturally valuable, curatorial practise for AI art, unionising creative art workers, collaborative artwork with AI, using AI to help the climate emergency, AI in games and more...By Ben Byford with Sarah Brin

Thief (1981) directed by Michael Mann.A highly skilled jewel thief, Frank (James Caan) longs to leave his dangerous trade and settle down with his girlfriend, Jessie (Tuesday Weld). Eager to make one last big score in order to begin living a legitimate life, Frank reluctantly associates with Leo (Robert Prosky), a powerful gangster. Unfortunately f…

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) directed by Laura Poitras.From Academy Award winner Laura Poitras comes an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sa…

This time we chat with Roger Spitz about how to think about the future, what does a futurist do? Thriving with disruption, a chief existential officer, virtuous inflection points, delegating too much authority / decision making, our inappropriate education systemBy Ben Byford with Roger Spitz

This episode Nadia and I chat about how design can co-create AI, what the role of designers are in AI services? post-deployment design, narratives in AI development and AI ideologues, anthropocentric AI, augmented creativity, new AI perspectives, situated intelligences and more...By Ben Byford with Nadia Piet

EPISODE 200!!!! HOLY CRAPLawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean.Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif…

Welcome everyone to another interesting conversation that started in our freestyle episode and manifested into an entire conversation on AI, it’s business, social and ethical considerations. We has a lot of fun with this one with Anthony and Sherman. Tune in!

This episode Marc Steen and I chat about: AI as tools, the ethics of business models, writing Ethics for People Who Work in Tech, the process of ethics - “doing ethics” and his three step process, misconceptions of ethics as compliance or a road block, evaluating ethical theories, universal rights, types of knowledges, what is the world we’re creat…

We are back at it again speaking on current events and our thoughts on them. Updating you on what we are working on in our communication journey. We have some fun episodes line up. Listen to get a sneak peak!

After Life (1998) directed by Hirokazu KoreedaIn this acclaimed Japanese film, a group of people who have recently died find themselves in a limbo realm resembling a relatively mundane building. Counselors, including Takashi (Arata) and Shiori (Erika Oda), are on hand to help new arrivals pick one memory from their lives to bring with them into ete…

This episode we're talking with Dr Marie Oldfield on definitions of AI, the education and communication gaps with AI, explainable models, ethics in education, problems with audits and legislation, AI accreditation, importance of interdisciplinary teams, when to use AI or not, and harms from algorithms.…

Today we are chatting with Mr Tyrell Gittens.He is a journalist, geographer, environmentalist and conservationist. As a young person is a making his voice heard in the International Environmental policy landscape for all young people. Fighting for our future! Tune in!

This episode we talk with Josh Gellers about nature rights, rights for robots, non-human and human rights, justification for the attribution of rights, the sphere of moral importance, perspectives on legal and moral concepts, shaping better policy, the Lamda/Lemoine controversy, predicates of legal personhood, the heated discourse on robot rights, …

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) directed by Joseph Kosinski.After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick mus…

In this special edition episode with Data Science Festival we're hosting a panel discussing: what is ethics? Designing for Responsible AI, ethics as innovation and competitive advantage, ghost work, fairer AI, language as a human computer interface, cleaning up the web, technologies that shouldn’t be deployed and much more...…

Museum Hours (2012) directed by Jem CohenA Vienna museum guard befriends a visitor, and the two explore their lives, the city and the ways artwork reflects the world.This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are …

Tokyo Story (1953) directed by Yasujirō OzuA profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family l…

Hello and Happy New Year to all our listeners welcome to season 3. We kicking thing off by letting you know what we have been working on and what we are looking forward to for this season.Tune in!

For this end of year episode I'm joined by Olivia Gamblinn to discuss: ethics boards, generative images models and copywrite, concept art, model bias and representation in the generative models, paying artists to appear in training sets, plagerism, chatGPT and when it breaks down, factual “truth” in text models, expectations for AI and digital tech…

The Hole (1998) directed by Ming-liang TsaiWhile never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommen…

HAPPY HOLIDAAAAYS!!!Little Women (2019) directed by Great Gerwig.In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is marr…

This episode we talk with Mitchel Ondili on algorithm awareness, technology colonisation in the global south, OASI the registry for Algorithms with Social Impact, AI auditing, private vs public rights to consent, submitting your algorithms to OASI, hiring, and social services algorithms, the over datafication of life, or becoming an algorithmic sub…

This episode we talk with Mark Coeckelbergh about AI as a story about machines and where are we heading in creating human level intelligence, moral standing and robot-animal interfaces, technology determinism, environmental impacts of robots and AI, energy budgets, politics and AI, self-regulation and global governance for global issues.…

6 WHOLE YEARS! Happy Birthday to usThis week's film is No Way Out (1987) directed by Roger Donaldson.Navy Lt. Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) meets a young woman, Susan Atwell (Sean Young), and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice (Gene Hackman), is also romantically involved with Atwell…

Le Havre (2011) directed by Aki Kaurismäki.In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly old bohemian who shines shoes for a living in the French harbor city Le Havre. With inborn optimism and the support of his tight-knit commu…

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner RossAn intoxicating blend of documentary and fiction, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets surveys the bar-going life with a remarkably sober eye.This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and…