Morality in the 21st Century Folgen

In this episode, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks to Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder and Head of Applied AI at DeepMind – one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence – who explores what he sees as the biggest moral questions around AI.Producer: Dan Tierney Series Editor: Christine Morgan

AI is already fundamentally transforming our world, and in the coming years will have an enormous impact on almost every aspect of our lives. So the ethical questions surrounding its development are urgent and important. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks argues that we must always be able to choose our fate, in the full dignity of responsibility, never forgetting that machines were made to serve human beings, not the other way around.Contributors: Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder and Head of Applied AI at DeepMind; Nick Bostrom, Philosophy Professor at the University of Oxford; Students from Queens' School in Hertfordshire.Producer: Dan Tierney Series Editor: Christine Morgan

In this episode, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks travels to Harvard University to speak to the political scientist Robert Putnam about what we mean by ‘society’, starting with a discussion about his seminal book, ‘Bowling Alone’, in which he described the loss of what sociologists call ‘social capital’ – the benefits we get from our social networks.Producer: Dan Tierney Series Editor: Christine Morgan