Where have you been Nick?! Come visit soon
05.10.2025 12:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@benbyford.com.bsky.social
Game designer, AI ethicist, teacher, concerned environmentalist - www.benbyford.com
Where have you been Nick?! Come visit soon
05.10.2025 12:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0T-shirt for ya: rawpaw.ink/products/inf...
29.09.2025 11:19 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Media is dead and we killed it - what if it is unclear whether anything is AI or not, intended to corrode trust, sway your opinion, distract or keep you attention? That is where weβre at
29.09.2025 10:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ep.103 What excites you about AI?
www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/what...
Tower Defence games I love www.tandc.games/news/my-favo...
12.09.2025 11:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Help take do capitalism β¦ though Iβm not sure that qualifies as a job β¦
09.09.2025 14:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wonder what weβll do with all these be AI data centres when we donβt need them anymore π€
29.08.2025 20:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide β and then kept bringing it back up in later βconversations."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Our new report on how we can shape the AI that gets developed and how it came be used, covered here www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
27.08.2025 07:03 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Great outlook from Demis. Not seen many interesting things on ethics from deepmind, but they seem to have their heart and tech in a good place (I love genetics algorithms!) youtu.be/-HzgcbRXUK8?...
17.08.2025 14:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 π
The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: September 28th
More info π
grants.draknek.org
Stick a coal fired power station there instead?? π€ͺ
04.08.2025 18:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ha amazing! Hadnβt seen it since itβs been out. The great peeps at Sassy Chaps made it. I helped for a couple of months with some UI programming and animation :) . AI can only take our jobs if we want to live in a completely different economyβ¦ check out the podcast ;)
02.08.2025 21:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Β£50 second hand percifica, still good
31.07.2025 07:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Episode 102 now live! Adir Ben-Yehuda & I chat aboutβAI automation for web development, Human Machine Interfaces, allowing an LLM to optimism itself, job displacement, vibe coding, Grok's MechaHitler, the ethics and guard rails of LLMs and moreβ¦ www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/auto...
30.07.2025 17:48 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0When this is over these people will reflect on what it means to be a human and be in the worldβ¦ maybe even have families and look at the sky sometime in awe
24.07.2025 12:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Does have a little bit of the book burning vibe to itβ¦ (trying but failing not to invoke WWII propaganda machine)β¦
24.07.2025 12:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0this is a shocking result - fake hope from LLMs on climate solutions archive.is/8sYNv
11.07.2025 09:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ep.101 out! special live panel at AI Ethics, Risks & Safety Conference 2025. We chat: what is AI, predictions for 5 years, incoming wave of fraud, AI education, copyright, uncertainty of regulation, sovereign AI capabilities, impact on creative industries www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/ai-e...
24.06.2025 21:44 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I said the 2025 would be the year of AI agents in my Jan episode of @machine-ethics.net however I would like to state that it is the year of AI induced disinformation, helped by progress in video models and AI agents
22.06.2025 20:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT canβt remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesnβt suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Is AI alignment just Machine Ethics but from a technical point of view?
14.06.2025 13:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We also played Aspens, Timber Town, Companion Quest and some other I canβt remember
07.06.2025 16:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Played a lot of cool games at UKGE week ago (as well as play testing my new card game to some lovely people): re recommend checking out this simple Ono style game www.kickstarter.com/projects/dri... which is just ending on kickstarter
07.06.2025 16:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0MCP for LLM agents: hot take, feels like we're doing it wrong www.youtube.com/watch?v=eur8... here their look at apis & data, feels like traditional app dev to me! here we have lots of looping around till we get a result, feels like a waste of literal energy when we already know how to do this...
04.06.2025 11:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sugar coating Ilm blackmail is irresponsible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
31.05.2025 07:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Let us know if your need a switch port doing ;)
24.05.2025 11:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What was omitted in that book was that most jobs are bullshit, or unnecessary
24.05.2025 10:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0