Machines Like Us
A podcast by The Globe and Mail - Tuesdays

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90 Episodes
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Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back.
Published: 2/25/2025 -
New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think
Published: 2/11/2025 -
A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI
Published: 1/28/2025 -
Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them
Published: 1/20/2025 -
This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death
Published: 1/14/2025 -
Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak
Published: 12/31/2024 -
AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?
Published: 12/17/2024 -
How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination
Published: 12/3/2024 -
Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI
Published: 11/19/2024 -
Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online
Published: 11/5/2024 -
Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election
Published: 10/22/2024 -
Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future
Published: 10/8/2024 -
Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.
Published: 9/24/2024 -
There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It.
Published: 9/10/2024 -
Gaza is a Window into the Future of War
Published: 8/27/2024 -
Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech
Published: 8/13/2024 -
How to Hack Democracy
Published: 7/30/2024 -
How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)
Published: 7/16/2024 -
Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI
Published: 7/2/2024 -
The Real World Cost of AI
Published: 6/18/2024
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.