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Host Jennifer Strong thoughtfully examines the far-reaching impact of artificial intelligence on our daily lives. Produced by MIT Technology Review, the podcast explores the rise of AI through the voices of people reckoning with the power of the technology, and by taking listeners up close with the inventors and founders whose ambitions are fueling the development of new forms of AI.
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That's a wrap! from 2023-08-14T15:08
Three years ago this week we launched this podcast on a mission to show the world how AI touches our everyday lives. It's been our great honor and privilege to make it through three seasons, a glob...
ListenWelcome to Curious Coincidence from 2022-02-16T11:42:42
This is a detective story that’s unsolved. Hosted by investigative reporter Antonio Regalado, Curious Coincidence dives into the mysterious origins of Covid-19 by examining the genome of the virus,...
ListenWelcome to The Extortion Economy from 2022-02-02T05:05
This week we're sharing another tech show we made that we think you're going to love. It's called The Extortion Economy and it's a five-part series about the ransomware epidemic produced with ProPu...
ListenEncore: The AI of the beholder from 2022-01-20T14:42:06
Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think.
Ideas about what constitutes “beauty” are complex, subjective...
Encore: Attention Shoppers, You’re Being Tracked from 2021-12-23T04:27
Cameras in stores aren’t anything new—but these days there are AI brains behind the electric eyes. In some stores, sophisticated systems are tracking customers in almost every imaginable way, from ...
ListenUpdate: Attention shoppers, you’re being tracked from 2021-12-23T04:27
Cameras in stores aren’t anything new—but these days there are AI brains behind the electric eyes. In some stores, sophisticated systems are tracking customers in almost every imaginable way, from ...
ListenHow AI is giving a woman back her voice from 2021-12-08T05:05
Voice technology is one of the biggest trends in the healthcare space. We look at how it might help care providers and patients, from a woman who is losing her speech, to documenting healthcare rec...
ListenI Was There When: Facebook put profit over safety from 2021-11-10T11:39:08
In this episode, we meet Sophie Zhang—a former data scientist at Facebook. Before she was fired, she had become consumed by the task of finding and taking down fake accounts that were being used to...
ListenHow pricing algorithms learn to collude from 2021-10-27T04:05
Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according to current market conditions in order to increase profits. The rise of ecommerce has propelled pr...
ListenI Was There When: Facial Recognition was Commercialized from 2021-10-13T04:30
I Was There When is an oral history project that's part of the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by t...
ListenHow games teach AI to learn for itself from 2021-09-29T04:06:11
From chess to Jeopardy to e-sports, AI is increasingly beating humans at their own games. But that was never the ultimate goal. In this episode we dig into the symbiotic relationship between games ...
ListenBeating the AI hiring machines from 2021-08-04T07:15
When it comes to hiring, it’s increasingly becoming an AI’s world, we’re just working in it. In this, the final episode of Season 2, and the conclusion of our series on AI and hiring, we take a loo...
ListenPlaying the job market from 2021-07-21T06:00
Increasingly, job seekers need to pass a series of ‘tests’ in the form of artificial intelligence games—just to be seen by a hiring manager. In this third, of a four-part miniseries on AI and hirin...
ListenWant a job? The AI will see you now. from 2021-07-07T07:18
In the past, hiring decisions were made by people. Today, some key decisions that lead to whether someone gets a job or not are made by algorithms. The use of AI-based job interviews has increased ...
ListenHired by an algorithm from 2021-06-23T05:00
If you’ve applied for a job lately, it’s all but guaranteed that your application was reviewed by software—in most cases, before a human ever laid eyes on it. In this episode, the first in a four-p...
ListenWhen AI Becomes Childsplay from 2021-06-09T06:00
Despite their popularity with kids, tablets and other connected devices are built on top of systems that weren’t designed for them to easily understand or navigate. Adapting algorithms to interact ...
ListenEncore: Land of a Billion Faces from 2021-05-26T05:00
Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your picture is probably in there (our host Jennifer Strong’s was). In the second of a four-part serie...
ListenWhat’s AI doing in your wallet? from 2021-04-14T06:00
Tech giants are moving into our wallets—bringing AI and big questions with them.
Our entire financial system is built on trust. We can exchange otherwise worthless paper bills for fresh groceri...
The AI of the beholder from 2021-03-31T04:33
Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think. Ideas about what constitutes “beauty” are complex, subjective, an...
