Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast features interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers, and engineers discussing autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the societal impacts of technology.
AI Fictions with Alex Shvartsman
In this episode, we chat with Alex Shvartsman about the future of AI, human-created storytelling, the backlash against generative AI, disclaimers for AI-generated text, human versus AI authorship, practical or functional goals of large language models (LLMs), evolving themes in science fiction, diverse international perspectives, and more.
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Alex Shvartsman resides in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of the fantasy novels Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019). Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and more. He has won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and has been a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.
His translations from Russian have appeared in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Analog, Asimov’s, and more. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series.
About The Machine Ethics Podcast
This podcast was created and is hosted by Ben Byford and collaborators. Initially, the podcast and other content were developed to expand Ben’s growing interest in AI and its associated ethics. Over the years, the podcast has become a platform for discussing and disseminating important ideas, not only about AI but also about technological ethics in general. As the interviews progress, they often touch on current events, the future of work, environmental issues, and more. While the core focus remains on AI and AI ethics, we publish broader content that we hope will be useful to the general public and practitioners alike.
The podcast aims to promote debate on technology and society and to encourage the development of technologies (especially decision-making algorithms) that uphold human ideals.
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