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In Machines We Trust: When AI watches the streets
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The term ‘smart city’ paints a picture of a tech-enabled oasis—powered by sensors of all kinds. But we’re starting to recognize what all these...
In Machines We Trust: Concerning AI ethics
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The best definitions of AI are vague, largely lack consensus and represent a huge challenge for lawmakers and legal scholars looking to regulate it. B...
In Machines We Trust: Generating creativity
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we meet people building next generation tools for creativity who are thinking about how these AI models should be trained and deployed in...
In Machines We Trust: AI births digital humans (Encore)
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're so excited this episode has been selected as a New York Festivals finalist! Please enjoy this encore edition and we'll see you back next week! ...
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Robots Learned to Run
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 and watershed ...
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
In Machines We Trust: In the cockpit with AI
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How we train fighter pilots—both real and artificial—is undergoing a series of rapid changes. In order for these systems to be useful we need to t...
In Machines We Trust: Who watches AI watching students?
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A boy wrote about his suicide attempt. He didn’t realize his school's software was watching. While schools commonly use AI to sift through students'...
In Machines We Trust: AI enters the dogfight
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Late last year the US Department of Defense successfully ran a dozen flight tests in which AI agents piloted an experimental fighter jet. We explore t...
In Machines We Trust: Aging with robots
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A look at how artificial intelligence is starting to be used to support the elderly. We Meet: Dor Skuler, Intuition Robotics Greg Olsen, New York Sta...
In Machines We Trust: The AI in the newsroom
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We asked ChatGPT to summarize this episode and this is what it wrote: "In the episode, the host discussed the increasing use of AI language models lik...
In Machines We Trust: Automating Agriculture (Live)
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined on stage by two startup founders working to bring automation to smaller scale farms. A live conversation from Lisbon, Portugal taped at o...
In Machines We Trust: House training a robot
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? This episode we go behind the scenes of an investigation that uncover...
In Machines We Trust: How to test a satellite (Audio Postcard)
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our reporting about farming, AI and satellites turned into three episodes of this podcast, which you can find linked here in the show notes, and as p...
In Machines We Trust: Exploring AI's evolution (Live)
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A panel of luminaries join us live on stage at MIT Technology Review’s flagship conference, EmTech MIT, and discuss the path forward for AI research...
In Machines We Trust: How games teach AI to learn for itself (Update)
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future with AI and satellites
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AI is used in farming in some ways you might not expect, like for tracking the health of crops—from space. We travel from test farms to labs in the ...
In Machines We Trust: The future of farming lies in space
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AI is used in agriculture to precisely target weeds and optimize irrigation practices. It’s also being used in ways you might not expect, like for t...
In Machines We Trust: Optimizing for convenience
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in the middle of another major disruption in retail—one that’s been accelerated by the pandemic, and looks to take the convenience of e-co...
In Machines We Trust: When Your Face is Your Ticket (Encore)
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 faci...
In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms learn to collude (Update)
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according to current market conditions in order to increas...
In Machines We Trust: Want a job? The AI will see you now. (Encore)
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. Th...
In Machines We Trust: Farming a war zone
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shortages of everything from seeds to fertilizer might accelerate the adoption of technologies that can help supplies go further in war-torn Ukraine. ...
In Machines We Trust: What’s next for space research? (Live)
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The International Space Station hosts scores of experiments that can’t be done on Earth. But it’s also showing its age—with repairs and safety c...
In Machines We Trust: Decoding a future of fire
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A look at how AI and other tech is being used to help predict, detect, and pinpoint the location of wildfires in the second of a two-part series. We ...
In Machines We Trust: How AI watches wildfires
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A look at how AI and other tech is being used to help predict, detect, and pinpoint the location of wildfires in the first of a two-part series. We m...
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI replicated Darth Vader
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 and watershed ...
In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking...
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI mastered chess
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 and watershed ...
In Machines We Trust: Seeing double: AI births digital humans
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Digital twins of humans capture the physical look and expressions of real humans. Increasingly these replicas are showing up in the entertainment indu...
In Machines We Trust: Real-Time Farming (Audio Postcard)
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who wants to take a walk around a California vineyard to explore how it’s deploying sensors and other forms of AI? Join us for a field trip as we do...
In Machines We Trust: How retail is using AI to prevent fraud
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Retailers face an evolving landscape of fraud tactics each day. It’s why companies are increasingly turning to AI to try and catch threat patterns n...
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI helped create a vaccine
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 and watershed ...
In Machines We Trust: How to craft effective AI policy (Live)
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation about equity and what it takes to make effective AI policy taped before a live audience at MIT Technology Review’s annual AI conferen...
In Machines We Trust: Can AI keep guns out of schools?
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amid a growing epidemic of gun violence, can AI be part of the solution? In this episode we look at some of the weapons detection technologies schools...
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI became the DJ
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 and watershed ...
In Machines We Trust: Who watches AI watching students?
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A boy wrote about his suicide attempt. He didn’t realize his school's software was watching. While schools commonly use AI to sift through students'...
In Machines We Trust: When an algorithm gets it wrong (Encore)
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The team that brings you In Machines We Trust has much to be grateful for—a brand new season of this show, a big awards nomination for The Extortion...
Welcome to Curious Coincidence
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a detective story that’s unsolved. Hosted by investigative reporter Antonio Regalado, Curious Coincidence dives into the mysterious origins ...
Welcome to The Extortion Economy
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ab...
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder (Encore)
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
In Machines We Trust: What’s behind a smile (Encore)
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In Machines We Trust: Attention shoppers, you’re being tracked (Update)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cameras in stores aren’t anything new—but these days there are AI brains behind the electric eyes. In some stores, sophisticated systems are track...
In Machines We Trust: How AI is giving a woman back her voice
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
In Machines We Trust: What is AI? We made this to help.
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 T...
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Facebook put profit over safety
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms learn to collude
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according to current market conditions in order to increas...
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Face recognition was commercialized
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
In Machines We Trust: How games teach AI to learn for itself
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
In Machines We Trust: Beating the AI hiring machines
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 con...
In Machines We Trust: Playing the job market
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In Machines We Trust: Want a job? The AI will see you now.
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. Th...
In Machines We Trust: Hired by an algorithm
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 la...
In Machines We Trust: When AI becomes childsplay
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite their popularity with kids, tablets and other connected devices are built on top of systems that weren’t designed for them to easily underst...
In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces (Encore)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In Machines We Trust: Can AI fix your credit?
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Credit scores have been used for decades to assess consumer creditworthiness, but their scope is far greater now that they are powered by algorithms: ...
In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking...
In Machines We Trust: What’s AI doing in your wallet?
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 othe...
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
In Machines We Trust: We're back with a new season!
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Host Jennifer Strong and MIT Technology Review’s editors explore what it means to entrust AI with our most sensitive decisions.
In Machines We Trust: Attention Shoppers: You’re Being Tracked
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cameras in stores aren’t anything new—but these days there are AI brains behind the electric eyes. In some stores, sophisticated systems are track...
In Machines We Trust: Timnit Gebru Tells Her Story
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
In Machines We Trust: Your Face Could Be Your Ticket
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 faci...
In Machines We Trust: No Face... No Service
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Facial recognition technology is being deployed in housing projects, homeless shelters, schools, even across entire cities—usually without much fanf...
In Machines We Trust: When the Camera Turns on Police
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
In Machines We Trust: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera (Encore)
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
In Machines We Trust: Twitter's CTO on Misinformation (Live)
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of two exclusive interviews, Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield sat down with Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s Chief Techn...
In Machines We Trust: Facebook's CTO on Misinformation (Live)
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Misinformation and social media have become inseparable from one another; as platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown to globe-spanning size, so...
In Machines We Trust: What is AI? We Made This to Help.
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 T...
In Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 nex...
In Machines We Trust: What’s Behind a Smile
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In Machines We Trust: AI in the Driver’s Seat
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Automated driving is advancing all the time, but there’s still a critical missing ingredient: trust. Host Jennifer Strong meets engineers building a...
In Machines We Trust: Down and Dirty with Covid Genes
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 lo...
In Machines We Trust: When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong? In the first of a four-part series on face recognition, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology R...
In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In Machines We Trust: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, whi...
In Machines We Trust: Who Owns Your Face?
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Coming August 12th
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a podcast about the automation of everything. Host Jennifer Strong and MIT Technology Review’s editors explore what it means to entrust A...