ListenThe AI of the beholder from 2021-03-31T04:33
Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think. Ideas about what constitutes “beauty” are complex, subjective, an...
ListenWe're back with a new season! from 2021-03-24T05:00
Host Jennifer Strong and MIT Technology Review’s editors explore what it means to entrust AI with our most sensitive decisions.
ListenWhat is AI? We Made This to Help. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Defining what is, or isn’t artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes. That’s why MIT Technology Review’s Senior AI Reporter Karen Hao cre...
ListenAttention Shoppers: You’re Being Tracked from 2020-12-19T06:46
Cameras in stores aren’t anything new—but these days there are AI brains behind the electric eyes. In some stores, sophisticated systems are tracking customers in almost every imaginable way, from ...
ListenTimnit Gebru Tells Her Story from 2020-12-16T03:36
Two weeks after her forced exit, the AI ethics researcher reflects on her time at Google, how to increase corporate accountability, and the state of the AI field.
We meet:
Dr. Timnit ...
Your Face Could Be Your Ticket from 2020-12-09T03:59:32
Face mapping and other tracking systems are changing the sports experience in the stands and on the court. In part-three of this latest series on facial recognition, Jennifer Strong and the team at...
ListenNo Face... No Service from 2020-12-02T03:39:48
Facial recognition technology is being deployed in housing projects, homeless shelters, schools, even across entire cities—usually without much fanfare or discussion. To some, this represents a cri...
ListenWhen the Camera Turns on Police from 2020-11-18T04:11
Moves have been made to restrict the use of facial recognition across the globe. In part one of this series on face ID, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the unexpected ...
ListenEncore: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera from 2020-11-04T05:25
The use of facial recognition by police has come under a lot of scrutiny. In part three of our four-part series on face ID, host Jennifer Strong takes you to Sin City, which actually has one of Ame...
ListenEmTech Stage: Twitter's CTO on Misinformation from 2020-10-29T04:47
In the second of two exclusive interviews, Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield sat down with Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s Chief Technology officer to discuss the rise of misinformation...
ListenEmTech Stage: Facebook's CTO on Misinformation from 2020-10-29T04:09
Misinformation and social media have become inseparable from one another; as platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown to globe-spanning size, so too has the threat posed by the spread of fals...
ListenAI Reads Human Emotions. Should It? from 2020-10-07T01:39:26
AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next? In part two of a series on emotion AI, Jenni...
ListenWhat’s Behind a Smile from 2020-09-23T07:46:20
Researchers have spent years trying to crack the mystery of how we express our feelings. Pioneers in the field of emotion detection will tell you the problem is far from solved. But that hasn’t sto...
ListenDown and Dirty with Covid Genes from 2020-08-26T03:42
What weird bugs did you pick up last time you rode a subway train? A global network of scientists mapping the DNA of urban microbes and using AI to look for patterns pivots to tracking covid-19. Jo...
ListenLand of a Billion Faces from 2020-08-12T08:50
Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your picture is probably in there (our host Jennifer Strong’s was). In the second of a four-part serie...
ListenLand of a Billion Faces from 2020-08-12T08:50
Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your picture is probably in there (our host Jennifer Strong’s was). In the second of a four-part serie...
ListenWhat Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera from 2020-08-12T08:48
The use of facial recognition by police has come under a lot of scrutiny. In part-three of our series, host Jennifer Strong takes you to Sin City, which actually has one of America’s most buttoned-...
ListenWho Owns Your Face? from 2020-08-12T08:42
Police have a history of using face recognition to arrest protestors—something not lost on activists since the death of George Floyd. In the last of a four-part series on facial recognition, host J...
ListenWho Owns Your Face? from 2020-08-12T08:42
Police have a history of using face ID to arrest protestors—something not lost on activists since the death of George Floyd. In the last of a four-part series on facial recognition, host Jennifer S...
ListenWho Owns Your Face? from 2020-08-12T08:42
Police have a history of using face ID to arrest protestors—something not lost on activists since the death of George Floyd. In the last of a four-part series on facial recognition, host Jennifer S...
ListenComing August 12th from 2020-07-11T16:41
Welcome to a podcast about the automation of everything. Host Jennifer Strong and MIT Technology Review’s editors explore what it means to entrust AI with our most sensitive decisions.
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