Things hid and barr'd from common sense
About a year ago, I put together a series of podcasts called 'The Ethics of Academia'. The purpose of the podcast was to explore the ethical dilemmas facing academics in their work as researchers, teachers and (to a slightly lesser extent) administrators/leaders. Here are the links to all 12 episodes, along with brief descriptions of their content. You can subscribe/download the full set of episodes on Apple or Spotify or Amazon or Google a range of other services .
In this episode, I chat to Matthijs Maas about pausing AI development. Matthijs is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Legal Priorities Project and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. In our conversation, we focus on the possibility of slowing down or limiting the development of technology. Many people are sceptical of this possibility but Matthijs has been doing some extensive research of historical case studies of, apparently successfu