Apparatus

Echo Games: Gender and Culture Representation (S1, E1)

Season 1 delves into the relationship between games and society, featuring two episodes.
Episode 1: Daniela explores the topic of gender and culture representation in games with three experts: A.M. Darke, Mer Grazzini and Dr Phoenix Perry.
Sponsor: Echo Games CIC
 

Echo Games: Accessibility (S1, E2)

Season 1 delves into the relationship between games and society, featuring two episodes.
Episode 2: Daniela explores the topic of accessibility in games with experts Simon Hayhoe and Michael Heron.
Sponsor: Echo Games CIC

AI & Society: Artificial Surrealism and Authors' Rights

In this episode, I discuss AI, authors' rights, and the concept of Artificial Surrealism with Artha Dermawan, a PhD candidate at the University of Lapland in Finland.
Acknowledgements: Artha's research is funded by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany.
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Cited work
Dermawan, A. (2024). 'Artificial Surrealism and Authors' Rights'. Santander Art and Culture Law Review (Forthcoming in 2025) and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Research Paper. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4874322 
Elon Magazine
Longpre, S. et al. (2024) 'The Data Provenance Initiative'. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.16787 
Klaus Goldhammer, et al. (2023) ‘AI and Music', a Goldmedia Report Commissioned by GEMA and Sacem (p. 88). Market Development of AI in the Music Sector and Impact on Music Authors and Creators in Germany and France.
The Design and Artists Copyright Society - DACS (2024) ‘Artificial Intelligence and Artists’ Work (A Survey of Artists on AI)’ (pp. 5-29).
The paper from Nature you cited at the beginning: Longpre, S. et al. (2024) 'A Large-Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing and Attribution in AI' (Nature Machine Intelligence). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.16787
Music opera performance using AI

AI & Society: Responsible AI and Representation

In this episode, I discuss with Dr. Alan Chamberlain how AI can be developed and used responsibly in artistic projects.
Alan is a musician, Principal Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, and Director of the Responsible AI, Research and Representation Network (R3 Network).
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Alan’s work
Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/17evLGW5vKG198gF2ZfB6x
Cat royale https://www.blasttheory.co.uk/catroyale
Steven David Benford, Clara Mancini, Alan Chamberlain, Eike Schneiders, Simon D Castle-Green, Joel E Fischer, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Guido Salimbeni, Victor Zhi Heung Ngo, Pepita Barnard, Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, and Ju Row Farr. 2024. Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 626, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641994
 
Eike Schneiders, Steve Benford, Alan Chamberlain, Clara Mancini, Simon Castle-Green, Victor Ngo, Ju Row Farr, Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, and Joel Fischer. 2024. Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 593, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642115 
 
Acknowledgements: Alan’s work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/V00784X/1] UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub (The TAS RRI II project), [grant number EP/G065802/1] Horizon: Digital Economy Hub at the University of Nottingham (HoRRIzon III), and [grant number EP/Y009800/1] AI UK: Creating an International Ecosystem for Responsible AI Research and Innovation (RAI UK), (RAKE Responsible Innovation Advantage in Knowledge Exchange).

AI & Society: Does AI Need More Philosophers?

Can we collaborate with AI?
Can AI be human?
Why do we need more philosophers?
These are a few of the ethical and philosophical questions I discuss in this podcast with Joanna Bryson, Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin.
Professor Joanna Bryson advises governments, corporations, and other agencies globally, particularly on AI policy. She co-authored the first national-level AI ethics policy, the UK's 2011 Principles of Robotics, and has contributed to efforts by numerous organizations, including the OECD, EU, UN, OSCE, Red Cross, and Google, among others. In June 2020, she was one of nine experts nominated by Germany to the founding cohort of experts for the Global Partnership on AI.
Cited work:
Evans, Katie D.; Robbins, Scott A. & Bryson, Joanna J. (forthcoming). Do We Collaborate With What We Design? Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12682
 

AI & Society: Sex and the Machines

The sex robots industry is booming. But what is a sex robot? What does it look like? And would you buy one? If so, why? And which type?
In this podcast, I talk with Heather Parry, author of "Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism". Together, we discuss the hot topic of sex robots, including their social and ethical implications.
 

AI & Society: AI vs. Artists

In this podcast, I discuss the complicated relationship between AI and Artists with Dr Anna Maria Piskopani, a Research Fellow in IT Law at Horizon Institute of Digital Economy at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on human rights issues raised by emerging technologies.
Together, we explore how AI is transforming artistic creation, sparking innovation, and raising critical legal and ethical questions. From enhancing creativity to concerns about privacy and intellectual property, this episode uncovers the multifaceted impact of AI on the art world. 
Cited work:
Anna Maria Piskopani, Alan Chamberlain, and Carolyn Ten Holter. 2023. Responsible AI and the Arts: The Ethical and Legal Implications of AI in the Arts and Creative Industries. In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 48, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597528 
This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/V00784X/1] UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub (The TAS RRI II project), [grant number EP/G065802/1] Horizon: Digital Economy Hub at the University of Nottingham (HoRRIzon III)