Machines Like Us
49 episodes
We Can Now Bet on Almost Anything. Should We?
Jun 23, 202652 min
Social Media Bans Are Wildly Popular. They Might Also Be a Mistake.
Jun 9, 202658 min
Animals are Talking to Each Other. Can AI Help Us Understand Them?
May 5, 202642 min
Does 21st Century Politics Still Need Politicians?
Apr 21, 202644 min
Michael Pollan Says AI Isn’t Conscious – But Plants Might Be
Apr 7, 202640 min
Why Did We Stop Talking About The AI Apocalypse?
Mar 24, 202646 min
In the Wake of Tumbler Ridge, Can We Trade Privacy for Safety?
Mar 10, 202646 min
When Did Common Sense AI Policy Become Radical?
Feb 24, 202637 min
Bonus: Inside the New Social Media Platform for AI Agents
Feb 12, 202625 min
The Future According to Gen Z
Feb 10, 202651 min
Is China Winning the Technological Arms Race?
Jan 27, 202655 min
Four Predictions on How AI Will Transform Your World This Year
Jan 13, 202659 min
The Man Behind the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
Dec 30, 202552 min
Wikipedia Won Our Trust. Can We Use That Model Everywhere?
Dec 16, 202544 min
Could an Alternative AI Save Us From a Bubble?
Dec 2, 202553 min
Can AI Lead Us to the Good Life?
Nov 18, 202551 min
How to Survive the “Broligarchy”
Nov 4, 202549 min
AI Music is Everywhere. Is it Legal?
Oct 21, 20251h 2m
Geoffrey Hinton vs. The End of the World
Oct 7, 20251h 9m
AI is Upending Higher Education. Is That a Bad Thing?
Sep 23, 202550 min
Jim Balsillie: ‘Canada’s Problem Isn’t Trump. Canada’s Problem Is Canada’
Apr 22, 20251h 9m
The Changing Face of Election Interference
Apr 8, 202538 min
How Do You Report the News in a Post-Truth World?
Mar 25, 202537 min
A Chinese Company Upended OpenAI. We May Be Looking at the Story All Wrong.
Mar 11, 202540 min
Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back.
Feb 25, 202530 min
New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think
Feb 11, 202536 min
A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI
Jan 28, 202549 min
Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them
Jan 20, 20251 min
This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death
Jan 14, 202548 min
Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak
Dec 31, 202426 min
AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?
Dec 17, 202435 min
How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination
Dec 3, 202445 min
Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI
Nov 19, 202434 min
Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online
Nov 5, 202434 min
Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election
Oct 22, 202432 min
Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future
Oct 8, 202438 min
Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.
Sep 24, 202441 min
There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It.
Sep 10, 202443 min
Gaza is a Window into the Future of War
Aug 27, 202441 min
Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech
Aug 13, 202442 min
How to Hack Democracy
Jul 30, 202436 min
How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)
Jul 16, 202438 min
Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI
Jul 2, 202444 min
The Real World Cost of AI
Jun 18, 202447 min
Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?
Jun 4, 202434 min
The Battle for Your Brain
May 21, 202439 min
Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness?
May 7, 202434 min
Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse.
May 7, 202444 min
Introducing Machines Like Us
Apr 29, 20242 min