MIT Technology Review Narrated
Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share one of our most ambitious stories, from print and online, narrated for us by real voice actors. Expect big themes, thought-provoking topics, and sharp analysis, all backed by our trusted reporting.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 144
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
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 global…
00:27:27 |
Mon 14 Aug 2023
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
Hidden away in our voices are signals that may hold clues to how we’re doing, what we’re feeling and even what’s going on with our physical health. Now, AI systems tasked with analyzing these signals…
00:32:46 |
Wed 17 May 2023
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future with AI and satellites (Encore)
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 second installment of our series on agriculture, AI…
00:20:58 |
Wed 10 May 2023
In Machines We Trust: A conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Live)
In this special episode we bring you a live taping between the "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton and MIT Technology Review's Senior Editor for AI Will Douglas Heaven. This conversation was recorded a…
00:40:11 |
Sat 06 May 2023
In Machines We Trust: The Chip War (Live)
This episode, we get an insider's look at the ongoing chip war from the person who wrote the book on it, Chris Miller, professor at Tufts University and the author of Chip War. Join us for a live con…
00:21:43 |
Wed 03 May 2023
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI reached a crossroads
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 moments in artificial intelligence and computing ha…
00:13:45 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
In Machines We Trust: When AI watches the streets
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 tools might mean for privacy. In this episode, we meet a…
00:27:11 |
Wed 19 Apr 2023
In Machines We Trust: Concerning AI ethics
The best definitions of AI are vague, largely lack consensus and represent a huge challenge for lawmakers and legal scholars looking to regulate it. But back to back breakthroughs and rapid adoption …
00:21:21 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
In Machines We Trust: Generating creativity
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 order to be both useful and fair to artists.
We…
00:18:46 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
In Machines We Trust: AI births digital humans (Encore)
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!
Digital twins of humans capture the physical look…
00:19:43 |
Wed 29 Mar 2023
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Robots Learned to Run
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 moments in artificial intelligence and computing ha…
00:16:15 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder
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, and …
00:22:24 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
In Machines We Trust: In the cockpit with AI
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 trust them, but figuring out just how, when and why re…
00:27:05 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
In Machines We Trust: Who watches AI watching students?
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' digital lives and flag keywords that may be consid…
00:21:50 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
In Machines We Trust: AI enters the dogfight
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 the program that got it there and what this milest…
00:20:21 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
In Machines We Trust: Aging with robots
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 State Office for the Aging
Marie Defrancesco
Credit…
00:22:49 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
In Machines We Trust: The AI in the newsroom
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 like ChatGPT in newsrooms. The host explained that C…
00:18:58 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
In Machines We Trust: Automating Agriculture (Live)
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 one of the world's largest tech conferences, Web S…
00:19:23 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
In Machines We Trust: House training a robot
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 uncovered how sensitive photos taken by an AI powered va…
00:16:35 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
In Machines We Trust: How to test a satellite (Audio Postcard)
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 part of this reporting we also toured a satellite f…
00:14:50 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
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