Should AI be trusted with Moral decisions? | Cambridge & Oxford Philosophers Discuss

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this second part of our Premier Unbelievable? schools debate with Aylesbury Youth or Christ, host Andy Kind is joined once again by philosophers Dr Amna Whiston (Oxford University) and Dr Alex Carter (Cambridge University) to explore the ethical dilemmas raised by artificial intelligence. What happens when machines are asked to make moral decisions? Can AI ever be truly responsible - or feel pain? What are the risks of outsourcing human judgment to code? And is a "happy dystopia" ruled by AI just around the corner? Together, they unpack issues like the trolley problem, privacy, intellectual property, moral intuition, and the dehumanising effects of the “race to the middle.” This thought-provoking conversation asks not just what AI can do, but what it might undo in human society. 🎧 Subscribe now and join the conversation about the future of ethics in an age of machines. 👉 Support thought-provoking conversations and help keep the show going at www.premierunbelievable.com/geolink/donate💡 🎧 Never miss an episode! Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast a www.premier.plus/unbelievable 🎙️ 🔗 Get bonus content, updates, fascinating articles, and early access to new episodes - absolutely free! Join now at www.premierunbelievable.com 📢 Social Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unbelievablefe Facebook: / https://facebook.com/premierunbelievable Instagram: / https://instagram.com/premierunbelievable Tik Tok: / https://tiktok.com/@premier.unbelievable

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0:32.0	Hello, welcome back to Unbelievable for another one of our school's debates.
0:36.9	I'm your host, Andy Kind, and today we're
0:39.3	talking about AI, a popular topic at the moment, and how it relates to ethics. I've been
0:45.3	joined again by, on my left, Dr. Alex Carter from Cambridge University, and on my right, Dr.
0:52.7	Amna Wiston from Oxford University. Welcome to you both.
0:56.5	Thank you. Andy. Yeah, hi. Yes, hi. Yeah, we've spoken before on AI, specifically regarding
1:02.7	creativity. We're looking at ethics today. But Anna, let's start with you. Can you just for people who
1:08.8	haven't tuned into unbelievable before and some people in the room,
1:12.6	can you give an idea of what AI is? What do we mean and what don't we mean by AI?
1:20.6	From a philosophical perspective, what do we mean by artificial intelligence, as the word says?
1:28.3	It's artificial.
1:35.7	So we use the term intelligence just to describe something that is similar to human intelligence, but it has some common denominator's factors, similar, but essentially it doesn't have
1:42.8	human capacity to follow rules,
1:49.0	human capacity to think of their actions and modern conduct as meaningful,
1:57.0	human capacity for emotions and feelings, etc.
2:00.0	So it is just a tool that we use, that can be usefully used,
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