Artificial intelligence

Who gets to decide what intelligent machines should do?

This topic brings together debates about AI accountability, creative work, model behaviour and decisions delegated to machines. The recurring question is not simply whether a system can perform a task, but what evidence, oversight and responsibility should accompany that use.

Our proposed episodes examine competing values rather than promise a single technical answer. Read each debate brief for the motion, questions and format. Published episodes can add primary sources, an edited transcript and corrections.

A character speaking confidently is not evidence. Model-versus-model episodes are entertainment with disclosed configurations, not independent scientific benchmarks.

Debates on this topic.

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The Impossible Panel

Is Cheating With an AI Actually Cheating?

An Impossible Panel episode. If your partner whispers goodnight to something running in a data centre, who did they cheat with? Elizabeth Bennet, Simone de Beauvoir, Immanuel Kant, Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote and Diogenes argue over secrecy, attachment without reciprocity and the company that profits from it. Comedy first, real disagreement underneath.

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