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The Minefield

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Weekly podcast. Next episode tomorrow.

In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.

237 episodes • 0 archived •

How do recommendation algorithms affect our sense of taste?

December 24

54 mins

AI and the cost to human life — with Karen Hao

December 17

54 mins

What can we learn about politics from Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s ‘Good and Bad Government’?

December 10

54 mins

The ethics of life-writing: Memoirs may be popular, but can they be truthful?

December 3

54 mins

What will we lose if translation becomes wholly automated?

November 26

54 mins

‘Adult time for violent crime’? What commitments should guide society’s response to youth crime?

November 19

54 mins

Will weight loss drugs entrench cultural expectations about body size?

November 12

54 mins

Is the experience of beauty slipping away in an age of frictionlessness, speed and AI slop?

November 5

54 mins

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