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Welcome to AITEC Podcast, where we explore the ethical side of AI and emerging tech.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ AI ethics and philosophy • LLM understanding, intentionality, theory of mind • cognitive offloading, deskilling, education • manipulation, surveillance, biometrics • VR/simulated realities, identity • human-technology relations, wellbeing, relationships, medical AI bioethicsThis podcast examines philosophical and ethical questions raised by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Across conversations with philosophers, computer scientists, legal scholars, educators, and bioethicists, it focuses on what current systems can and cannot do, and what it means for humans to rely on them. A recurring theme is whether large language models genuinely understand, form intentions, model other minds, or perform meaningful acts of communication, versus producing fluent output through pattern-based prediction. These discussions often connect technical capabilities to concepts like cognition, intentionality, causation, responsibility, and personhood.
The podcast also explores how AI reshapes human agency and skill. Several episodes consider “cognitive offloading,” deskilling in workplaces and classrooms, and the tension between productivity tools and learning by doing, alongside more optimistic accounts of using AI as a structured aid for reflection, goal-setting, and communication. Another major thread is technology’s influence on identity, autonomy, and lived experience: how biometrics and self-tracking intersect with personal identity; how online choice architecture, nudges, and algorithmic feeds can become forms of manipulation; and how surveillance and data practices create new kinds of individual and societal risk.
Beyond AI, the show extends to virtual reality and immersive media, simulated environments, and the ethics of sexual simulation and human–machine relationships, including grief and intimacy. It also draws on broader philosophical traditions—such as Heidegger, Stoicism, Buddhism, Indigenous science perspectives, and Aztec ethics—to frame questions about meaning, attention, rootedness, and what a thoughtful relationship to technology might require.
