Exploring the Morality of Microbial Mortality

In episode 26 of The AI Fix, an AI does surgery on pork chops, holographic Jesus wants your consent to use cookies, Mark opens the pod bay doors, our hosts discover OpenAI's couch potato health coach, and Graham finds a robot made of drain pipes.

Graham pits Mark against an AI in a morality quiz that asks “would you kill sentient robots?”, and “are lobsters more delicious than cats?”, while a surprisingly useful answer from ChatGPT leads Mark on a quest for world peace.

Episode links:

• OpenAI’s AI health coach is still out of shape.
• Church installs AI-powered Jesus.
• An AI that learned to do surgery by watching videos is ready to operate on humans.
• Meet Alice, the terrifying AI robot teaching kids in India.
• Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative AI.
• Anti-deepfake declaration may have been written by AI.
• Mens rea.
• Europe's Insane History of Putting Animals on Trial and Executing Them.
• Therac-25.
• Boeing 737 MAX groundings.
• Did HAL commit murder?
• Absurd Trolley Problems.
• Predicting conflict – a year in advance.
• Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS).
• GDELT project.

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