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

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90 Episodes
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From the Beginnings of Fake News to the Capitol Riots
Published: 1/6/2022 -
Best of: Nicole Perlroth on the Cyber Weapons Arms Race
Published: 12/30/2021 -
Best of: Bishop Steven Croft on Keeping Humanity at the Centre of New Technology
Published: 12/23/2021 -
Catherine McKenna on Cutting through Online Hate to Have Meaningful Discussions on Climate Change
Published: 12/16/2021 -
Carissa Véliz on Why We Need to Take Back Control of Our Data
Published: 12/9/2021 -
How Peter Thiel’s Contrarianism Shaped Silicon Valley — and America
Published: 12/2/2021 -
C. Brandon Ogbunu on Afrofuturism as a Tech Framework
Published: 11/25/2021 -
Season 4 Begins Thursday, November 25
Published: 11/12/2021 -
Taylor Owen on Six Insights from Season Three
Published: 8/19/2021 -
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
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.