The podcast discusses the importance of understanding ethical concepts in AI and explores terms like malicious AI, adversarial attacks, and deep fakes. It highlights various ways AI can be misused, including AI impersonation, adversarial attacks on machine learning systems, surveillance evasion, and deep fakes. The risks and consequences of malicious AI, particularly deepfakes, are explored, as well as the impact of deep fakes on trust and the challenge of differentiating real and fake news.