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: Can AI keep guns out of schools?
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 are using in an effort to try to keep students s…
00:19:26 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI became the DJ
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…
00:12:52 |
Wed 13 Jul 2022
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…
00:22:27 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
In Machines We Trust: When an algorithm gets it wrong (Encore)
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 Economy, a show about ransomware that we made with…
00:20:37 |
Wed 16 Mar 2022
Welcome to Curious Coincidence
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, t…
00:04:26 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
Welcome to The Extortion Economy
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 ProPubl…
00:23:20 |
Wed 02 Feb 2022
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder (Encore)
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 …
00:22:37 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
In Machines We Trust: What’s behind a smile (Encore)
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 stopp…
00:24:27 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
In Machines We Trust: Attention shoppers, you’re being tracked (Update)
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 re…
00:27:08 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
In Machines We Trust: How AI is giving a woman back her voice
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 recor…
00:22:51 |
Wed 08 Dec 2021
In Machines We Trust: What is AI? We made this to help.
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 Editor Karen Hao created…
00:07:01 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Facebook put profit over safety
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 s…
00:14:39 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms learn to collude
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 pric…
00:25:18 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Face recognition was commercialized
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 the…
00:13:07 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
In Machines We Trust: How games teach AI to learn for itself
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 an…
00:27:02 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
In Machines We Trust: Beating the AI hiring machines
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 look …
00:31:00 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
In Machines We Trust: Playing the job market
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 hiring,…
00:37:15 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
In Machines We Trust: Want a job? The AI will see you now.
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 si…
00:30:05 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
In Machines We Trust: Hired by an algorithm
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-par…
00:33:32 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
In Machines We Trust: When AI becomes childsplay
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 wi…
00:22:04 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
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