{"podcast":{"title":"A Beginner's Guide to AI","slug":"a-beginner-s-guide-to-ai-6564486","podcast_index_feed_id":6564486,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6953b9ead0c0aeaf12bcbd70","website_url":"https://beginnersguideto.ai","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6953b9ead0c0aeaf12bcbd70/1775937040655-f9bd5912-90a1-4b94-94d9-74b2e0c1f73a.jpeg","author":"Dietmar Fischer","episode_count":377,"summary":"\" A Beginner's Guide to AI \" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each episode either asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you or it explains an important concept/idea. Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us and learn everything you need to know on how to use AI in the best way 🚀 🎙️ About The Host, Dietmar Fischer Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T20:18:22.078758+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-beginner-s-guide-to-ai-6564486"},"episode":{"title":"Why Asimov’s Three Laws Still Matter for AI Ethics","slug":"why-asimov-s-three-laws-still-matter-for-ai-ethics","published_at":"2026-06-07T20:41:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-beginner-s-guide-to-ai-6564486/why-asimov-s-three-laws-still-matter-for-ai-ethics","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-beginner-s-guide-to-ai-6564486","url":"https://shows.acast.com/beginners-guide-to-ai/episodes/why-asimovs-three-laws-still-matter-for-ai-ethics","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6953b9ead0c0aeaf12bcbd70/e/6a25d355ccc3ddbc7423056e/media.mp3","summary":"🤖📚 The Robot Followed the Rules. That Was the Problem. What if the real danger of AI is not that it disobeys us, but that it obeys us too well? In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , we travel back to Isaac Asimov’s famous robot stories and the Three Laws of Robotics to understand one of the oldest and still most relevant questions in artificial intelligence: how do we keep intelligent machines safe, useful, and accountable when they start acting in the real world? Asimov’s Three Laws sound beautifully simple: robots should not harm humans, they should obey humans, and they should protect themselves. But Asimov’s real genius was not that he solved AI ethics. His genius was that he showed why simple rules are never enough. Human values are messy. Instructions are incomplete. Goals can be badly defined. And a machine can follow the rules while still creating a very human disaster. 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ beginnersguide.nl ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📧💌📧 This episode connects Asimov’s robot stories to modern AI ethics, AI safety, responsible AI, AI governance, human oversight, transparency, accountability, and AI alignment. We look at why businesses should not only ask what AI can do, but what could go wrong if AI does exactly what it was told to do. We also look at the real-world case of Microsoft Tay, the AI chatbot released in 2016 that was quickly manipulated by online users and taken offline after producing offensive content. Tay remains one of the clearest examples of chatbot ethics, AI misuse, and AI brand risk. It reminds us that AI systems must be designed for the humans who actually exist, not the polite humans imagined in product meetings. 💡…","meta_description":"🤖📚 The Robot Followed the Rules. That Was the Problem. What if the real danger of AI is not that it disobeys us, but that it obeys us too well? In this ep…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2806,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-beginner-s-guide-to-ai-6564486/episodes/why-asimov-s-three-laws-still-matter-for-ai-ethics/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-beginner-s-guide-to-ai-6564486/why-asimov-s-three-laws-still-matter-for-ai-ethics.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}