Editor’s note: This article has been faithfully transcribed from the original interview filmed with the author, and carefully edited and proofread. Edit date: 2025
Making sense of AI
AI is powerful and has the potential to expand our potential and limit our experiences. Who decides when machines decide?
A collection of short documentaries
09 Mar 2026
Key Points
- AI is not a moral agent and responsibility for its actions must remain entirely human.
- AI tools require constant scrutiny—their assumptions, fairness, biases and performance must be evaluated rigorously.
- AI can vastly improve medical diagnosis and research, but only if datasets are representative and ethically managed.
- Making Sense of AI offers a clear and accessible introduction to artificial intelligence, stripping away myths to reveal what AI truly is—and what it is not.
Making sense of AI
This EXP short documentary, “Making sense of AI”, explores artificial intelligence and why ethics cannot, and should not, be delegated to machines. As algorithms shape mortgages, medical diagnoses and everyday decisions, here experts ask where responsibility truly lies. Powerful systems impact our world, built from human choices, human values and human data. Training on the past risks repeating its injustices. From medicine to finance, “Technology” shows both the promise and the danger of letting machines decide. Looking past the hype, experts ask harder questions about fairness, accountability and care. What kind of society are we building when we let technology act for us? How do we keep responsibility where it belongs?
Featuring Luciano Floridi, David Spiegelhalter, Stephen Fleming, Carola Schönlieb, Emily Jackson and Sarah Newman
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