Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2012-12 to 2026-09.
The people on the most episodes about this topic over the trailing three months, excluding their own shows — ordered by VoiceRank, their score across the whole corpus. The chart tracks each one’s episodes month by month.
Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Developers and companies must be held directly responsible for the ethical outcomes and transparency of the technologies they deploy.
5 people · 5 episodes
He advocates for holding AI company leaders accountable through legal measures, including prison time, for reckless experiments and security failures.
“It's time to start arresting people. Someone's got to go to prison.”
The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2026 · 1 episode · 4.1M views on this topicDevelopers hold moral responsibility for the potential harms and outcomes of the algorithms they create.
“I mean one of the things as people are still in the loop and at least in the near and midterm I think people will still be in the loop at some point even if it's a developer like we're not necessarily at the stage where you know robots are programming autonomous robots with different behavio”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2020 · 1 episode · 32K views on this topicIgor Hofman maintains that businesses should be transparent about their use of AI-generated avatars to avoid deceiving users and to ensure responsible engagement.
“our recommendation is not to fool people so right want we want to bring the effect of having the human interaction while still keeping people honest and and and making them aware that there are still speaking with AI generated um characters”
Asia Tech Podcast Official · Oct 2024 · 1 episode · 10K views on this topicHuman oversight is essential to navigate the ethical dilemmas of generative AI and address technical challenges like bias.
“I think important is to still have a human in the loop somewhere I think the much some of these technical problems and bias problems I think we're working on and we're solving a much bigger problem is how we use it ethic ethically in terms of what we're producing with it”
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn · Apr 2024 · 1 episode · 2K views on this topicTransparency is essential for enabling algorithmic appeals and remediability for users impacted by algorithmic decisions.
“transparency really opens the door for um algorithmic appeals for uh being able to basically either financially reward users if they are negatively impacted or specific groups are negatively impacted within all of your users so um i would say transparency is key”
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn · Mar 2021 · 1 episode · 327 views on this topicThe industrial use and exploitation of animals is morally indefensible and should be reduced or abolished due to inherent cruelty.
5 people · 5 episodes
Improving animal welfare standards is a necessary and practical step to reduce suffering while pursuing the long-term goal of abolishing animal exploitation.
“I don't believe that saying we're not going to work for improved Animal Welfare in factory farms is going to have better consequences on the contrary I think it's going to have clearly worse consequences”
Alex O'Connor · May 2023 · 7 episodes · 792K views on this topicCaptive dolphins kept in aquariums or show settings suffer immensely because they are deprived of natural sea environments and forced to perform tricks, which they find unbearable.
“they're not going to get it from the propaganda that the owner is telling everybody on the Chain all the way down to the trainers the pro because I was I was the head trainer at the Seaquarium I know how it works that you in order to be successful that trainer has to become a professional liar”
Danny Jones · Apr 2024 · 1 episode · 122K views on this topicHe believes that anyone who wants to eat meat should be required to kill an animal themselves to ensure they understand the process.
“I believe that anybody uh who wants to eat meat should have to be licensed to do so and to get that license you should have to kill at least one animal”
Steve-O's Wild Ride! - Podcast · Feb 2025 · 1 episode · 116K views on this topicThe mindset that facilitates human-on-human atrocities is identical to the one that allows for the exploitation of animals today.
“and that is the real question is what makes it possible for the citizens of one of the most enlightened nations in the world that that spawned the scores of prominent writers musicians poets philosophers what makes it for those people to commit such atrocities as were committed in the holocaust and ”
Alex O'Connor · Nov 2020 · 1 episode · 55K views on this topicThe industrial farming of animals is inherently cruel and morally incompatible with being a conscientious Christian.
“And what we're doing now in the animal industries is cruel. It is absolutely beyond anything that any conscious conscientious Christian would want to look at and be okay with.”
Love Covered Life Podcast · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 1K views on this topicIndividuals who possess the capacity to intervene and prevent foreseeable harm are morally responsible for the resulting negative outcomes.
3 people · 3 episodes
The speaker claims that an agent who possesses the power to intervene in a life-or-death situation but chooses not to act is responsible for the resulting outcome.
“If that would count for them as an answer to the trolley problem, allow the five people to die. It kind of counts as an answer for you too that you would allow those five people to die.”
Alex O'Connor · Oct 2025 · 17 episodes · 9.5M views on this topicHe claims he would have intervened to stop the Little Albert experiments if he had been present at the time.
“I would like to have been present at the Little Albert experiments. Ooh, these are some of the most controversial experiments in the history of science, Michael. >> Exactly. And I wouldn't have wanted to be there to be a part of it or to watch it happen. I would have just gone there to stop it.”
The Rest Is Science · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 399K views on this topicIndividuals who possess the power to prevent foreseeable harm and choose not to act are culpable for those outcomes.
“So, that's that's the real difference. People who have the power to do something and they choose not to do it they're they're part of the part of the problem as far as I can see.”
Culture, Faith, and Politics · May 2026 · 1 episode · 7K views on this topicCertain actions, such as lying or manipulating others, are intrinsically wrong regardless of context or potential utility.
2 people · 2 episodes
Stealing is morally wrong, regardless of the target's wealth or corporate status.
“No, it's not a slippery slope, it's just wrong.”
StevenCrowder · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 100K views on this topicLying is always morally wrong because it constitutes a frustration of the natural human communicative faculty.
“so natural law says that a fundamental part of who we are as human beings is communicative beings right and so this communicative power of ours this appetite of ours to communicate what's in our mind is part of it's constitutive of our happiness”
Majesty of Reason · Aug 2020 · 1 episode · 9K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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