Machines Like Us

A podcast by The Globe and Mail - Tuesdays

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90 Episodes

  1. Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back.

    Published: 2/25/2025
  2. New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think

    Published: 2/11/2025
  3. A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI

    Published: 1/28/2025
  4. Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them

    Published: 1/20/2025
  5. This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death

    Published: 1/14/2025
  6. Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak

    Published: 12/31/2024
  7. AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?

    Published: 12/17/2024
  8. How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination

    Published: 12/3/2024
  9. Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI

    Published: 11/19/2024
  10. Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online

    Published: 11/5/2024
  11. Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election

    Published: 10/22/2024
  12. Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future

    Published: 10/8/2024
  13. Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.

    Published: 9/24/2024
  14. There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It.

    Published: 9/10/2024
  15. Gaza is a Window into the Future of War

    Published: 8/27/2024
  16. Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech

    Published: 8/13/2024
  17. How to Hack Democracy

    Published: 7/30/2024
  18. How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)

    Published: 7/16/2024
  19. Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI

    Published: 7/2/2024
  20. The Real World Cost of AI

    Published: 6/18/2024

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Machines Like Us is a technology show about people. We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter. Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future. He’ll speak with entrepreneurs building world-changing technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure they’re safe, and journalists and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.