Interviews

If AI is becoming more autonomous — acting in markets, executing contracts, and mimicking human emotion — do we need to start talking about AI Rights? In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Miranda Mowbray, a mathematician turned AI ethicist at the University of Bristol. She took us on a journey from cybersecurity to the legal rights of rivers, dismantling the “consciousness" hype to reveal the practical legal realities we actually need to worry about.

AI is reshaping the way we work, live, and interact at a pace not seen since the deployment of the printing press six centuries ago. As AI algorithms become deeply embedded in daily life — from filtering your social feeds and navigating maps to determining loan approvals and hiring decisions — ensuring these systems align with core ethical principles is now a crucial societal priority.

This episode features an interview with Dr Jennifer Fleming, the coordinator of the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) lead. AlphaFold is a program that predicts the structure of proteins. It represents such a major breakthrough that it’s been said to usher in a whole new era of biology.

How AI Understands Your DNA, featuring an interview with Professor Ewan Birney. Prof Birney is Interim Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Non-Executive Director of Genomics England, and played a pivotal role in the Human Genome Project.

In this episode, we tackle a question that's becoming increasingly relevant in the world of AI: are we running out of data?

In this episode, we delved into a critical question: can AI help fix the UK's National Health Service (NHS)?