Machines Like Us
A podcast by The Globe and Mail - Tuesdays
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81 Episodes
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Jameel Jaffer on Free Speech in the Digital Era
Published: 8/5/2021 -
Geoffrey Cain on China’s Dystopian Surveillance State
Published: 7/22/2021 -
Hong Shen on How Tech Really Works behind the Great Firewall
Published: 7/8/2021 -
Victor Pickard on the Future of Journalism
Published: 6/24/2021 -
Pranav Dixit on Modi’s Moves to Manipulate Platforms
Published: 6/10/2021 -
Kate Crawford on the Toll AI Is Taking on Humans and the Planet
Published: 5/27/2021 -
Eliot Higgins on Citizen Journalists' New Form of Intelligence Gathering
Published: 5/13/2021 -
Ethan Zuckerman on Why Institutional Failure Can Spur Positive Change
Published: 4/29/2021 -
Naomi Klein on Entering the Tech Governance Debate
Published: 4/15/2021 -
Nicole Perlroth on the Cyber Weapons Arms Race
Published: 4/1/2021 -
Mutale Nkonde on How Biased Tech Design and Racial Disparity Intersect
Published: 3/18/2021 -
Rod Sims on Australia’s New Law to Rebalance Media Power
Published: 3/1/2021 -
Bishop Steven Croft on Keeping Humanity at the Centre of New Technology
Published: 2/18/2021 -
Lana Swartz on the Power of Payment Platforms
Published: 2/4/2021 -
Joan Donovan on How Platforms Enabled the Capitol Hill Riot
Published: 1/21/2021 -
Beeban Kidron on Why Children Need a Safer Internet
Published: 1/7/2021 -
Ron Deibert on Resetting Our Relationship with Technology
Published: 12/22/2020 -
Heidi J. Larson on the Root Causes of Vaccine Hesitancy
Published: 12/10/2020 -
Cory Doctorow on the True Dangers of Surveillance Capitalism
Published: 11/26/2020 -
Everybody Cares about Democracy and Technology: David and Taylor Look at the State of Big Tech Governance
Published: 8/27/2020
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.