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Portfolio and musings of Ben Byford
Games Designer, developer
& AI ethics consultant
Ben is a podcaster for the Machine Ethics Podcast and Ethical by Design Artificial Intelligence consultant. He makes games with his company Nuclear Candy Games.
Ben has taught data science, design & coding with Cambridge Spark, Decoded and Ada College. He's worked on web, games, ML and app projects, and even run his own co-working space. He's an avid maker and thinker of creative technological... stuff.
Recent works and articles:
Mandrake game website
work Design, Web, Website, Processwire
Webdesign and development for Mandrake game website
ML for Impress
work Games, AI, Web
Working on ML model training and data pipelines for Impress indie game marketing toolkit service
A Wizard's Wool - 3D adventure game
work 3D, Games, Design, Development, C#
Our first game in development at Nuclear Candy Games
Playdate game for GMTKjam2024
experiment Development, Games
First game for the playdate made for GMTKjam2024
UI & animation on Unity game Date Everything
work Games, UI, Unity3D
Development on new dating sim game
Environmental Practices for the Games Industry
article Eco, Development, Article, Games
Recommendations for anyone working in the games industry to reduce carbon and promote environmental practises.
What is ethics?
article Ethics, AI, Essay, Philosophy, Article
An article about ethics in the abstract, the point of it and how we can use it for better futures.
Talks and workshops:
Book me for your talk, workshop, podcast, or to MC on subjects: AI ethics, games ethics, data science, games design, computer science, or web design.
2025
- June - Private talk - AI ethics, Wellness and safeguarding
- May - What's Wrong With podcast
- May - AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference - MC'ing round table on future of AI
- April - BGH AI in Game Development - Hype, Hope, Help or Hell? - Round table
- March - AI Ethics talk at GDST High School, London
- Feb - Games, AI and Ethics - LIVE! Talk at Disneyland Paris
2024
- Dec - AI, Ethics and games - GenAI in gaming for Gosu academy
- Oct - AWW game post postmortem - Bristol Unity Meetup
- Sep - Games Ethics talk for Tech Ethics Bristol
- Jun - Interview with a Games Director with DBS Institute
- Jun - AI Geeks podcast - Ben Byford: AI Safety, Ethics, Apple Intelligence and Society
- May - AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference - MC for XAI panel
- Feb - Computing LIVE! Talk at Disneyland Paris
2023
- Nov - Solutions From The Multiverse Podcast - Interview
- June - SJS (internal) - AI, Generative AI and Ethics workshop
2022
- Oct - Bristol Games Hub lightening talks - Environmental practises for the Games Industry
- Oct - Manchester University - Algorithmic Bias and Fairness sandpit talk
- Feb - Evolution of AI Ethics - Tech Ethics London
More past talks and workshops listed here.
Some publically recorded talks:
Clients include:
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