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: Land of a Billion Faces (Encore)
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 series …
00:21:32 |
Wed 26 May 2021
In Machines We Trust: Can AI fix your credit?
Credit scores have been used for decades to assess consumer creditworthiness, but their scope is far greater now that they are powered by algorithms: not only do they consider vastly more data, in bo…
00:19:22 |
Wed 12 May 2021
In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking machines we’ve been musing about for decades. In t…
00:28:37 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
In Machines We Trust: What’s AI doing in your wallet?
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 groceries, or…
00:19:21 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
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 …
00:22:57 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
In Machines We Trust: We're back with a new season!
Host Jennifer Strong and MIT Technology Review’s editors explore what it means to entrust AI with our most sensitive decisions.
00:04:10 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
In Machines We Trust: Attention Shoppers: You’re Being Tracked
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…
00:28:50 |
Sat 19 Dec 2020
In Machines We Trust: Timnit Gebru Tells Her Story
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 Gebru
Find mo…
00:21:57 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
In Machines We Trust: Your Face Could Be Your Ticket
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 M…
00:21:49 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
In Machines We Trust: No Face... No Service
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 criti…
00:24:10 |
Wed 02 Dec 2020
In Machines We Trust: When the Camera Turns on Police
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 wa…
00:17:58 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
In Machines We Trust: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera (Encore)
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 Ameri…
00:25:08 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
In Machines We Trust: Twitter's CTO on Misinformation (Live)
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 o…
00:25:15 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
In Machines We Trust: Facebook's CTO on Misinformation (Live)
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 false …
00:19:22 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
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 Reporter Karen Hao creat…
00:09:00 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
In Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?
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, Jennife…
00:24:38 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
In Machines We Trust: What’s Behind a Smile
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…
00:27:02 |
Wed 23 Sep 2020
In Machines We Trust: AI in the Driver’s Seat
Automated driving is advancing all the time, but there’s still a critical missing ingredient: trust. Host Jennifer Strong meets engineers building a new language of communication between automated ve…
00:23:49 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
In Machines We Trust: Down and Dirty with Covid Genes
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. Join…
00:22:07 |
Wed 26 Aug 2020
In Machines We Trust: When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong
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 Review explore the arrest of a man who was falsely…
00:19:11 |
Wed 12 Aug 2020
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