Dr Daniel Glaser delves into the murky world of Artificial Intelligence and asks whether true intelligence can exist without an understanding of morality

In this episode, Kate and Laura talk about how and why to protect your users from each other while they slowly lose what little faith they still had in humanity. Happy New Year. Drink pairing: Bottomless Mimosas. Or topless. Whatever. You do you.

We talk to Amber Case, cyborg anthropologist and UX designer. We chat about the ideas expressed in Amber’s popular TED talk “We are all cyborgs now” before turning our attention to the notion of calm technology. More and more things are demanding more and more of our attention. Everything beeps, flashes, vibrates or notifies. With...

Podcast interview with Cyd Harrell. We talk to Cyd about researching on the fly and preparing yourself for research sessions in general.

On April 9, 2017, United Airlines flight 3411 was preparing to take off from Chicago when flight attendants discovered the plane was overbooked. They tried to get volunteers to give up their seats with promises of travel vouchers and hotel accommodations, but not enough people were willing to get off the flight. So United ended up

Now that algorithms are everywhere, helping us to both run and make sense of the world, a strange question has emerged among artificial intelligence researchers: When is it ok to predict the future…

Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Claire Boyle, the managing editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about a special nonfiction issue the two organizations teamed up to produce, “The End of Trust.”In this episode: Why the EFF and McSweeney’s decided to work together; have consumers given up on having privacy?; why “Facebook doesn’t really have users or customers, they have hostages”; the current copyright battles in Europe; why the ability of AI to play chess says little about the usefulness of AI in general; surve...

We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, the link between online drug markets and America’s opioid crisis.

The “Like” button was a huge triumph for Facebook, or was it? Now more than ever we’re all wondering if our traditional definition of “good” design is actually in our best interests. In this episode, we take a look at the intersection of ethics and design.

The marshmallow test is one of the most well-known studies in all of psychology, but a new replication suggests we’ve been learning the wrong lesson from its findings for decades. — Show Notes at: http://youarenotsosmart.com — — This episode’s notes: https://goo.gl/hDjTVJ — — Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart — SPONSORS • The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Squarespace: https://www.squarespace.com Offer code: SOSMART • Lightstream: http://lightstream.com/notsosmart

The O’Reilly Radar Podcast: AI on the hype curve, imagining nurturing technology, and gaps in the AI conversation.

We’ve got Robyn Kanner and Mike Monteiro on the show to talk about ethics in design. When and, more importantly, how should you stand up to a manager when they tell you to design something in…