S02E02| Navigating the ethical landscape in AI and Tech with Prof. Christoph Lütge

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Welcome to season 2 of Info Under the Radar. New topics, new guests with your familiar hosts. In the second episode of this new season, we are talking about Ethics in the forever growing field of Technology. We talked about various aspects of it from a philosophical, pragmatic and scientific standpoint. Prof. Christoph Lütge is in a special position since he is the head of an ethics institute that is funded by Facebook, so we had to discuss that. We also talked about AI and ethics, Ethics and Politics and many more genres within the subject umbrella. Timestamps (07:25) How does Prof. Lütge define Ethics? (10:44) What are your ethical guiding principles when you're in dilemma? (13:08) Is there diff between Corporate and Academic Ethics? (21:39) How does Prof. Lütge navigates the Ethics Research Arena while being funded by Facebook? (30:07) Is it even Ethical to make a Fully Autonomous Vehicle? (37:00) As a regular person, how NOT to be afraid of AI? (44:20) Racial Bias in AI (47:26) Can we have Smart Features in our apps/devices without sharing our personal data? (51:34) Do we put more expectations on AI systems as compared to humans? (54:41) AI and future of politics (62:19) Ethics or Tech, which one should come first? Reach out to Prof. Christoph Lütge on his Twitter: @chluetge (https://twitter.com/chluetge) Link to Prof Lütge's Home page - https://www.gov.tum.de/en/wirtschaftsethik/team/luetge/ Prof. Lütge's Latest Book: An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on twitter: Devendra: & Vishwajeet: @vishwajeets3 Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE