More AI this week! Also responsibility and conceptual engineering. Really enjoyed this conversation with @ftollon.bsky.social and @enricogalvagni.bsky.social.

Great conversation with Tareeq Jalloh available now!

Should pornography be authentic? Some people think so, and partly because they think this would make it better ethically rather than just, well, better. Rosa Vince disagrees!

New paper with Georgie Mills: The Ethics of Cancelling. We argue that cancelling covers a range of moral practices. It is not always punishment, it can instead involve correcting reputations, ending parasocial relationships or relationships of informal representation. Read more here: rdcu.be/e4jay

Really enjoyable conversation in today's episode with @lisamherzog.bsky.social, on a topic which is important and pressing in all sorts of ways....

Really pleased to say Tareeq is a guest on an episode we have coming soon!

Feels like a good time to be releasing this episode featuring Jeffrey Howard of @uclspeechlab.bsky.social. How should social media platforms regulate AI-Generated Content? (Spoiler: it's not by allowing people to use AI to create non-consensual sexualised images.) www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Is being more politically active on your list of resolutions this year? Today's episode of Ethics Untangled features Josh Hobbs of Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied asking the question, should we all be activists? www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Check out Josh's excellent piece for the Conversation on the same topic as this week's podcast here: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

Is being more politically active on your list of resolutions this year? Today's episode of Ethics Untangled features Josh Hobbs of Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied asking the question, should we all be activists? www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

The New Yorker has (rightly!) listed Death in a Shallow Pond - the subject of my discussion with @davidedmonds100.bsky.social on the latest Ethics Untangled episode - as one of the best books of 2025. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

Shallow Pond is on Ethics Untangled. Thanks to Jim Baxter and the Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds @princetonupress.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

A great, wide-ranging conversation with davidedmonds100.bsky.social on today's Ethics Untangled.

And when I say 'Simon Meisch', I do of course mean bsky.app/profile/simo...

Ethics Untangled Episode 50 is out today! What can comics such as Heartstopper teach us about ethics? With Simon Meisch www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Great blog post by IDEA's Matilda Carter on Power, Status and the Dementia Care Relationship. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/powe...

New episode this morning with the fantasic Catriona McKinnon, highlighting a point in environmental ethics that has gone under-, or even unappreciated.

Today's podcast is connected to the work we've been doing with the Law Society on the Ethics of In-House Law. Sharon Bridgalsingh is a hugely articulate and insightful voice in the profession and it was great to speak to her about some of the issues and challenges in-house lawyers face.

Ethics Untangled guest Christina Nick's paper on whether politicians with dirty hands owe reparations to victims has been published. If you've got access, you can read it here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi.... The ep (no. 15) is here: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis... Congrats Christina!

Great conversation on today's Ethics Untangled podcast with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and Georgie Mills. What is cancelling? What different forms can it take? What are its effects? Who is responsible for those effects? What does all this mean for how we should interact with others online?

Here's a clip of Robbie and me chatting about emotional labour...

Words change their meanings all the time, but what if losing the old meaning means we lose the ability to say something important? Fascinating chat with IDEA's Robbie Morgan here: ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Orla Carlin issues a challenge to academics on the latest Ethics Untangled here: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

🎉 What a lovely way to celebrate my first day at Exeter! This fun conversation with Jim Baxter @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social about a paper my now-colleague @joelkrueger.com and I wrote on AI Gossip is now up! In the podcast we discuss how AI systems might engage in gossip-like behaviour 🙊

Happy September everyone. We're back with a conversation about one of the weirder, more unexpectred and potentially more problematic things that large language models can apparently do - gossip. www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

The Future of Practical Ethics IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds 8th - 10th September 2025 Keynote Speakers: • Clare Chambers (Cambridge) • Helen Frowe (Stockholm) • Elselijn Kingma (KCL) REGISTRATION NOW OPEN conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...

Another fascinating conversation this week with Adam Byfield from NHS England. We get a bit more into the weeds in this one, discussing in more detail how to provide ethical assurance for AI applications, specifically in terms of bias and accessibility. www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Are you working on sexualisation or objectification? Come share your research at our December workshop!

The Future of Practical Ethics conference - part of @idea-leeds.bsky.social's 20th anniversary celebrations - is happening on 8-10 September. It will be good and you should come to it if you are at all interested in practical ethics, i.e. if you are a human. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...

News article here about @lisabortolotti.com's fantastic project and, less importantly, her Ethics Untangled interview about it! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/su...

New podcast out today featuring @lisabortolotti.com, a brilliant philosopher discussing a great interdisciplinary project with a very practical intent: improving the way clinicians communicate with young people experiencing mental health difficulties. ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

New podcast out today featuring @lisabortolotti.com, a brilliant philosopher discussing a great interdisciplinary project with a very practical intent: improving the way clinicians communicate with young people experiencing mental health difficulties. ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

It's trust in the media week at IDEA! Great chat with Tim Watkin on the podcast (see below) and our public event with Gavin Essler tomorrow night. Book your free place here: www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/e...

Joe Fogarty has spent over 30 years working in national security and law enforcement, in the UK and elsewhere. He's currently working on cyber-security risks and organised crime for the UK's central government, as the Head of the Government's Cyber Resilience Centre.

This week's podcast features Joe Fogarty, who a) works on cyber-security risks and organised crime as the Head of the Government's Cyber Resilience Centre, and b) has been studying moral philosophy with us here at IDEA The Ethics Centre (@idea-leeds.bsky.social). www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

New episode out today, in which Josh Hobbs and Luke Ulas give me their thoughts on cosmopolitanism. What is it? Should we be cosmopolitans? Does anyone want to be a cosmopolitan? What might make want to be a cosmopolitan? ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Reminder about this week's Ethics Untangled episode.

Looking forward to this year's Mangoletsi-Potts lectures. More info below...

What is relationship anarchy and how can this approach to intimacy learn from political anarchy? Listen to @lukebrunning.bsky.social and @nmckeever3.bsky.social discuss on the new @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social episode: ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Love being told by YouTube that your content violates their policies, without any explanation of which policy has been violated, and how. Also really enjoyed the appeals process, where you get to click a button and be told that your appeal has been denied, again without any explanation.

New episode out today! Simon Kirchin considers whether drag is offensive to women. www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Hi, hope you're all having excellent Wednesdays. Just popping up at the midpoint of the week to announce that Ethics Untangled is now available on YouTube, here: www.youtube.com/@ethicsuntan.... So if listening to audio podcasts through a video site is your thing - and why wouldn't it be? - enjoy!

Lovely to see this! Featuring Simon Kirchin, head of @idea-leeds.bsky.social

As part of British Philosophy Fortnight I’ll be talking about my project exploring the ethics of dating apps. #philosophymatters #philfortnight2025

We are old! And we're having a conference!

Another timely discussion this week. Carl Fox, from IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds, discussing the different forms of disruptive speech and what we should do about them.

Today's Ethics Untangled episode features Trystan Goetze (@errantcanadian.com) talking about whether AI art is stealing artists' labour: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Great conversation this week with Merten Reglitz about Internet access as a human right.

Our latest episode is with Simon Cassin, a serious thinker about the ethics of health and safety. Hope you enjoy. Let us know your thoughts about the topic, and please leave us a review if you can. ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Our current episode features Natasha McKeever asking why sex work is so gendered. I.e., why are people who get paid for sex mostly women, why are people who pay for sex mostly men, and why is by far the most common scenario in sex work a man paying a woman for sex? www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...