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.

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.

For 20 episodes, we’ve explored the fascinating world of AI, but today, we’re diving into an area that’s not just important but rapidly developing: the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biology.